This lesson develops the concept of percentage increase and decrease. In particular students will develop their understanding of:

• Translating between percentages, decimals, and fractions.
• Representing percent increase and decrease as multiplication.
• Recognizing the relationship...

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A video shows a dollar being placed on a photocopier...

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A magical demonstration where it appears that pouring a jug of water into different glasses produces a range of different drinks.  It is a great way to introduce a lesson on pH indicators at Key Stage Three and will hold students spellbound. Chemistry teacher Paul Grooby shows a starter demonstration, adding...

This resource contains two interactive excel files providing an introduction to indices, dealing with products and quotients involving indices and evaluating fractional indices (positive and negative). Each file contains the same further 16 sheets of questions which may...

From the Nuffield Foundation, the purpose of this module is to introduce students to index notation and standard form on the way to the determination of the size of a molecule. It builds up from simple rice-counting and paper-cutting to experiments in chemistry and...

This indices resource contains 21 instant maths ideas covering: basic understanding of powers, statements for which students are required to say whether the statement is sometimes, always or never true, a number of investigations including finding 'happy numbers', the number of squares on a chess board and the...

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

Indices and standard form covers: index notation, the laws of indices, negative indices, standard form and fractional indices.

The initial file forms part of the textbook...

From The Centre for Industry Education Collaboration (CIEC), this guide aims to help schools and science-based companies make the best use of their opportunities to liaise together. It concentrates upon using link activities to enrich aspects of the school science curriculum but there are many principles in the...

A National STEM Learning Centre and Network Engineering Case Studies resource investigating the industrial uses of Hemp.

Hemp is making a comeback!

Industrial hemp...

This CREST Bronze level resource pack contains nine different project ideas to allow students to investigate the four Industrial Strategy Grand Challenges of Ageing Society, Artificial Intelligence (AI), Future of Mobility and Clean Growth which also includes the effects of Climate Change. The four global trends...

This resource from Colin Foster contains nine instant maths ideas containing an activity to assess whether students can use the less than and greater than signs appropriately, an activity using a number line on which to represent inequalities, a number of true or false activities and an exploration of quadratic...

This inquiry prompt contains the following mathematical statements:

43 + 21 > 12 + 34

432 + 1 > 123 + 4

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