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Register with AMSP to get access to FREE Core Maths Platform

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Register your school or college with the AMSP

Has your school or college registered with the AMSP? It's free and provides lots of benefits.

You'll receive a free basic subscription to Integral® to enable you to access high-quality resources to support your teaching and learning, including materials for:

all of AS/A level Further Mathematics, tailored to the specification followed

Core Maths

AQA Level 2 Certificate in Further Mathematics

OCR Level 3 FSMQ in Additional Mathematics

Sixth Term Examination Paper (STEP)

By registering your school or college, you will also have the opportunity to let us know what support you may need in the coming academic year and take advantage of AMSP tuition services for Core Maths and Further Mathematics.

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Has your school or college registered with the AMSP? It's free and provides lots of benefits.

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A great collection from Jo Morgan

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This page lists a selection of recommended resources for teaching Statistics at Key Stage 5, organised by topic. Please note that this page is for the legacy specification. Visit the updated statistics page for new specification resources.

Quick links: Correlation and Regression | Discrete Random Variables | Probability | Representing and Summarising Data | Normal Distribution | Binomial and Poisson | Continuous Random Variables | Hypothesis Testing | S1 Revision | S2 Revision

In addition to the resources listed here, I highly recommend the activities provided by the Further Maths Support Network/MEI (school login required), which include topic notes, worksheets, activities and assessments.

Also worth a read is MEI's advice on teaching statistics and this Guide to Dodgy Data.

Huge thanks to all individuals and organisations who share teaching resources.

Correlation and Regression

Discrete Random Variables

Representing and Summarising Data

Binomial and Poisson Distribution
Continuous Random Variables

Hypothesis Testing

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This page lists a selection of recommended resources for teaching Statistics at Key Stage 5, organised by topic. Please note that this page is for the legacy specification. Visit the updated statistics page for new specification resources.

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Register with AMSP to get access to free Integral Core Maths Resources

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Useful for Personal Finance, growth and decay, statistics and percentages

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Register your school or college with the AMSP

Has your school or college registered with the AMSP? It's free and provides lots of benefits.

You'll receive a free basic subscription to Integral® to enable you to access high-quality resources to support your teaching and learning, including materials for:

all of AS/A level Further Mathematics, tailored to the specification followed

Core Maths

AQA Level 2 Certificate in Further Mathematics

OCR Level 3 FSMQ in Additional Mathematics

Sixth Term Examination Paper (STEP)

By registering your school or college, you will also have the opportunity to let us know what support you may need in the coming academic year and take advantage of AMSP tuition services for Core Maths and Further Mathematics.

Stay Informed

By signing up to Stay Informed mailing list, you will be invited to participate in our events, which include professional development and student enrichment activities, and notified of new resources when they are available.

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Has your school or college registered with the AMSP? It's free and provides lots of benefits.

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Resources for Y7 to Y13

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These problems are designed to help Stage 3, 4 and 5 students to handle data and work with statistics.

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Graphs, maps and charts from The Times -- and an invitation to students to discuss them live.

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Graphs, maps and charts from The Times — and an invitation to students to discuss them live.

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Geographical teaching and learning resources

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Royal Geographical Society - Geography resources for teachers

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The Royal Geographical Society (with IBG) supports teaching in the classroom and field by providing award-winning geographical teaching and learning resources.

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Cross curricular resources from University of Cambridge

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The copyright holder is the University of Cambridge; the resources are freely available online for individual non-commercial use including personal study and for school, college and university teaching. If you have any questions about other uses of this material please contact us.

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Collection from MEI for A level students of a range of other subjects from business to science to social science.

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The Integrating Mathematical Problem Solving (IMPS) project is managed by MEI and funded by the Clothworkers' Foundation. The resources are designed to help teachers of mathematics and teachers of other subjects at A level to teach relevant aspects of mathematics and statistics, showing how they are used in solving real problems. They are relevant to both the legacy and new AS/A level specifications.

