This resource features a task that involves modelling a practical situation using functions.

Students are presented with a situation where tickets are to be printed for a show. The task of determining the ‘best buy’ is given in an open format, with the solution of the problem being left open to students....

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Four people complete the challenge of drawing a...

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Four people complete the challenge of marking the...

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Four people complete the challenge of drawing the...

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Four people complete a challenge to draw the vertices...

This task is designed to assess how well students understand calculating the volume and surface area of a cylinder.

The task involves finding the height and radius of a cylindrical can which holds 200 cm³ of liquid and uses the smallest amount of aluminium.

This task is from the Mathematics...

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A loyalty card for a coffee shop is shown. For every...

This resource from CensusAtSchool contains the data of the number of students in twenty of the largest schools in England. Students are asked to consider how location may impact on the size of the school and the numbers of students in a year group. Students are also required to compare their own school to others by...

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A video screen grab is shown of a counter showing how...

The purpose of bin packing is to pack a collection of objects into containers called bins. The bins are all the same size and the objects to be packed are different sizes. The aim is to pack the objects into the bins using the fewest possible bins. In this example students are asked to save computer files onto a CD...

In this resource students are asked to play the role of a local theatre manager, tasked with finding the best way to organise the audience to minimise the amount of space they take up. To solve the problem students must apply a series of first fit algorithms.

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Multiplication Bingo is designed to help students practice their times tables and contains a pack of bingo cards and question cards used to play the game. The teacher notes give advice and tips on how to play and vary the game. Blank cards are provided to enable students to make up their own versions of the game...

This resource requires students to be able to use a calculator efficiently and accurately and to be able to round their answer to two decimal places or to know how to set up their calculator to give answers to two decimal places. The cards file contains nine pages of bingo answer cards with four cards on each page...

The workbook contains a number of simulations designed to aid students understanding of the Binomial distribution.

Binomial distribution: simulated tossing a coin ten times. The probability of achieving 0,1,2… heads is calculated and displayed in a frequency table and a bar chart. The...

Sovon, a Dutch bird protection organisation, counts birds. The number of greylag geese is increasing. Students are asked to investigate whether this increase is worrying for the diversity of water bird species? Students explore what the concept biodiversity means, how it can be described mathematically and what are...