Maths and Science

Q I am a maths teacher in a small, coastal secondary school. Our students are great, and we are blessed with really supportive families,…

By the time students enter their secondary education, many will have developed maths anxiety, a debilitating condition that causes sufferers…

Q I am head of the science department at an academy in a coastal area, serving a catchment where an unusually high number of families are…

Telling your wife you have a crush on someone else can be a tad awkward. That awkwardness multiplies when you explain that your crush is on…

If you’re a veteran of departmental field trips with your pupils you’ll know that no matter how great your lesson plans, how inspiring…

The final phase of drugs testing and clinical trials are human trials. These are the last hurdle before groundbreaking new treatments can be…

We all want to see students actively and enthusiastically learning about science. We’d like the same from teachers, too. But how do you…

Albert Einstein predicted the existence of gravitational waves as part of his general theory of relativity in 1916. Long undetected, they…

To many KS4 students, algebra is morass of letters, numbers and symbols which have to be manipulated according to arbitrary and pointless…

Inspired by the recent discovery of new elements in the periodic table, this lesson will help your students to learn about how elements have…

Expanding brackets and collecting like terms to simplify expressions are perhaps not the most exciting of mathematical topics, but fluency…

We live in an age where robotics is commonplace. Robots build cars for us, carry out medical operations and can even check us into a hotel…

There’s been a lot of talk over the past decade about the need for more people holding science, technology, engineering and mathematics…