Things you can do/join/follow

• Questions Inspired by a News Story blog by Mr Dawes (by using these first you will then become more confident just using articles you have seen the day before or that morning to generate discussions and problems - http://quibans.blogspot.com/

• Listen to BBC R4 More or Less - www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006qshd

• Dave Gale’s blog on beginning to teach Core Maths - https://bit.ly/2LYWjJa

• use #coremaths on Twitter

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Resources

• Stem Resources for Core Maths - https://bit.ly/2zjyZDA

• News Articles to generate discussion - http://quibans.blogspot.com/

• NRICH Resources for Core Maths - https://nrich.maths.org/coremaths

• Jack Brown’s website containing past papers, glossary, resources - https://bit.ly/3ecPKPs

• Homework generator for AQA Paper 1 by Jon Cox - https://bit.ly/2WXeBRp

• Fermi Estimation Questions by Dave Gale - https://bit.ly/2LSmi5a

• Resourceaholic Stats lessons (lots of overlap with Core) - https://bit.ly/3gnaCpg

• Amazing graphs and data from gapminder - https://bit.ly/3ecbrzd

Articles to Inspire Core Maths lessons

• 100 Women: How Hollywood fails women on screen - A film passes the Bechdel Test if it has two named female characters who talk to each other about something other than a man - www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-43197774

• Spending on Schools in England - https://fullfact.org/education/spending-schools-england/

• Are junior doctors paid enough to get a Visa? - https://fullfact.org/health/junior-doctors-visa/

• More people apply to Love Island than Oxbridge - https://bit.ly/3cZ6TMt

• Bank of England raises interest rates ‘what effect would this have on someone with a £X mortgage?’ - https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-45043776

• Inequality in Food Consumption - https://ourworldindata.org/food-per-person

• Article – what Airbnb really does to a neighbourhood - www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-45083954

• Jon Cox Festival lesson and another recent article on tents left behind at Reading (estimate how many tents based on this area and potential volume of landfill generated) - https://bit.ly/3cY1ULO

• In World’s ‘Happiest’ Countries, Signs of a Happiness Gap – critique research on happiness levels and re-write the article with a positive spin - https://nyti.ms/2TycqBZ

• Is under 130k people attending Papal Mass in Phoenix park a fair estimate given the area and observation of the photograph (start from how many fit into a m2 – I tape one on the floor and get students up 1 by 1 to see how many will fit and how this reflected in the picture) - https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DliDt1DU8AIoudR.jpg

• How deep is your tube station? - https://bit.ly/3cZC8H9

• Map of European Countries with Population smaller than London - https://bit.ly/3eezeyl

• Lorry spills chocolate on Polish Motorway - https://bit.ly/3bZOmOG

• ‘Students urged to urinate in shower’ - justify the statement 'save enough water to fill an Olympic-sized swimming pool 26 times' - https://bbc.in/2yzlLSM

Materials to use with department

• Core Maths Case Studies - https://bit.ly/2A8er0x

• MEI Conference Core Maths PowerPoints 2018

• Core Maths and art of estimation - http://mei.org.uk/files/conference18/B3.pdf

• Getting Started with Core Maths - http://mei.org.uk/files/conference18/D3.pdf

• Teaching OCR Core Maths – a teacher’s perspective -  http://mei.org.uk/files/conference18/C3.pdf

• Problem Solving in Core Maths - http://mei.org.uk/files/conference18/J6.pdf

• Core Maths ideas for GCSE - http://mei.org.uk/files/conference18/K3.pdf

• Statistical ideas in Core Maths - http://mei.org.uk/files/conference18/L3.pdf