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Wide range of resources to aid in the development of mathematical subject knowledge.
Can be used to support personal development or in the classroom as printed or interactive resources for children.

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Enriching mathematics for all learners

A free-to-use collection of mathematics activities, lessons and problems designed to nurture curious, resourceful and confident learners of mathematics. Produced by The University of Cambridge.

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The Nrich Maths Project Cambridge,England. Mathematics resources for children,parents and teachers to enrich learning. Problems,children's solutions,interactivities,games,articles.

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The 96 Words Every Pupil Needs
to Know by the End of Year 6. KS1 & KS2.

Extremely useful vocabulary list of all the most important mathematical terminology.

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Link to the Maths Is Fun homepage where a variety of games and resources aimed at improving understanding can be found.

Lots of games for children, explanations which can be useful to both children and adults looking to expand their subject knowledge as well as many other interactive activities.

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Math explained in easy language, plus puzzles, games, worksheets and an illustrated dictionary. For K-12 kids, teachers and parents.

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Alphabetically organised mathematics dictionary of important terminology.

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Useful explanation of how to use number lines when adding.

Could be used in the classroom to aid teachers explanation

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Number lines are a great way to visualise addition and subtraction on paper.

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Free videos and downloadable worksheets to help adult learners improve their calculation and numeracy skills.

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How to: Convert factions, decimals and percentages 

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How to: Convert factions, decimals and percentages 

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Very helpful and clearly explained visual aid to understanding what can be a confusing concept

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What are Proportions? How to Convert Between Fractions, Decimals and Percentages (Proportions 1)

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No single aspect of marketing is more important than a quality website, your organization's front door. A "good" website isn't good enough to break through and to convert users into engaged customers and brand ambassadors. What you really need is a great website.

Thousands of pre-made templates and themes make creating a website easy-if all you want is a simple, off the shelf website that looks professional enough to give business a basic start. But to differentiate in today's competitive landscape, you need a website as unique as you are.

So, what makes a great website?

1. Well Designed and Functional

Your site reflects your company, your products, your services and ultimately your brand. So it's important to be visually appealing, polished and professional. Allow white space, uncluttered layouts with quality photographs and graphics look and let your message shine through. (See examples.)

Equally important, the site must work quickly, correctly and as expected. Build to web standards, proofread rigorously and test regularly for problems with speed or functionality. Every page should always be fast and functional, because any of them could be a potential customer's first or only impression. Broken, slow, or poorly constructed areas will leave your visitors frustrated and encourage them to leave.

2. Easy to Use

Site visitors are always in a hurry. Don't make them work for information. User Experience (UX) plays a key role in helping visitors use, understand and stay on your website. Create obvious, logical navigation with clear hierarchy. Use consistent layouts and visual cues for functionality across the site.

Your site should satisfy both 'searchers'-coming for something specific, and 'browsers'-just looking. Help users accomplish their tasks quickly with onsite search, and keep them engaged by suggesting related content and minimizing dead ends.

3. Optimized for Mobile

Today there are no excuses, your site must look great and work well on any platform. The growth of mobile and tablet devices is not slowing down and you just don't know what your next visitor will be using. Optimizing for mobile will improve both the experience of your visitors and your SEO Rankings.

4. Fresh, Quality Content

Be succinct, interesting and new. Use language that makes sense to your audience-avoid jargon, corporate speak and acronyms. Explain your "Why." Visitors have short attention spans: spell correctly, be accurate, be relevant and update regularly. (Some tips here.) Blogs and social media updates are great ways to add fresh content, which keeps visitors returning and helps SEO strategy. Yes, keeping things fresh requires a bit of investment. No, you can't do without it.

5. Readily accessible contact and location

Your audience won't chase you down. Make it easy to engage, offer multiple points of contact: phone, email, social media and maybe an easy-to-use contact form. A Google map is a bonus. Above all, ensure that this information is readily available on an easy-to-find contact page-if not every page of your site.

6. Clear calls to action

If your site asks nothing of visitors, they will surely do nothing. What is the purpose of your site? Is that purpose clear to visitors? Even informational sites want visitors to read and share articles, follow the company on social media, download toolkits, join mailing lists or learn more about the organization. Include an ask on each page.

7. Optimized for Search and the Social Web

It's not enough to build a nice looking website that's easy to use. It needs to earn traffic. Otherwise, all that effort in design, UX and content development will be for naught. There are hundreds of rules and guidelines for effective search engine optimization, so here are a few to start with:

Use page titles and meta tags on every page and alt tags on every image.

Optimize content on your site to align with words real people search for.

Use keywords appropriately in content and links.

Use Cascading Style Sheets for layout and keep your HTML code clutter-free.

Make it as easy as possible for visitors to share your content. Social can drive large volumes of traffic and positively impact your search ranking. Don't forget obvious sharing links (even if they are rarely used in actuality).

This is a high-level overview of seven deep topics! These basic tenets will help you start getting more value out of your web presence as you move toward the great website you need. For a deeper dive, contact us. Ideas On Purpose is ready to help.

