Thank you for downloading this free resource. Let us know how we are doing and leave us a review. Suitable for 11-18-year olds (secondary, middle and high schools), this article and accompanying activity sheet can be used in the classroom, in science/computer clubs and at home. This resource is internationally relevant but also links to KS3 Maths: reason mathematically, and Computer Science; and KS4 Maths: solve problems, and Computer Science. It can also be used as a careers resource and links to Gatsby Benchmarks: Gatsby Benchmark 2: Learning from career and labour market information Gatsby Benchmark 4: Linking curriculum learning to careers The article includes an example of a supply chain (Van’s shoes) and a summary of operations research and machine learning: what are they and how do they protect supply chains? There’s also an interview with Professor Larry Snyder, plus ideas on how to work in his field. The activity sheet includes discussion points - seven questions the students can answer in groups or individually-, and games for the students to play such as the root beer game and surviving a zombie apocalypse. This resource was first published on Futurum Careers, a free online resource and magazine aimed at encouraging 14-19-year-olds worldwide to pursue careers in science, tech, engineering, maths, medicine (STEM) and social sciences, humanities and the arts for people and the economy (SHAPE). If you like these free resources – or have suggestions for improvements –, please let us know and leave us some feedback. Thank you!

Thank you for downloading this free resource. Let us know how we are doing and leave us a review. Suitable for 11-18-year olds (secondary, middle and high schools), this article and accompanying activity sheet can be used in the classroom, in science/computer clubs and at home. This resource is internationally relevant but also links to KS3 Computer Science: Can understand and apply the fundamental principles and concepts of computer science, including abstraction, logic, algorithms and data representation. It can also be used as a careers resource and links to Gatsby Benchmarks: Gatsby Benchmark 2: Learning from career and labour market information Gatsby Benchmark 4: Linking curriculum learning to careers The article includes a summary of an algorithms/robotics research project, an interview with computer scientist Dr Andrea Richa and an overview of computer science i.e. what is computer science and how do you become a computer scientist? The activity sheet includes discussion points - eight questions the students can answer in groups or individually. There are also links to other relevant resources from TED and the BBC. This resource was first published on Futurum Careers, a free online resource and magazine aimed at encouraging 14-19-year-olds worldwide to pursue careers in science, tech, engineering, maths, medicine (STEM) and social sciences, humanities and the arts for people and the economy (SHAPE). If you like these free resources – or have suggestions for improvements –, please let us know and leave us some feedback. Thank you!

Thank you for downloading this free resource. Let us know how we are doing and leave us a review. Suitable for 14-19-year olds (secondary and high schools, and college), this article and accompanying activity sheet can be used in the classroom, STEM clubs and at home. This resource links to KS4 and KS5 Maths and Computing. . It can also be used as a careers resource and links to Gatsby Benchmarks: Gatsby Benchmark 2: Learning from career and labour market information Gatsby Benchmark 4: Linking curriculum learning to careers • This teaching resource explains the work of Dr Eric Chi, a data scientist based at North Carolina State University in the US, who investigates patterns in massive datasets. His research provides insights into voting, consumer film preferences and neuroscience studies, to name but a few areas! • This resource also contains an interview with Dr Chi and a student who has worked with him on a data science training programme. • The activity sheet provides ‘talking points’ (based on Bloom’s Taxonomy) to prompt students to reflect on Dr Chi’s research and challenges them to look at different scenarios from a data science perspective. This resource was first published on Futurum Careers, a free online resource and magazine aimed at encouraging 14-19-year-olds worldwide to pursue careers in science, tech, engineering, maths, medicine (STEM) and social sciences, humanities and the arts for people and the economy (SHAPE). If you like these free resources – or have suggestions for improvements –, please let us know and leave us some feedback. Thank you!

