This SMILE resource contains one pack of games, investigations, worksheets and practical activities supporting the teaching and learning of directed numbers, from reading directed numbers from a scale to multiplying and dividing directed numbers.

Directed Numbers contains eleven work cards...

This resource written by Shirley Fall has thirteen cards each with a statement about directed numbers and how they lie on a 3 by 3 grid. The rationale is for students to discuss possible options and work towards a solution of which directed number lies in each of the grid cells.

The file named Directed...

This Study Plus unit from the National Strategies asks students to plan the relief aid for a fictitious tsunami along the South American Pacific coast. The project is centred on Concepción, Chile’s second largest urban conurbation. This was the scene of an actual tsunami in 1960, after an earthquake off the Chilean...

This sub-collection of resources from the ‘Graphing Stories’ collection contains situations that give rise to jump discontinuities in graphs.

This collection of short videos have been created by STEM Ambassadors as part of the Discover STEM programme. Each Discover STEM video is presented by a STEM Ambassador, working in industry or university. The videos cover curriculum related topics...

This collection of short videos link to the maths curriculum. Each video has been created by STEM Ambassador as part of the ...

Discover Science & Engineering, the education and outreach programme of Science Foundation Ireland (SFI), seeks to promote the awareness and engagement of the Irish public with science, technology, engineering and maths (STEM). Discover Science & Engineering (DSE) is an integrated awareness programme for...

DISCUS consists of eight Excel workbooks and a set of associated photocopiable work cards covering the topics: Descriptive Statistics, Probability, Binomial Distributions, The Poisson Distribution, Continuous Distributions, Sampling, Regression and Hypothesis Testing. The materials are designed to be used off the...

This lesson develops the concept of Pythagoras’ theorem. In particular students will:

• Use the area of right triangles to deduce the areas of other shapes
• Use dissection methods for finding areas
• Organise an investigation to systematically collect data
• Deduce a generalizable...

This is a problem solving lesson, designed to help you assess how well students are able to:

• Select appropriate mathematics to solve a problem
• Compare and evaluate different methods for solving a problem and make generalizations about the appropriateness of different approaches
• ...

A substantial part of this Nuffield Advanced Mathematics option was about algorithms. Students used calculators, or computers with a structured programming language, to turn algorithms into programs. They were introduced to various aspects of discrete mathematics and,...

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 discrete mathematics in unfamiliar contexts.

This series of interactive excel sheets explore discrete random variables, in particular those of coins and dice.

The first sheet offers a reminder of Pascal’s Triangle.

In this activity, students are given a Venn diagram and asked to find eight different probability distributions, one for each of the eight regions in the Venn diagram. The notes give solutions for the regions that are possible.

This resource is part of the Making Stats Vital collection from Jonny Griffiths...

This exercise is designed to ensure that students know how to find the expected value, E(X), and the variance, Var(X) for a discrete random variable, and that the probabilities in a probability distribution always add to one. Students are given a selection of numbers and are challenged to establish those...