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Lesson plan: KS3 science – UFOs
Are we alone in the Universe? This age old question has gained momentum recently with scientific heavyweights such as Stephen Hawking…
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Lesson Plan: KS3 Maths – Teach Angles with Clocks
Students often approach the topic of angles by memorising lots of vocabulary (acute, obtuse, right angle, etc.) and ‘facts’ about angles…
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What’s wrong with the QTS professional skills tests?
Before you can train to become a teacher you need to satisfy certain mandatory conditions set by the DfE – one of which is to have GCSE…
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Lesson plan: KS4 science – doping in sport
The job of the athlete is to push him/herself to the limit of human capabilities and endurance. Sports such as athletics, cycling and…
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Lesson Plan: KS4 Maths – The Meaning of the Mean
Many students will know how to calculate the mean: they add up all the numbers and divide by how many there are. However, it is common to…
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Lesson plan: KS4 chemistry – the science of food
A popular phrase is that chemistry is “just like cooking”. But can you learn about chemistry and cooking at the same time? Welcome…
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Why Hannah’s sweets made sense
As I write it’s 30 days on from the Edexcel GCSE maths exam and people are still openly trolling Hannah about her sweets on Facebook and…
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Product review – Edexcel and AQA GCSE Maths
It’s easy to get excited about Edexcel GCSE Maths and AQA GCSE Maths from Oxford University Press. Not only are they are brand new and…
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Where have all the maths teachers gone?
We need more teachers across the board; But especially in maths, says Peter Ransom – so How can we start making the figures add up?
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Lesson plan: KS3 science – all about the weather
WHY TEACH THIS? Science and drama are not the most obvious crosscurricular combination links but there is no better topic for them to…
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Lesson plan: KS4 mathematics – perimeter and pythagoras’ theorem
WHY TEACH THIS? Optimisation, or finding the best possible solution to a problem, is an important real-life application of mathematics. We…
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Lesson plan: KS4 mathematics – making sense of geometrical situations
Geometrical constructions such as perpendicular bisectors and angle bisectors are often given to students as procedures to follow, and…
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GQ reform: Maths
From September, GCSE maths will be a fully linear course with an increase of approximately 15 per cent in subject content, greater…