Thank you for downloading this free resource. Let us know how we are doing and leave us a review. Suitable for 14-19-year olds (secondary and high schools, and college), this article and accompanying activity sheet can be used in the classroom, STEM clubs and at home. This resource links to KS4 and KS5 Mathematics and Biology It can also be used as a careers resource and links to Gatsby Benchmarks: Gatsby Benchmark 2: Learning from career and labour market information Gatsby Benchmark 4: Linking curriculum learning to careers This teaching resource explains the work of Dr Bard Ermentrout, of the University of Pittsburgh in the US, who uses advanced mathematics to decipher patterns in nature, from seasons to colour schemes to heartbeats. This resource also contains an interview with Dr Ermentrout. The activity sheet provides ‘talking points’ (based on Bloom’s Taxonomy) to prompt students to reflect on Dr Ermentrout’s research and taks for students to explore patterns in nature themselves. This resource was first published on Futurum Careers, a free online resource and magazine aimed at encouraging 14-19-year-olds worldwide to pursue careers in science, tech, engineering, maths, medicine (STEM) and social sciences, humanities and the arts for people and the economy (SHAPE). If you like these free resources – or have suggestions for improvements –, please let us know and leave us some feedback. Thank you!

Thank you for downloading this free resource. Let us know how we are doing and leave us a review. Suitable for 14-19-year olds (secondary and high schools, and college), this article and accompanying activity sheet can be used in the classroom, STEM clubs and at home. This resource links to KS4 and KS5 Mathematics. It can also be used as a careers resource and links to Gatsby Benchmarks: Gatsby Benchmark 2: Learning from career and labour market information Gatsby Benchmark 4: Linking curriculum learning to careers This teaching resource explains the work of Dr Sam Ballas, based at Florida State University in the US, which focuses on geometry and surfaces. This resource also contains an interview with Sam. The activity sheet provides ‘talking points’ (based on Bloom’s Taxonomy), to prompt students to reflect on Sam’s research, and a genus challenge he has set students. If you or your students have a question for Sam – if you are intrigued by the challenge he’s set on his activity sheet – send him a message. He will reply! Go to the article using the Futurum link below and scroll to the bottom of the page. This resource was first published on Futurum Careers, a free online resource and magazine aimed at encouraging 14-19-year-olds worldwide to pursue careers in science, tech, engineering, maths, medicine (STEM) and social sciences, humanities and the arts for people and the economy (SHAPE). If you like these free resources – or have suggestions for improvements –, please let us know and leave us some feedback. Thank you!

Thank you for downloading this free resource. Let us know how we are doing and leave us a review. Suitable for 14-19-year olds (secondary and high schools, and college), this article and accompanying activity sheet can be used in the classroom, STEM clubs and at home. This resource links to KS4 and KS5 Maths and Computer Science It can also be used as a careers resource and links to Gatsby Benchmarks: Gatsby Benchmark 2: Learning from career and labour market information Gatsby Benchmark 4: Linking curriculum learning to careers This teaching resource explains the work of Dr Wenya Xu who was part of a team at Jackson State University in the US which devised a learning tool that uses augmented reality to help students learn trigonometry. This resource also contains an interview with Dr Xu. The activity sheet provides ‘talking points’ (based on Bloom’s Taxonomy) to prompt students to reflect on Dr Xu’s research and activities that consider further uses of AR in the classroom. This resource was first published on Futurum Careers, a free online resource and magazine aimed at encouraging 14-19-year-olds worldwide to pursue careers in science, tech, engineering, maths, medicine (STEM) and social sciences, humanities and the arts for people and the economy (SHAPE). If you like these free resources – or have suggestions for improvements –, please let us know and leave us some feedback. Thank you!

