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A collection of spotter sheets to help learners spot and identify a range of plants and animals.
An original new science series which explores the key characteristics that divide the main animal and plant groups, and looks at how these characteristics have evolved over time. The...
The Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP) is a NASA Explorer mission that launched June 2001 to make fundamental measurements of cosmology - the study of the properties of our universe as a whole. WMAP has been stunningly successful, producing our new Standard Model of Cosmology.
Will Discusses Variables
In this video, a team leader at Ocado technology explains his role managing a programming team.
He also explains variables, and how they are used in programs. He uses examples in the real-world, linked to variables in the Rapid Router software, to explain how variables are used in control technology.
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.
Will it Fit?
In this numeracy activity, children work out surface areas and solve the problem of how to get the maximum number of shapes out of a given area. They are given the context of engineers working in a packaging factory who have to design the best layout for the cutting machines, work out the wastage left from each...
Will It or Won't It?
This Study Plus unit from the National Strategies aims to develop students’ understanding of angle properties in shapes. It begins with the idea of tiling a floor and which shapes will tessellate.
After an initial emphasis on discovering angle facts from regular polygons, the unit moves on to using angle...
This report contains the results of a review published in Mathematics in Schools. The report emphasised that the special relationship between computers and mathematics was not found with other schools subjects. This relationship is a consequence of the role which mathematics has played in the development 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.
This astronomy series looks at different aspects of the universe we live in.