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7 Qualities of a Great Website | Ideas On Purpose

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No single aspect of marketing is more important than a quality website, your organization's front door. A "good" website isn't good enough to break through and to convert users into engaged customers and brand ambassadors. What you really need is a great website.

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How to explain the difference between a scientific hypothesis and a conjecture (2 very similar terms)

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Huge range of resources for personal use and use in the classroom

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English skills include speaking, listening, reading and writing.

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All things Curriculum for Excellence!

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Scotland's curriculum - Curriculum for Excellence (CfE) - helps our children and young people gain the knowledge, skills and attributes needed for life in the 21st century. A refreshed narrative on Scotland's curriculum, which sets CfE within the current context, was published in September 2019. It is available in both English and in Gaelic.

Scotland's approach

Curriculum for Excellence places learners at the heart of education. At its centre are four fundamental capacities. These capacities reflect and recognise the lifelong nature of education and learning. The four capacities are aimed at helping children and young people to become:

Successful learners

Confident individuals

Responsible citizens

Effective contributors

What matters?

As part of their learner journey, all children and young people in Scotland are entitled to experience a coherent curriculum from 3 to 18, in order that they have opportunities to develop the knowledge, skills and attributes they need to adapt, think critically and flourish in today's world.

Curriculum is defined as the totality of all that is planned for children and young people from early learning and childcare, through school and beyond. That totality can be planned for and experienced by learners across four contexts:

Curriculum areas and subjects

Interdisciplinary learning

Ethos and life of the school

Opportunities for personal achievement

Curriculum entitlements

Children and young people's rights and entitlements are central to Scotland's curriculum and every child and young person is entitled to experience:

a curriculum which is coherent from 3 to 18;

a broad general education, including well planned experiences and outcomes across all the curriculum areas from early years through to S3. This includes understanding the world, Scotland's place in it and the environment, referred to as Learning for Sustainability;

a senior phase after S3, which provides opportunities to attain and achieve, including to study for qualifications, awards and other planned activities to develop the four capacities;

opportunities for developing skills for learning, skills for life and skills for work;

opportunities to maximise their individual potential, benefitting from appropriate personal support and challenge;

support to help them move into positive and sustained destinations beyond school.

How we do it

Taking curricular aims and translating them into practice is a continuous process. The How we do it section of the Refreshed Narrative sets out key considerations, activities and ways of working to support the process of curriculum making.

Key elements

Curriculum levels

The broad general education has five levels (early, first, second, third and fourth). The senior phase is designed to build on the experiences and outcomes of the broad general education, and to allow young people to take qualifications and courses that suit their abilities and interests.

Curriculum areas

There are eight curriculum areas:

Expressive arts

Health and wellbeing

Languages (including English, Gàidhlig, Gaelic learners, modern languages and classical languages)

Mathematics

Religious and moral education (including Religious and moral education and Religious education in Roman Catholic schools)

Sciences

Social studies

Technologies.

Literacy, numeracy and health and wellbeing are recognised as being particularly important - these areas are seen as being the 'responsibility of all' staff.

Related links

Benchmarks - The Curriculum for Excellence Benchmarks set out clear statements about what learners need to know and be able to do to achieve a level across all curriculum areas.

Experiences and outcomes (often called Es+Os) are a set of clear and concise statements about children's learning and progression in each curriculum area. They are used to help plan learning and to assess progress.

Resources to support the Refreshed Curriculum for Excellence Narrative - These resources have been designed to support practitioners in engaging with the Refreshed Curriculum for Excellence Narrative, published on 9 September 2019.

Principles and practice - The principles and practice documents are essential reading for practitioners as they begin, and then develop, their work with the statements of experiences and outcomes.

Building the Curriculum - The 'Building the Curriculum' document series provides advice, guidance and policy for different aspects of Curriculum for Excellence including: the curriculum areas assessment; and developing skills for learning, life and work.

Minutes from the Curriculum and Assessment Board - The Curriculum and Assessment Board has been established to improve curriculum and assessment policy in education.

A Statement for Practitioners from HM Chief Inspector of Education (August 2016) - ​The Statement on Curriculum for Excellence provides key messages about what teachers and practitioners are expected to do to effectively plan learning, teaching and assessment for all learners.

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Scotland's curriculum - Curriculum for Excellence (CfE) - helps our children and young people gain the knowledge, skills and attributes needed for life in the 21st century. A refreshed narrative on Scotland's curriculum, which sets CfE within the current context, was published in September 2019. It is available in both English and in Gaelic.

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All Outcomes for the Curriculum for Excellence 

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This includes the experiences and outcomes for:
Expressive arts
Health and wellbeing
Languages
Gaelic
Literacy and English
Numeracy and mathematics
RME
Sciences
Social studies
Technologies

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Wide range of articles, games, videos and more

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We created Wow Science to help children discover and enjoy learning. The resources are carefully selected and tested to make sure your child can enjoy the best science resources available on the website.