Suitable for 14-19-year olds (secondary and high schools, and college), this article and accompanying activity sheet can be used in the classroom, STEM/maths clubs and at home. This resource links to KS4 and KS5 Maths and is also internationally relevant. It can also be used as a careers resource and links to Gatsby Benchmarks: Gatsby Benchmark 2: Learning from career and labour market information Gatsby Benchmark 4: Linking curriculum learning to careers • What can a seemingly simple puzzle - the Tower of Hanoi - teach us about mathematics? Professor Dan Romik, of the University of California, Davis, has investigated the Tower of Hanoi and, despite the puzzle’s apparent simplicity, has shown that it continues to yield new surprises. • This resource explains recursion, graphical representation, fractals and shortest paths - all using the Tower of Hanoi as the foundation. • The activity sheet provides ‘talking points’ (based on Bloom’s Taxonomy) to prompt students to reflect on Dan’s research and challenges them to solve the Tower of Hanoi. This resource was first published on Futurum Careers, a free online resource and magazine aimed at encouraging 14-19-year-olds worldwide to pursue careers in science, tech, engineering, maths, medicine (STEM) and social sciences, humanities and the arts for people and the economy (SHAPE). If you like these free resources – or have suggestions for improvements –, please let us know and leave us some feedback. Thank you!

Suitable for 14 to 19-year-olds (secondary and high schools, and college), this article and accompanying activity sheet can be used in the classroom, STEM clubs and at home. This resource links to KS4 and KS5 Mathematics and Biology. It can also be used as a careers resource and links to Gatsby Benchmarks: Gatsby Benchmark 2: Learning from career and labour market information Gatsby Benchmark 4: Linking curriculum learning to careers • This teaching resource explains the work of Professor Andrew Nunn, an epidemiologist at the Medical Research Council Clinical Trials Unit at University College London in the UK, whose research focuses on clinical trials of drugs that have the potential to prevent and treat infectious diseases. He is currently working to develop a treatment regimen for a form of tuberculosis that is resistant to the most effective drugs commonly used. • This resource also contains an interview with Andrew. If you or your students have a question for him, you can submit it online – go to the article using the Futurum link below and scroll to the bottom of the page. Andrew will reply! • The activity sheet provides ‘talking points’ (based on Bloom’s Taxonomy) to prompt students to reflect on Andrew’s research, and tasks them to think about infectious diseases - and their treatments - impacting the world today. • The accompanying animation summarises Andrew’s research in an engaging and accessible way and comes with a script to help students access the information. • The PowerPoint reiterates the key points in the article and includes further talking points to encourage students to reflect on their own skills and aspirations. This resource was first published on Futurum Careers, a free online resource and magazine aimed at encouraging 14-19-year-olds worldwide to pursue careers in science, tech, engineering, maths, medicine (STEM) and social sciences, humanities and the arts for people and the economy (SHAPE). If you like these free resources – or have suggestions for improvements –, please let us know and leave us some feedback. Thank you!

Suitable for 14-19-year olds (secondary and high schools, and college), this article and accompanying activity sheet can be used in the classroom, STEM clubs and at home. This resource links to KS4 and KS5 maths, statistics and biology. It can also be used as a careers resource and links to Gatsby Benchmarks: Gatsby Benchmark 2: Learning from career and labour market information Gatsby Benchmark 4: Linking curriculum learning to careers • This teaching resource explains the work of Professor Joanna Mills Flemming, a statistician at Dalhousie University. She is developing statistical models to gain insights into ocean data, allowing her to uncover information about marine animals. • This resource also contains an interview with Joanna and offers an insight into careers in statistical ecology. If your students have questions for Joanna, they can send them through the Futurum Careers website. • The activity sheet provides ‘talking points’ (based on Bloom’s Taxonomy) to prompt students to reflect on Joanna’s research and challenges them to conduct their own statistical research project. This resource was first published by Futurum Careers, a free online resource and magazine aimed at encouraging 14-19-year-olds worldwide to pursue careers in science, tech, engineering, maths, medicine (STEM) and social sciences, humanities and the arts for people and the economy (SHAPE). If you like these free resources, or have suggestions for improvements, please let us know and leave us some feedback. Thank you!