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

• Solve a real world modelling problem
• Apply proportional reasoning

The problem is set in the context of a journey to school. Here are the features of the problem:

• Each day...

The Shell Centre has produced a range of innovative teaching materials for mathematics education, together with research publications and tests. Most of these were developed at the Shell Centre for Mathematical Education at the University of Nottingham, UK. The two collections, Numeracy through Problem Solving and...

This task is designed to assess how well students understand proportional reasoning and how it relates to graphs.

The task is set in the context of making shelves by using planks of wood supported by three bricks at each end. Students investigate both the materials and costs involved for making different...

Through these resources, students investigate sewage tunnels that are being built under London and consider how society has changed over time, to identify the influences that have resulted in the needs for a new tunnel. Activities challenge students to use their mathematical skills to calculate critical dimensions...

Act 1

Two ships set off from different ports at the same...

These cre8ate maths materials have been designed to support the teaching of mathematics at Key Stage Three, but can be used at Key Stage Two and Key Stage Four, in the context of a beauty salon.

In this resource students are asked to plot graphs of real data to compare the straight-line distances between towns with the distance by road.

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

Act 1

A video is shown of a person running a bath, and a...

Siemens have created a number of high-quality engaging online interactive games and activities for pupils of all ages covering many aspects of the STEM curriculum.  Topics range from cybersecurity to carbon emissions; programming to dressing a site worker in appropriate personal protective clothing. Many of the...

This resource, from the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET), explores how communicating rapidly over long distances has changed a great deal since beacons were lit on hilltops. It introduces the science behind sound vibrations, and presents signals,...

The first five interactive sheets deal with various types of diagram involving similar triangles. Each sheet shows a clear diagram and a table of values. Lengths of line segments can be revealed to allow the student to calculate the scale factor of enlargement and the...

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

Similarity covers: enlargement, similar shapes, linear scale factors, area scale factors, volume scale factors, maps and scale models.

The initial file forms part of the...

From the Nuffield Foundation, the purpose of this module is to introduce students to a study of the properties of similar figures as a first step on the way to a study of trigonometry. Hence the workcards involve the practising of the mechanics of enlargement, becoming...