In this STEMNET resource, Assistant Head Teacher Matthew Evans describes activities undertaken in his specialist Technology College to support STEM subject teaching. The school runs many STEM Clubs and has worked with STEM Ambassadors for nearly 15 years.

Matthew works closely with the STEM Ambassadors and...

This is a problem solving lesson, designed to help you access how well students are able to:

• Interpret a situation and represent the variables mathematically
• Explore the effects on a rectangle’s area of systematically varying the dimensions whilst keeping the perimeter constant.

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This is a problem solving lesson where students develop their understanding of the following areas:

• Drawing inferences about a population from a random sample of data
• Making and stating assumptions based on real-life situations
• Using proportional relationships to solve multistep ratio...

This book, from the Nuffield Foundation, describes problems and events occurring in an imaginary school, each written up in the form of a case study designed to be of value to students and teachers in training. It is one of the eight publications prepared by the Science Teacher Education Project (STEP), a project...

In this resource students explore the science of combustion in the context of fuel-burning stoves from around the world. They investigate the energy output from a variety of fuels covering calorific values, simple combustion chemistry, stove efficiency and chimney design. The unit ends with a design task requiring...

This resource features a task that explores matching an equation to a situation, solving the equation and then using the information to solve a further problem.

Ten people go out for dinner and have a choice of a three-course meal for $15 or a two-course meal for $12. The bill comes to $141. Five equations...

In this resource students estimate lengths and measure objects using both centimetres and millimetres.

The resource is part of the Nuffield Maths Level 1 Foundation resource collection.

This SMILE resource contains two packs of games, investigations, worksheets and practical activities supporting the teaching and learning of measurement, from measuring lengths using a ruler to techniques to find the thickness of a piece of card.

Measurement pack one contains nineteen work...

This collection of resources, from the National Physical Laboratory, sets a number of measurement challenges for students that can be performed in their own homes, or in school. 

All resources contain an explanatory video and a downloadable worksheet. 

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This publication from the National Physical Laboratory is an ideal resource for secondary teachers but could also be used by students at post-16 level. It can be used as a basis for best practice for taking measurements within the laboratory. The guide explains the basics of errors, uncertainties, spread, standard...

Measuring the diameter of our star This simple exercise allows students to measure the diameter of the Sun using a metre rule and two pieces of card. An image of the Sun needs to be projected on the card using a small hole in one piece of card.

Measuring the number of hours in a day...

This activity considers displaying data from a practical investigation looking at the effect of streamlining a boat's hull. It gives students the opportunity to consider how this information can be represented effectively and use this to form conclusions. The...

This maths in construction resource asks students to measure their classroom and make costing calculations. It also includes careers links to Quantity Surveying.