This activity encourages learners to think and talk about the maths they might need in their vocational area. The objectives of the activity are to become aware of and reflect on personal attitude to maths, to become aware of some of the maths needed in their vocational area, to become aware of areas of maths they...

The Centre for Innovation in Teaching Mathematics provide this resource which features the semaphore system of messaging, developed by the Chappe brothers in France in the late 18th century. The activities are designed to prompt discussion and mathematical thinking while students learn to interpret and code...

This Nuffield investigation involves determining the number of text messages sent if four people send texts to each other, and then extending this for different numbers of people.

*Key processes applicable to this...

This video introduces Paul, a senior composites engineer for Lola Cars International. Paul explains his role in designing the structures that are made of carbon fibre for race cars such as the one featured in the video. He discusses the love of engineering he had when he was younger and how his maths, physics and...

This sub-collection of materials from the dy/dan collection contains three resources that bring mathematical storytelling to the classroom in the context of ‘sequences’. Resources comprise:

• Act One: a video or photograph to provide a ‘hook’ to the problem

• Act Two: further relevant...

This collection contains resources from the website 1001mathproblems.com by Sian Zelbo. Both geometric and arithmetic sequences are featured in these resources, along with the Fibonacci numbers. Each topic is presented in the form of a puzzle, to which there are several different solutions. The materials are ideal...

Produced by the Learning and Skills Improvement Service (LSIS), these resources are aimed at mathematics practitioners. They illustrate a variety of teaching and learning approaches and allow practitioners to reflect and develop their skills.

In this resource, sessions look at:

• Sequences - using...

This resource contains seventeen instant maths ideas requiring students to construct sequences from a variety of situations such as drawing stick animals, from formulae, and drawing patterns leading to linear, quadratic and cubic sequences. Other tasks include finding the number of dots in a rectangle, finding...

This resource contains two excel programs; ‘Number Sequences: Linear’ and ‘Number Sequences: Non–linear’, each containing a series of interactive spreadsheets designed to explore number sequences requiring students to find a formula.

This MEP resource from CIMT is taken from text book 9B which covers the mathematics scheme of work for the second half of year 9.

Sequences includes: sequences with constant differences (linear, arithmetic sequences), generating a sequence from a formula, generating sequences from pictures, finding the...

This SMILE resource contains three packs of games, investigations, worksheets and practical activities supporting the teaching and learning of sequences, from finding the next two terms of a simple linear sequence to exploring the limits of sequences.

Sequences pack one contains thirteen...

The introduction to this resource from the Royal Statistical Society Centre for Statistical Education (RSSCSE) discusses the place of statistics in the National Curriculum and how each of the four areas:

*The handling...

This activity helps learners begin to consider some issues involved in setting up their own business by making an initial, outline, mathematical model of the costs involved in setting up a business. Learners are required to work in small groups to create a poster showing the factors they would take into account,...

This activity supplies students with a grid of numbers and a series of questions. The answers to the questions are located somewhere in the grid. Once found, students shade in the answer. When complete there will be some answers unused. These are added to gain the target number. Number bonds to ten requires...

This activity, from the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET), challenges students to use their mathematical skills to calculate the critical dimensions of the tunnel that will be built. It could also be taught in design and technology or engineering, with the...