The purpose of the study, produced by the Advisory Committee on Mathematics Education (ACME) was to inform the establishment of the planned National Centre for Excellence in the Teaching of Mathematics (NCETM), but it is also hoped that this report of the study will be viewed as a useful contribution to the on-...

This guide from the Nuffield Mathematics Project delves deeper in to how the study of the Environmental can lead to geometrical work. The importance of the environment as a source for mathematical ideas was stressed throughout the main teachers’ guides. The range of activities discussed in this Guide extends beyond...

This article looks at how STEM subjects can help students learn about key environmental issues using the National Association for Environmental Education's (NAEE) teacher handbooks about 'The Environmental Curriculum' and details of the 'Sustainable Development Goals' launched at the 2015 Paris agreement on climate...

Quadratic Equations contains three instant maths ideas covering expanding two brackets, factorising expressions and completing the square and using the formula to solve equations. Students are required to explore the importance of the discriminant. The resource sheet contains number puzzles which require the...

This SMILE resource contains two packs of games, investigations, worksheets and practical activities supporting the teaching and learning of equations, from solving simple linear equations to solving Diophantine problems.

Equations pack one contains fifteen work cards with a wide variety of...

Designed to improve confidence in mathematics, these resources from the Centre for Innovation in Mathematics Teaching, focus on equations and were developed particularly for primary teachers and those non-specialists who teach mathematics in the lower secondary years.

Each section offers an overview of a...

In this video from Osiris Educational Bill Rodgers discusses the essential skills that enable teachers to be a confident classroom leader with...

This series of ten interactive excel sheets explore estimating. Answers can be checked each time and new questions generated at the click of a button.

The first sheet shows a number line from 0 to 20, 50 or 100....

The European Space Agency have provided a range of purposeful and engaging activities to support learners across the Primary stage. These activities cover the Science, Maths, Design Technology, Computing and Topic curriculums through activities linked to life on Earth, our atmosphere and solar system and some even...

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 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...

Basic primary maths topics from the late 1960s.

ExperimentsAtSchool allows students to collect and analyse experimental data to draw practical conclusions in subjects including science, geography and psychology. Aimed at students aged 7 to 16, the experiments help them to develop and improve their data handling and statistical skills.

Each experiment has...