Resources by Core Maths
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Exponential growth and decay
This package of Core Maths resources introduce students to exponential growth and decay by exploring exponential functions, compound interest for savings and depreciation of assets.
Exponential Growth and Decay: Teacher Guidance
This teacher guidance contains information including...
Fermi Estimates
This resource provides examples of solving problems using Fermi Estimates. These examples are similar to the ones covered in the resource "Estimates From Limited Data". The tasks may be suitable for group and internet access may be beneficial.
...Fermi estimation: tea in China
This resource contains a short presentation which introduces three problems where approximate solutions can be calculated.
The first activity asks students to use Fermi estimation to calculate the quantity of tea used in China in a three month period. Students are also invited to calculate an estimate of the...
Finance project
This Core Maths resource package involves students completing a financially-themed project. Students are given the task of promoting, manufacturing and delivering a new mobile phone for the best possible price. Students complete annual reports on monthly income and expenditure, explore interest rates, exchange...
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 financial mathematics in unfamiliar contexts.
Fitting numbers
In this Core Maths activity students are asked to play a ‘ladder game’ in order to improve decision making and explore probability theory.
Fitting Numbers: Overview
This teacher guidance contains a range of information including prior student knowledge, suggested approaches and possible...
Further Education colleges
In this Core Maths case study, three FE Colleges were interviewed about their experiences of setting up and delivering Core Maths- both the successes and challenges. Some of the challenges will be familiar to all centres, not just FE Colleges.
The resources includes further generic issues relating to...
Gambling
This Core Maths task investigates various aspects of gambling. Students investigate various aspects of gambling and helps develop a realistic...
Garden design
This package of Core Maths resources ask students to produce a quote for a building a garden following a simple plan. Students are asked to use volume and area calculations, unit conversions and create precedence table and activity network.
Garden design: Overview
This teacher guide...
Global child mortality
This Core Maths task explores the United Nations Millennium Development Goals (set in 2000).
The resource asks students to use data to consider if the UN millennium goal to reduce the under-five child mortality rate by two-thirds by the year 2015 has been realised.
The teacher guidance provides a...