Resources by Core Maths
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Percentage calculations
This Core Maths activity explores a range of percentage calculations and the interpretation of the results. The calculations involve finding percentages of amounts, percentage change and reverse percentage problems.
A set of answers to the questions is provided.
...Percentages in finance: assessment
To complete this Core Maths students need to be familiar with financial concepts including taxation, National Insurance, and buying and selling shares.
The assessment task os based on the use of...
Physical Fitness
In this activity students create a graphical ready reckoner to assess physical fitness. The challenge is to construct the ready reckoner and ultimately use it in practical situations. Students are required to plot straight line graphs.
...Pinball wizard
This Core Maths PowerPoint presentation explores a game using a quincunx. Students are asked to consider possible prize structures for the games and are introduced to Pascal’s triangle.
Population Data
This resource contains seven activities related to population statistics.
Data Assessment...
Post-16 mathematics: a strategy for improving provision and participation
Published in 2012 by the Advisory Committee for Mathematics Education (ACME) this report states, ‘There is a wide consensus amongst politicians, employers, higher education tutors and others that students in England should, like their counterparts in the vast majority of other countries, continue to study...
Practice time
In this Core Maths task student have to answer a series of statistics questions covering box and whisker plots, cumulative frequency graphs and stem and leaf diagrams.
Practice Time: presentation
This PowerPoint presentation contains six examples, with questions, for students to explore...
This collection of resources is produced by the Core Maths Support Programme to support the implementation of Core Maths. The collection contains a range of activities all designed to enable students to use and apply probability in unfamiliar contexts.
Probability: Special Dice
In this activity students explore the probability involved in a particular game involving some special dice. The aim is to explain the reasons behind their findings when playing the game using some straightforward mathematics. Students are required to be familiar with...
Promoting Core Maths: background, evidence, plans, opportunities and challenges
This article, by Professor Paul Glaister, University of Reading, discusses some of the issues relating to the promotion of Core Maths to students, parents, schools and colleges and their senior leadership teams, and also to employers and higher education (HE). It considers the educational landscape...