These four sets of problems, from the Nuffield Mathematics Project, have been designed for young secondary-school students. It was hoped that teachers would find them useful in conjunction with the main work described in the teachers' guides. The majority of the...

This collection of STEM education reports explores professional development across the science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM subjects). The reports include:

A recommended code of governance for schools: a flexible framework for strategic planning

Space for technicians?

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This collection from Teachers TV features videos that are aimed at primary mathematics practitioners and professional development. They contain advice and guidance on pedagogy, lesson planning, organising mathematics in and out of the classroom and other areas of teaching and learning. They are useful to both...

This guidance is aimed at businesses and other organisations looking to provide support and inspiration for science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) in schools.  It is based on consultation with teachers, further developed through debate between teachers, businesses and learned societies.  Teachers...

With the introduction of the revised National Curriculum programmes of study, one of the Hampshire Leading Mathematics Teachers’ (LMT) core groups decided to focus on activities to promote cross-curricular STEM work in schools.

This maths activity will give children the opportunity to explore thrust by creating windmills and recording data from test flights. Pupils will accurately measure, compare and record numbers in a group activity and further their understanding through key questions. This resource is part of a series of STEAM...

This SMILE resource contains three packs of games, investigations, worksheets and practical activities supporting the teaching and learning of the properties of number, and a booklet 'Squares and Primes'.

Properties of number pack one contains sixteen work cards with a wide variety of...

Published by BEAM, this collection provides a selection of resources for teachers of primary and lower secondary mathematics. Included are a number of challenging problems and puzzles, open-ended investigations, cross-curricular activities and games to practise and consolidate students' mathematical understanding...

This Instant Maths Ideas resource from Colin Foster contains two files: Factors, Multiples, Prime Numbers and Divisibility contains 26 instant maths ideas requiring students to use Venn diagrams to show different sets of numbers, explore methods of prime factorisation, devise tests for divisibility, investigate...

This series of interactive excel sheet explores the properties of numbers. New questions can be generated each time by the click of a button. To check the answers click on the smiley face.

The first sheet contains a...

This SMILE resource contains three packs of games, investigations, worksheets and practical activities supporting the teaching and learning of the properties of shapes, from identifying shapes to investigating right-angles in polygons.

Properties of shapes pack one contains nine work cards...

A set of thirty puzzle cards for Key Stage Two students aged eight and nine, produced at Manchester Polytechnic and written by Gillian Hatch. [b]Contents include:[/b] Number squares using addition tables, rectangle puzzles on a number grid, a number of puzzles using number machines and flow diagrams, investigations...

This resource from the IET teaches pupils about number sequences, patterns and predictions, in the context of making Christmas paper chains. Pupils are challenged to create the longest paper chain with just three pieces of paper.