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All things under the scientific classification of the Living World

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The living world - KS2 Science - BBC Bitesize

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KS2 Science The living world learning resources for adults, children, parents and teachers.

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KS2 Science Materials learning resources for adults, children, parents and teachers.

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Scientific hints and tips
Fun Facts
How to get involved

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Create Eden wherever you are with our free resources and ideas for everyone at home.

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Useful scientific explanations including images, diagrams and definitions

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Science is the study of the world around us. Scientists learn about their subject by observing, describing, and experimenting. There are many subjects and branches of science. Some study outer space like astronomy. Other sciences study life (biology) or the earth (geology) or even matter and energy (physics). Below are some subjects that you may be interested in or studying in class. The world around us is fascinating and learning about it can be fun and interesting.

Much of the science we know today was discovered using theScientific Method. The Scientific Method is a method scientists use to get accurate results from their experiments.

Most pages below have a 10 questionscience quiz at the bottom to help review the material.

Go here forkids scientific experiments and projects on Electricity, Sound, Weather, the Solar System, and more. You can also go here to learn more about scientists and inventors.

Activities

Science Crossword Puzzles
Science Word Searches
Science Quizzes

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Kids learn about science including educational subjects biology, chemistry, physics, earth science, astronomy, environment, genetics, and more. Activities, questions, and experiments for students and teachers.

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Lesson Plan Template for Students and Probationers

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Starting a new job is never easy. Especially if it involves standing in front of 20-30 wee ones who are there to learn from you. One of the biggest challenges is to structure interactive and informative lessons that kids enjoy. So let us help you! This Lesson Plan Template for Students and Probation…

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Cambridge Dictionary | English Dictionary, Translations & Thesaurus

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The most popular dictionary and thesaurus for learners of English. Meanings and definitions of words with pronunciations and translations.

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Synonyms for big

Synonyms for big

carrying a developing fetus within the uterus

full to the point of flowing over

willing to give of oneself and one's possessions

Synonyms for big

above average in size or number or quantity or magnitude or extent

conspicuous in position or importance

exhibiting self-importance

(of animals) fully developed

marked by intense physical force

generous and understanding and tolerant

in an advanced stage of pregnancy

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By supporting Scottish Book Trust, you're helping children like Isla. Laura Robertson, a Senior Early Years Officer at a nursery in Fife, shared Isla's story with us.

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By supporting Scottish Book Trust, you're helping children like Isla. Laura Robertson, a Senior Early Years Officer at a nursery in Fife, shared Isla's story with us. 'I've known baby Isla* since she was six weeks old.

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Listen to the world's best poetry read out loud. Explore 100s of poems read by the poets themselves. Read along or listen distraction free.

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Interactive and create programming software for children

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Scratch is a free programming language and online community where you can create your own interactive stories, games, and animations.

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Why ICT is important and what it can mean for education. An interesting read.

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What is ICT?

Growing up in an ICT-rich environment means that children need to have opportunities to experience and develop skills in its use that will help them make the most of adult life. Contrary to what we often think, ICT isn't simply about computers but includes anything that requires the input of instructions to produce specific outcomes. That's your answering machine, mobile phone, DVD player, washing machine, traffic lights and even speed cameras.

ICT in schools

Computing capability is an essential skill for life and enables learners to participate more readily in a rapidly changing world. Using the internet and email, for example, gives them rapid access to ideas and experiences from a wide range of people, communities and cultures.

Learning about control systems and robots increases children's awareness of many of the operating systems we use to manage our everyday lives. You could say that it develops essential life skills they will need in adult life, such as operating a washing machine and other devices.

ICT is incorporated into practically every lesson your child participates in at school, with the exception of physical education. In secondary school, children will typically have ICT classes that are lessons in their own right.

Whatever stage of learning your child is at, ICT can help motivate stimulate or if necessary, re-engage them. Challenging tasks become more manageable and mundane activities more accessible. Some schools also find that children reach higher levels when technology is made a part of lessons.

Using software at home

Since ICT can be so beneficial children ideally need access to high quality technology when they want it, not just for a few hours a week in the classroom. If possible, using software at home is ideal and can help parents become more aware of and involved in what their children are learning at school.

Speak to your child's school in order to find out how the software can support and extend their learning. Certain aspects may be more useful than others at particular times and teachers will be able to give you an accurate indication of what your child's learning needs are and also what aspects of the curriculum are being studied when in school.

Find out what your child hopes to achieve through using ICT. You don't want to control what they are doing and exploring its potential is always useful. But for them to benefit fully it is important to maintain a specific learning focus.

Use common sense to gauge what your child is enjoying and finding beneficial. Help them decide what is good for them and to work out when they need to move on to something different.

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Growing up in an ICT-rich environment means that children need to have opportunities to experience and develop skills in its use that will help them make the most of adult life. Contrary to what we often think, ICT isn't simply about computers but includes anything that requires the input of instructions to produce specific outcomes.