To access the resources please click this button

Or visit Integral and log in using: username: mei-imps; password: imps

For more information please contact Stella Dudzic

Please visit the link below to read more about the IMPS project:

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The Integrating Mathematical Problem Solving (IMPS) project is managed by MEI and funded by the Clothworkers' Foundation. The resources are designed to help teachers of mathematics and teachers of other subjects at A level to teach relevant aspects of mathematics and statistics, showing how they are used in solving real problems. They are relevant to both the legacy and new AS/A level specifications.

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Climate based maths questions

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by Pete Wright at UCL

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﻿ ﻿ The purpose of this site is to share ideas from the This participatory action research project ran from June 2013 to July 2014 and involved a group of five teacher researchers and myself. Its aim was to develop teaching approaches and ideas which address issues of social justice in the secondary mathematics classroom.
Teaching Maths for Social Justice project.

Some of the ideas from the project have been included in a book published by the ATM.

​Dr Pete Wright, UCL Institute of Education

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Sharing ideas from the Teaching Maths for Social Justice project.

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68 ideas for problems

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Ask your students 'what do you notice?' 'what do you wonder?' 'what is the story this graph is telling?'

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Distilling the world’s data, information & knowledge into beautiful infographics & visualizations

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Play with income mountains, bubble charts and maps.

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Voting, scams, business predictions, estimating, screening etc.

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The Critical Maths project aimed to build on the ideas of Professor Sir Timothy Gowers to develop a suitable mathematics-based curriculum for post-16 students who had succeeded at GCSE but were not intending to take A level Mathematics.

Background

Research published by the Nuffield Foundation in 2010 showed that levels of participation in maths education post-16 in England were significantly lower than in other developed countries, and reports from the Advisory Committee for Mathematics Education in 2011 highlighted the need for more young people to learn maths to a higher level in order to meet the needs of industry and higher education.

To increase the level of participation, a new curriculum was needed, suitable for students who have achieved a standard pass in GCSE Mathematics.

Funding

The DfE funded MEI to investigate how Professor Sir Timothy Gowers's ideas might inform a curriculum that could become the basis of a new course for students who do not currently study maths post-16.

Activities

Our work included the following aspects:

Consulting with higher education, employer organisations, learned societies and professional bodies across a range of disciplines and an advisory group of experts to develop a suitable curriculum. The curriculum was based on students engaging with realistic problems and developing skills of analysing problems and thinking flexibly to solve them. Careful consideration was given to the kinds of problems which would be appropriate for the students to work on, with a particular emphasis on the kinds of situations which might come up in a conversation with friends.

Developing teaching and learning resources which were trialled in schools and colleges. The purpose of this trialling was to refine the resources to ensure that they worked as intended and were engaging to the target audience.

Developing and trialling a suitable assessment methodology to enable the curriculum to be assessed in a way that encourages the development of transferable mathematical and statistical problem-solving skills. Such problem-solving skills are highly valued by higher education and employers.

Developing a professional development programme to introduce teachers to teaching starting from a context and steering discussions to maximise learning. These approaches were also being used in Japan and in the Netherlands. Professor Gowers stressed the importance of this in his blog.

Access to the classroom-trialled resources produced through this work is available through a guest-login to Integral resources:

"The main point is one I've basically made already: the discussions should start from the real-life problem rather than starting from the mathematics. Pupils should not feel that the question is an excuse to force some mathematics on them: they should be interested in the question and should feel the need for the mathematics, the need arising because one can give much better answers if one models the situation mathematically and analyses the model." Professor Sir Timothy Gowers, Gowers's Weblog

Impact

This curriculum development work, together with the Integrating Mathematical Problem Solving project findings was made available to inform awarding bodies' development of the new Core Maths qualifications, designed for students who have passed GCSE Mathematics but who do not intend to pursue a strongly maths-related discipline in higher education or employment. Core Maths qualifications were taken by over 12,000 students in 2021. The potential cohort is over 250,000 and the long-term aim is that over 100,000 students will take Core Maths qualifications each year.

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Critical Maths: A maths-based thinking curriculum for Level 3 (2012-2015) - MEI

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Questions Inspired by News Stories by Mark Dawes

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Items that can be used to provoke mathematical questions. Particularly useful for teachers of Core Maths.