This collection of resources, produced by the Association of Teachers of Mathematics, are design to support the teaching and learning of mathematics in secondary school. The activities are a mixture of problem-solving tasks, open-ended tasks, games and puzzles designed to develop students' understanding and...

Teachers TV was originally a television channel which aimed to provide professional development support for teachers, school leaders, support staff and governors. Many of the programmes were filmed inside real classrooms, with teachers sharing good practice and ideas for lessons.

The videos in this...

Produced by Becta, these materials consider six major opportunities for learners to benefit from the use of ICT in mathematics. These opportunities may be developed through a wide range of ICT, such as standard and graphic calculators, spreadsheets and interactive software. The areas considered here are:
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This is one of a set of resources developed to support the teaching of the primary national curriculum. They are designed to support the delivery of key topics within design and technology and maths. This resource focusses on creating a section drawing of a product.

Different types of drawing are used to...

These National Strategy materials were intended to support teachers in addressing the needs of those Year Nine students who entered Key Stage Three having achieved level three, or a low level four, in the Key Stage Two National Curriculum tests in mathematics.

A shop owner is to install a security camera in his shop to help prevent shoplifting. Students analyse a plan of the shop, using loci and construction to identify which shoppers are not in view of the camera and calculate what percentage of the shop is not covered. The second part of the activity requires students...

This task is designed to help you assess how well students are able to:

• Construct lines of sight for the visibility of a camera
• Find and compare the areas of triangles and quadrilaterals
• Calculate and compare percentages and/or fractions of areas

A shop owner has...

Developed with funding from the Department for Education, these video clips show interviews with young professionals working in science, technology, engineering and maths (STEM) sectors. The films introduce some of the exciting careers that students may access by studying STEM subjects. The professionals...

This activity allows students to investigate how images are produced from data streams by using first a spreadsheet and then an image-processing program. They then go on to see how the usefulness of such a monochromatic image may be enhanced by using lookup tables and calibration. The materials used focus on the...

This resource features five short tasks that involves structure in expressions.

An example task is to simplify an expression that contains square roots.

This task resource is from the Mathematics Assessment Resource Service, a collaboration between UC Berkeley and the Shell Centre team at the...

This is one of a set of resources developed to support the teaching of the primary national curriculum. They are designed to support the delivery of key topics within design and technology, maths and science. This resource focusses on developing understanding of levers.

Levers are one of the simplest forms...

In this resource designed by the IET, students explore statistics and use them to decide on a ranking of football players. Football players are ranked in different ways and there are a variety of awards they can be presented with. For example, each year the Ballon D’Or is awarded to the player judged to be the ‘...

This activity encourages learners to think and talk about the maths they might need in Agriculture and Animal Care, and helps them and their teacher find engaging starting points. The objectives of the activity are to become aware of and reflect on personal attitude to maths, to become aware of some of the maths...

This activity encourages learners to think and talk about the maths they might need in their vocational area. The objectives of the activity are to become aware of and reflect on personal attitude to maths, to become aware of some of the maths needed in their vocational area, to become aware of areas of maths they...