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Motivate provides ...

Free online maths-based resources for schools.

Our online multi-media packs provide:

  • connections between the maths curriculum and everyday life
  • a mathematical basis for science, citizenship, and PSHE discussions
  • notes for teachers

 

Opportunities for students to ...

  • see how maths relates to real life and to other curriculum areas
  • engage with topical issues, using their mathematical knowledge to inform their discussion
  • find out what mathematicians actually do and the range of different contexts in which they work
  • develop their own maths
  • work collaboratively

Pack topics:

  • Maths and Our Health
    • "Eating bacon sandwiches is bad for you!" Evaluating risk
    • Epidemics: Modelling with mathematics
    • Life saving maths: How does vaccination work?
    • The economics of health: How do we decide?
    • The test is positive: But what are the odds it's wrong?
  • Disease Dynamics Schools Pack
  • Babylonian Maths

Between 1999 and 2010 ...

Motivate provided mathematically based videoconferences for schools.  The live VC programme has now ceased, but our experience in linking schools with expert speakers, with a range of rich collaborative investigative supporting resources, has been continued with our multi-media packs.

 

 

 


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