This collection of five publications, from the Mathematics Centre at the University of Chichester, is a particular offering for teachers of children in primary schools who wish to widen and enrich mathematics in their classrooms and encourage students to carry out some of their own mathematical work. Although the...

A collection of three resources exploring the mathematics used in air travel. Students explore: *Scheduling of aircraft, the construction of timetables and dealing with time zone differences. *Scheduling pilots, using formulae to calculate the working time of pilots. *The use of formulae to calculate flight charges...

A collection of six resources exploring the mathematics used in the production of steel. Students explore the: *Design of tin cans requiring the formation of equations, calculation of the volume of a cylinder and the minimum value for surface area. *Most efficient way to stamp out the template for a drinks can from...

The Education Act 2002 implemented the legislative commitments set out in the White paper Schools Achieving success. It was a substantial and important piece of legislation intended to raise standards, promote innovation in schools and reform education law....

The National Curriculum for Mathematics was introduced into England, Wales and Northern Ireland as a nationwide curriculum for primary and secondary state schools following the Education Reform Act 1988. The purpose of the National Curriculum was to standardise the content taught across schools in order to raise...

The 1989 document was replaced by a revised version, Mathematics in the National Curriculum (1991). A major aim of the revision was to make assessment more manageable, whilst keeping the content of mathematics unchanged. The revisions came into force on 1 August 1992.

The 14 Attainment Targets (ATs) were...

In 1993 Sir Ron Dearing, Chairman of the School Curriculum and Assessment Authority (SCAA), reviewed the whole national curriculum and made recommendations on slimming down the curriculum, and improving its administration. The revised curriculum which was implemented from August 1995 was not to be altered for five...

Although the Qualifications and Curriculum Authority (QCA) carried out a radical overhaul of the curriculum, the mathematical content hardly changed. Key Stages One, Two and Three had their own Programmes of Study (PoS). Key Stage Four was now divided into Foundation and Higher. The PoS set out what students should...

This collection contains a variety of models and extensive notes and activities by Arthur Owen OBE. 

This booklet, from the Mathematics Centre at the University of Chichester, contains accounts of how some students aged eight and nine became involved in starting to carry out some of their own mathematical explorations. The accounts focus on the first hour or so of five...

This booklet, the Mathematics Centre at the University of Chichester, contains accounts of how some students aged nine and ten became involved in starting to carry out some of their own mathematical explorations. The accounts focus on the first hour or so of five...

Polydron is a system of strong, colourful shapes capable of being fitted together to make nets of shapes that can be folded to make a 3D models. Mathematics with Polydron describes thirty six activities, in seven sections, designed to promote exploration and creativity as a vehicle for understanding. Each activity...

This booklet, the Mathematics Centre at the University of Chichester, contains accounts of how some students aged ten and eleven became involved in starting to carry out some of their own mathematical explorations. The accounts focus on the first hour or so of five...

This Nuffield Advanced Mathematics option consisted of two units of work on different themes. A likely model for coursework was that students would develop an aspect of interest from one of the themes into a longer project.

Each file in this resource begins by asking: What grade are you...? There then follows a series of questions on the given topic with an indication of the level of difficulty of each question by means of a GCSE grade assigned to that question. The final pages supply the answers to the questions

Basic...