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Problem Solving - Football Problems

This Teachers TV lesson starter video presents a problem based on a football team. It is time for the seven-a-side football team to have their photograph taken. Unfortunately, the photographer only knows the goalkeeper's name, so he uses number clues to position the players so he can take the best team photograph...

Problem Solving - Is It a Bargain?

As part of the series Primary Lesson Starters, this Teachers TV film clip shows fictional Chief Inspector Hector Nector investigating a local conman. Dodgy Dave is offering five pairs of socks for £4 instead of one pair at 75p, a 20 per cent discount on t-shirts, and a free pair of sunglasses with every three...

Problem Solving 1

This resource from Teachers TV features Rebecca Miller, class teacher of Year Five at Burnt Tree Primary School in Sandwell, as she collaborates with Pali Nahal, from the Teacher of the Future project, to develop resources and plan lessons which focus on problem solving, a topic that can be a difficult concept...

Problem Solving 2

In this Teachers TV video, Chris Randall explains Teacher of the Future, an intervention programme designed to improve standards in mathematics.

The intervention programme provides ten weeks of intensive support to enable teachers to develop their understanding and knowledge of mathematics and to target...

In this new edition Mick Hicks addresses the need for a new range of problem solving and decision making strategies for dealing with the problems of the modern business environment.

He identifies that there is...

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Problem solving challenge: Buildings and fire safety

In this 5 hour STEM Clubs teaching pack students examine ways in which communities can put measures into place to make sure people and properties are safe, and look at how the IoT can bring additional benefits to this safety.

It is recommended that, prior to this...

Problem solving challenge: Can the internet improve fire safety

In this  extended five hour communities and fire safety challenge, students work in small groups, to design, make, test and evaluate an electronic system to provide early warning in the event of a fire breaking out. They...

Problem solving challenge: Fire detection with the Internet of Things

In this 5 hour Mathematics teaching pack, students are asked to consider how the internet of things can connect the previously unconnected, and how this can be used in fire detection systems.

Students are asked to work towards a CREST Discovery Award by designing a connected fire detection system in teams...

Problem solving challenge: using computational thinking and the Internet of Things to improve fire safety

This five hour teaching pack examines how everyday technologies can be connected via the Internet Of Things (IoT) to improve fire safety. 

From the sensors...