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Project Mathematics Update is a series of professional development resource packs from the Open University, sponsored by the DES. The materials are designed both for teachers who are already teaching mathematics and for those...

Project Mathematics Update is a series of professional development resource packs from the Open University, sponsored by the DES. The materials are designed both for teachers who are already teaching mathematics and for those who are moving into mathematics teaching.

The materials aim to:

• help...

Preparing Your Child for Year 7 Science

This resource describes how parents can assist their children in the transition to working scientifically at secondary school. The document also details how children have been taught to work scientifically at primary level.

The resource has been provided by the Expert Subject Advisory Group - Science.

The method of preparation of a sulphonate paste described in this Unilever Laboratory Experiment is basically the same as that used by Unilever in the large-scale production of soapless detergents at the time of publication in 1964. The required reactants included an alkylbenzene hydrocarbon supplied by the...

This item is one of over 25,000 physical resources available from the Resources Collection. The Archive Collection covers over 50 years of curriculum development in the STEM subjects. The Contemporary Collection includes all the latest publications from UK educational publishers.

Preschool fade out

Published in 2015, a working paper from the Curry School of Education at the University of Virginia investigated the persistence of effects of early childhood interventions and asked whether these effects fade systematically. The study found that “by the end of kindergarten [Year 1] children who attended preschool...

Teachers are often required to give presentations to adult groups. Covering all aspects of the presentation event, this book examines areas such as: overcoming fears of speaking in public; researching the audience...

Filled with tips and techniques for planning, structuring and delivering a polished presentation, this title covers topics such as overcoming nerves, handling audience questions, and making the message memorable with...

Presenting Data Graphically

This resource contains four instant maths ideas exploring how to represent data graphically. In the first task students record how long they watch TV, group the results and draw two separate graphs to compare boys and girls. The second task requires students to consider what type of diagram is suitable to represent...

Presenting fitness data

In this activity, students use the data gathered during the Wii Fitness investigation to contextualise cumulative frequency curves. Curriculum links include grouped data, cumulative frequency graphs. box plots, median, quartiles and distribution.