One of the trial units from the Nuffield Primary Solutions in Design and Technology. In this unit, children examine different every day tools, such as potato peelers. The aim of the task is to examine how a number of tools are used and consider how they could be designed differently.

One of the trial units from the Nuffield Primary Solutions in Design and Technology. Children consider testing proceedures to evaluate what food they like and don't like. Testing food products requires a more subjective response than the testing of other products. It is important to develop a considered view of why...

One of the trial units from the Nuffield Primary Solutions in Design and Technology. In this unit, children examine containers of varying sorts, their contents and why they are the shape they are - everyday items.

Use questions to guide the students' thinking about the purpose and possible uses for a number...

In this programming task students have to create a program to calculate how much to pay delivery drivers based on either the hours they work or the number of parcels they deliver. The students are given the rules that should apply to the program and are then encouraged to plan their program either as a flowchart or...

In this programming task students have to create a program to calculate the cost of a journey made by self-employed delivery drivers. The students are given the rules that should apply to the program and are then encouraged to plan their program either as a flowchart or pseudocode before they start to code in...

This collection of resources can be used to create a roving buggy, when combined with either a Crumble Controller buggy kit or Invent! starter pack. The resources include instructions for programming your buggy, activity mats for students to use for their programming challenges, worksheets to guide students through...

This activity is designed to build on understanding of programming commands and what they are used to do in a program. It requires learners to show a...

In activity children simply give directions to a “robot” (either an adult or another child) and find out which instructions the robot is able to follow, and how their instructions are taken literally. It allows children to...

This is a resource aimed at students aged 11-14. It is one of a series that support the use of the BBC micro:bit in the classroom. The pack contains several lesson plans, presentations and student handouts. The first ‘unplugged’ lesson introduces students to how programmable systems work, the second they are walked...

This resource is from a collection of Nuffield Maths resources exploring dynamics. The demand is roughly equivalent to that in GCE A level. The resources typically include slide shows to introduce the topics, student sheets and teacher notes, as well as other relevant resources.

In this activity, students...

This task is designed to assess how well students understand geometrical proofs.

The task presents three attempts to prove Pythagoras’ theorem. Students must look carefully at each attempt and determine which is the best ‘proof’. They must explain their reasoning as fully as possible.

This task is...

This task is designed to assess how well students understand:

• Calculating the volume of a cylinder
• Calculating the volume of a hemisphere

The task looks at designing a Propane tank. The tanks are made in the shape of a cylinder, with a hemisphere at each end. The cylindrical part...

Aimed at upper primary level, this resource contains activity ideas and worksheets which support the teaching of materials and their properties. They cover many aspects of the topic including: comparing the properties of different materials, separating mixtures of materials based on their properties, irreversible...

This resource from Susan Wall contains five activities designed to enable students to explore the properties of functions in order to connect ideas together. Students learn how to solve equations, how to differentiate, how to find equations of tangents… but sometimes fail to see the picture as a whole. These...

This SMILE resource contains three packs of games, investigations, worksheets and practical activities supporting the teaching and learning of the properties of number, and a booklet 'Squares and Primes'.

Properties of number pack one contains sixteen work cards with a wide variety of...