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Raising Standards and Aspirations

This video resource from Teachers TV features ideas, implemented at Broadoak Mathematics and Computing College in Weston-Super- Mare, which have improved the GCSE attainment of their students.

Results rose from 24% achieving A*/C in 2003 to 50% in 2007 and have been achieved despite a profile of...

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.

The Leading Space Education programme has been funded by the STFC since September 2008. A network of schools was established and supported by SSAT, to develop and embed high-quality, space-themed educational practice. All schools started from different prior experiences of engagement with space education and are...

Raising Standards in STEM and Other Subjects: Using Space-related Contexts and Applications

The Leading Space Education programme has been funded by the STFC since September 2008. A network of schools was established and supported by SSAT, to develop and embed high-quality, space-themed...

Open-ended activities carefully chosen can use the skills and knowledge that each child, whether young or old, has already mastered. To have the whole school community working and talking for a while about one mathematical topic has unexpected pay-offs, as older children explain to younger ones and parents share...

Raman spectroscopy

Dr. Lewis Dartnell takes a sample from the Atacama desert, to the Open University, to be analysed by a Raman spectrometer.  The spectrometer shows the organic compounds that Lewis found on the quartz, as well as the composition of the quartz itself.

This video is part of a series of ten which look at the one...

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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 the latest publications from UK educational publishers.

Range of Human Hearing

This activity, from the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET), allows students to investigate the range of human hearing, to explore the pitch and frequency of sounds and to calculate the wavelength of sounds.

Range versus accuracy in floating point binary numbers

Students need to be aware of the trade-off when the number of bits allocated to the mantissa and exponent are increased or decreased. This worksheet allows them to answer practice questions. Answers are provided.