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Lego Mathematics Free
On Friday I attended a CPD session ran by Dominic P. Tremblay entitled ‘Everything is Awesome with LEGO® Math!’ as part of the Practical Pedagogies conference organised at our school. As you can imagine...
Getting started
TSM - July 2015
Objectives - To support workshop participants to get to grips with geogebra software and demonstrate its uses in the mathematics classroom. Aims - Participants should observe potential, get practice,...
Geometry
Impossible Triangles TN
These are just a few notes about this activity as well as the solutions (see table below)! This activity is so simple in nature that there is not a great need for lots of discussion here. I just wanted...
Algebra and Graphs
Surround TN Free
This is an excellent investigation to get students to describe the pattern generated by surrounding a shape with squares. They should be able to find a formula and link the formula to what they see. The...
Vectors and Transformations
Dr Who TN Free
This is a really absorbing and engaging puzzle that is rich with interesting mathematical behaviour. The essential learning objective for this activity is about scale factors of enlargement and repeated...
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Changes to the site Free
If you are reading this then it might be because you have noticed that many more of the activities that are on the site require a password for access. We are genuinely sorry if this has inconvenienced...
Number
Operating Fractions TN
Operations with fractions are, in my view, considerably more difficult to understand than is often thought. The line between teaching algorithms that work and understanding is greyer than in ever in this...
Number
Divisibility Free
Arrange the digits from 1 to 9 in such a way that the the number made by the first digit is divisible by 1, the number made by the first 2 digits is divisible by 2, the number made by the first 3 digits...
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Polygon Proofs Free
I have been playing with an old activity recently that was shown to me in my first year of teaching about three different ways to prove the interior angle of a polygon. In short, it involves starting...
Number
Measuring the World TN Free
Google Earth is a virtual globe. Students love zooming in and out and discovering different areas. The high quality digital imagery is so good that there is a feeling that one is actually peering live...