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What's the Weather Like?

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With access to weather station data, what interesting questions can you investigate?

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Consecutive Negative Numbers

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Do you notice anything about the solutions when you add and/or subtract consecutive negative numbers?

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Perception Versus Reality

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Infographics are a powerful way of communicating statistical information. Can you come up with your own?

A silver magic wand and confetti on a blue background.

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Magic Constants

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In a Magic Square all the rows, columns and diagonals add to the 'Magic Constant'. How would you change the magic constant of this square?

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Grouping Goodies

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Pat counts her sweets in different groups and both times she has some left over. How many sweets could she have had?

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Three Cubes

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Can you work out the dimensions of the three cubes?

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A New Challenge

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In this article for teachers, Bernard gives some background about the theme for November 2011's primary activities, which focus on analysing different approaches.

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Practical Ways for Departments and Teachers to Work Together

5: Introducing and developing STEM in the classroom.

$Easy as \abc$

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Easy as Abc

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Get your teeth into the abc conjecture

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