Produced by the Learning and Skills Improvement Service (LSIS), these resources offer a range of sessions looking at different aspects of number. They illustrate a variety of teaching and learning approaches and allow practitioners to reflect and develop their skills.

In this resource, sessions look at:...

This MEP resource from CIMT is taken from text book 8A which covers the mathematics scheme of work for the first half of year 8.

Ratio and proportion covers: equivalent ratios, direct proportion, proportional division; splitting an amount into a given ratio, linear conversion; masses, length, currency and...

This resource written by Shirley Fall has eleven cards, each with a statement about how some students have performed in two papers of a mathematics test. Students are tasked to decide who should get the mathematics prize by working out their rank order. It is suggested that students draw up a table to show each...

This sub-collection of resources from the Virtual Text Book collection contains three resources designed for use on an interactive whiteboard to aid the teaching and learning of a variety of topics in ‘Ratio, Proportion and Rates of Change’. Each resource is an interactive Excel worksheet to encourage teacher-...

This worksheet challenges students to answer a series of questions themed around using ratios when creating drawing to scale and calculating gear ratios. It provides worked examples, examiners top tips and answers to each question. The resource is useful for teaching maths content in design and technology, or as a...

This resource contains a worksheet, bingo cards and matching cards to give learners practice in simplifying ratios.

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

This series of short tasks is designed to assess how well students understand proportional reasoning in practical contexts. The contexts featured include:

• Relating a photograph to its negative
• Water used by a washing machine
• Coffee powder and cups of coffee made
• Stamp...

In this activity from Nuffield, students are asked to develop an experiment to measure and test people's reaction times. They can use any equipment available in the school/classroom, and will need to consider the reliability of their experiment and how any data collected will be analysed and presented.

Formulae is the focus of this resource, from the Centre for Innovation in Mathematics Teaching. Students will be familiar with the term 'reading age' and here they apply different formulae to a selection of text samples, before comparing and considering the accuracy of the results obtained.

Substitution into...

This resource from SMILE Mathematics consists of six themed handling data projects. Each project has teacher guidance giving possible hypothesis within the theme and also potential outcomes at different mathematical levels for each project under the headings: planning...

This resource from Defence Dynamics asks students to create and interpret a variety of graphs. The types of graph covered are time series, moving average, stem and leaf, cumulative frequency and scattergraphs.

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SMILE Card 2324 is a booklet containing six sections; counting activities, place value, addition and subtraction, multiplication and division, number puzzles and types of number.

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Tunnelworks is a series of teaching and learning resources linking mathematics and science to the Thames Tideway Tunnel project, a major new sewer that will help protect the River Thames from increasing pollution. Background to the project is given in the ...

The shortage of specialist teachers of mathematics has been a concern for many years and this resource, from the Learning and Skills Improvement Service (LSIS), is designed to help organisations focus upon a plan of action, which will lead to better recruitment and retention of mathematics teachers.

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To support and highlight Recycle Week in lessons there are a number of resources in this collection to engage students across various age ranges and parts of the curriculum.

There are a wide variety of resources ranging from; 'Recycling and Sustainability', a series of lessons looking at how materials can be...