This resource is based on Thomas Heatherwick’s rolling bridge at Paddington Basin in London. Rolling bridges are also used in areas after natural disasters to provide temporary crossings. There are exercises involving the mathematical analysis of the design and some basic construction of models of the bridge. The...

Produced by Rolls-Royce, this toolkit of careers resources helps students to see the connection between STEM subjects studied in school, college or university and future job opportunities. The resources are designed to help students to understand: * The wide range of jobs and industries which require STEM skills....

This task is designed to assess how well students understand:

• Symmetry
• Names of shapes
• Describing angles

A representation is shown of a Roman mosaic floor that was uncovered in Spain. The task is to describe the complete pattern as precisely as possible, so that someone...

Ros Brain, Deputy Head Teacher in a primary school, recruited four STEM Ambassadors from STEMNET to bring alive the topic of poor sanitation for an activity day in her school.

The children got involved in a range of practical and fun experiments which were relevant not only to the themes of problem solving,...

This activity, from the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET), introduces students to a mathematical solution to code breaking by using a simple substitution code. Students will make a survey using the frequency of letters in English sentences, match up an...

This activity, from the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET), introduces students to a mathematical solution to code breaking using a simple substitution code. Students make a survey using the frequency of letters in English sentences, match up an encoded...

This SMILE resource contains one pack of games, investigations, worksheets and practical activities supporting the teaching and learning of rotation.

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Act 1

A map is shown of an area with a ring road, and also...

A resource containing six instant maths ideas which explore different kinds of rounding, to whole numbers, to a number of decimal places and to a number of significant figures. There are a number of resource sheets containing examples of decimals to be used with the tasks, a resource for exploring fractions,...

This resource contains two interactive excel files which deal with rounding of discrete and continuous variables and pose problems involving practical examples of calculations using rounded values.

Rounded Numbers: Bounds The first interactive sheet shows two numbers rounded to the nearest...

In this resource from the DfE Standards Unit, students work together to round numbers to the nearest 10, 100, 1000. They make generalisations from the results obtained. Students should have some awareness of place value. (GCSE grades E-G)

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.

Rounding and estimating covers: revison of the four rules for whole numbers, revision of the four rules for decimals, order of operations; BODMAS, problems in context, rounding to...

Students' misconceptions when rounding to the nearest 1000 is the focus of this resource from the Centre for Innovation in Mathematics Teaching. It illustrates how, when asked to round a value to the nearest 1000, some students mistakenly round to the nearest 10, then the nearest 100 and finally to the nearest 1000...

Roving with Rosalind is...