This is a series of interactive excel sheets that explore the different methods for calculating standard deviation.

The first sheet helps demonstrate the method for finding the standard deviation from population data...

This excel file deals with the four operations on positive and negative numbers giving practice at a variety of calculations. The first four interactive sheet give sets of numbers to change into and from standard form. The powers of 10 may be positive or negative. The next interactive sheets deal with finding the...

The current Standards files from the National Strategies are based on work planned and assessed in relation to the 1999 National Curriculum programme of study. A new set of Standards files based on the 2008 National Curriculum were in production, but this set will provide useful guidance on making Assessing Pupils...

Annually the publication of GCSE and A level examination results prompts public interest in the standards of those examinations. In 1996, Lord Dearing in his Review of Qualifications for 16–19 Year Olds made several recommendations to ensure that "there is a basis and...

This report, jointly published by the School Curriculum and Assessment Authority (SCAA) and Ofsted under the chairmanship of Ron Dearing, presents the findings of an investigation into whether standards in GCSE and A level examinations were maintained in the period up to 1995. The improving examination grades...

This collection includes some activities for primary and secondary aged pupils which could be linked to Star Wars day.  

There are several activities looking at exoplanets and the search for alien life elsewhere in the Universe, which could be used to challenge the scientific validity of the film series....

The four starter activities in this resource all take the same format. On opening the file, students are presented with four questions to attempt. Clicking on one of the questions opens another page containing the question and space in which the solution can be written. Ideal for use with and interactive whiteboard...

This set of learning activities supports learners to:

•Become more aware of how mathematics can contribute to successful completion of vocational tasks.

•Reflect on their personal mathematical learning experiences and identify some engaging starting points for their future learning.

•Become...

Subtangent has provided 30 starters and puzzles along with a version of forbidden words, a game where a student has to select a card and communicate a given word to others without using any of the forbidden words written on the card.

Starters for STEM consists of lots of easy to run activities suitable for children from 4-11. Designed for parents to use at home they help children develop their science, technology, engineering and maths skills. These activities are easy-to-resource and provide children with the stimulus to talk about the world...

This introductory book in the Algebra / Shape and Space series from Spectrum Maths was primarily for those students working at National Curriculum levels one to three. It contains forty activities. Each activity is presented as a possible starting point for a lesson or series of lessons. Twenty focus on algebra and...

This book in the Data Handling series from Spectrum Maths was primarily aimed at children working between National Curriculum levels one to three. Activities support children in learning about block graphs, Carroll diagrams, pictograms, frequency tables and mapping diagrams. Each activity contains instructions for...

Starting Games, the first in series of three books of mathematical games from Spectrum written by Dave Kirkby. It was produced mainly for the primary years and those students working at National Curriculum levels one to three. This book contains forty games, each in the form of: • a photocopiable gameboard or score...

This is the first book in the series of investigations from Spectrum Maths. It was intended to be suitable for those students working at National Curriculum levels one to three. The forty student investigations in this book are non-sequential and focus mainly on the mathematical topics of addition, subtraction,...

A short series of topics of mathematics from the 1960s.