This resource from the Department for Education provides some useful tips on how to organise a successful STEM careers day: from contacting your local STEM broker and organising exciting activities to involving sixth formers and STEM local employers.

The Senior Mathematical Challenge (SMC), from the United Kingdom Mathematics Trust (UKMT), is a multiple choice contest in which students are presented with five alternative answers, of which just one is correct. It follows that often students can find the correct...

The Junior Challenge, from the United Kingdom Mathematics Trust (UKMT), is aimed at the top third of pupils in Year 8 or below in England and Wales, Year 9 or below in Northern Ireland and S2 or below in Scotland.

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This seemingly simple prompt leads to a rich task which students can explore in a variety of ways.

Lesson notes 1...

This task is designed to assess how well students understand repeated percentage reduction.

The task begins with reducing the price of a jacket by 25%. The sale price of the jacket reduces by 25% on a further three occasions. A statement is made that ‘four reductions of 25% must mean the jacket is then free...

This set of bingo cards supports children learn about 2D shapes in a fun and engaging way. It contains twelve bingo cards which can be printed off and laminated, allowing children to circle the shapes from a description of their properties.

This resource has been provided by Early Learning HQ.

Aimed at Early Years and lower primary this resource contains a set of 2D shape fans which support with the teaching about the properties of 2D shapes.

Provided by Early Learning HQ, the sections of the fan can be laminated and put together with a split pin to create the resource.

Properties of 2D shapes requires students to describe the properties of a square, a circle, rectangle, equilateral triangle and a hexagon and contains sample answers.

This resource consists of two interactive excel programs. The first allows students to explore 2D representations of solids. The second provides problems relating to angles and lengths within solids which need to be solved using trigonometry.

Drawing 3D in 2D This excel file deals with 2D...

Produced by the Learning and Skills Improvement Service (LSIS), these resources are aimed at mathematics practitioners.

Sessions in this resource look at:

• 2D and 3D shapes (developing mathematical language)
• 2D shapes - naming and classification (using co-operative small group work)...

This resource contains a series of interactive spreadsheets designed to demonstrate various teaching points and to provide practice in 2D and 3D shapes and their properties at primary level. They are:

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This SMILE resource contains three packs of games, investigations, worksheets and practical activities supporting the teaching and learning of 3-D shapes, from folding nets to make cubes to making a dodecahedron.

3-D pack one contains seven work cards with a wide variety of activities...

This video resource from Teachers TV shows how the Woolwich Polytechnic School for boys, in south London, improves their students' 3D awareness by visiting local buildings, making paper shapes and exploring the algebra of origami. On a visit to London, Year Nine students discuss the shape and structure of City Hall...

3D Objects requires students to name objects and count the number of edges, faces and corners of each object. The objects included are a cube, a cuboid, a pyramid, a cylinder, a cone and a sphere. The second page contains sample answers.

3D objects - practical problems asks students to determine whether different shaped parcels will fit through a letter box. The dimensions of the rectangular shaped letter box is given as are the dimensions of the parcels. In the second task, students are to determine whether different sized cuboids will fit through...