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This journal is one of over 25,000 physical resources available from the Resources Collection. The Archive Collection covers over 50 years of curriculum development in the STEM subjects. The Contemporary Collection includes the latest publications from UK educational publishers.

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This resource from SMILE Mathematics contains 20 activities for using spreadsheets to solve mathematical problems in the classroom, rather than gaining spreadsheet skills in the computer room. By encouraging students to use spreadsheets when appropriate to the mathematics, they can be an aid to the development of...

Spreadsheets Make Sense

This resource from SMILE contains 21 activities for using spreadsheets to solve mathematical problems. Teachers' notes give advice on appropriate ways of using the activity and identifying particular support students may need when using a spreadsheet.

The activities are:

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Subtraction

This SMILE resource contains one pack of games, investigations, worksheets and practical activities supporting the teaching and learning of subtraction.

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Surface Area and Volume

This SMILE resource contains two packs of games, investigations, worksheets and practical activities supporting the teaching and learning of surface area and volume, from counting the number of cubes in a solid to find the volume to finding maximum volumes of a solid.

Surface area and volume pack one...

Symmetry

Symmetry: SMILE card 0880 is a booklet of activities starting with a number of photographs of objects that exhibit symmetry. In the first task students explore the line symmetry of different mathematical shapes by folding followed by an activity in which students make a symmetrical picture of their...

The Highway Code

The Highway Code: SMILE card 1314 is a booklet of activities using the signs found in the Highway Code as a context. The booklet begins with a page of road signs. The first task asks students to categorise the signs by placing then into a two way table based upon their shape and their colour. The...

Topology

This SMILE resource contains one pack of games, investigations, worksheets and practical activities supporting the teaching and learning of topology.

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This item is one of over 25,000 physical resources available from the Resources Collection. The Archive Collection covers over 50 years of curriculum development in the STEM subjects. The Contemporary Collection includes all the latest publications from UK educational publishers.

Translation and Vectors

This SMILE resource contains two packs of games, investigations, worksheets and practical activities supporting the teaching and learning of translations and vectors, from creating border patterns to working with vectors.

Translations and vectors pack one contains twelve work cards with a...