In this resource from the DfE Standards Unit, students learn to understand the properties of number operations, substitute integers, fractions, decimals and negative numbers into statements and equations in order to test their validity and address common misconceptions about the effect of addition, subtraction,...

This lesson develops the concepts of:

• Finding perimeters, areas, and volumes using formulas.
• Finding relationships between perimeters, areas, and volumes of shapes after scaling.

There are three initial questions to consider that deal with:

• The perimeter of a circle...

This lesson develops the concepts of length and area. Particular attention is given to proving why two areas are or are not equal.

The lesson begins with three questions regarding area that students must classify as ‘sometimes, always, or never true’. An example is ‘if you join the midpoints of the opposite...

This lesson develops concepts relating to radicals. In particular, students will enhance their understanding of:

• Use the properties of exponents, including rational exponents and manipulate algebraic statements involving radicals.
• Discriminate between equations and identities.
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This lesson develops the concept of reasoning about the properties of rational and irrational numbers. In particular, students will enhance their understanding of:

• Finding irrational and rational numbers to exemplify general statements.
• Reasoning with properties of rational and irrational...

This lesson develops the concept of reasoning about the properties of rational and irrational numbers. In particular, students will enhance their understanding of:

• Finding irrational and rational numbers to exemplify general statements.
• Reasoning with properties of rational and irrational...

These videos guide you through the process of evaluating the impact of changes you make to teaching approaches in your classroom. The evaluation approaches described here will enable you to tell whether new approaches are more effective than what they have replaced. You'll be able to make evidence-informed...

This resource contains an evaluation report on the two-year mentoring pilot programme for science and mathematics teacher trainees and early career teachers funded by the Training and Development Agency for Schools (TDA) which started in July 2009. 'Starting Out' was delivered by the Learning and Skills Network (...

An evaluation, published in October 2009,  of the STEM Pathfinder programme was carried out by NFER on behalf of the Specialist Schools and Academies Trust (SSAT), and draws on evidence gathered from twenty-nine of the participating forty schools.

This report, published in March 2012 by the National Foundation for Educational Research,
presents the findings of an evaluation of the Wellcome Trust’s Camden Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) Initiative which provided funding to eight Camden schools to develop interdisciplinary...

This collection holds a variety of evaluation reports and reviews that cover a range of projects around STEM initiatives and policy. Reports in the collection cover research into: * mentoring support for science and mathematics teachers (Starting Out) * scale and nature of STEM enhancement and enrichment activities...

Planning a Kitchen: SMILE card 1310 is a booklet which requires students to design a...

Exercises and Practice contains nine resources. Each resource contains a number of activities for use in the classroom designed to provide students with practice of a variety of mathematical skills. The topics covered are arithmetic, coordinates, mensuration, rectangles and pyramids, circles, trigonometry and...

This resource consists of ten topics, each section containing a brief explanation, examples and exercises.

Sets begins with a definition of a set and continues with the elements of a set, set notation, subsets, intersection and union of sets, Venn diagrams, the laws of sets and concludes...