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The homework debate! Free
The following blog post is a quick response the question above that has been posed by the #globalmath group on twitter who are having a debate on this topic this evening based on some responses to this Questionnaire....
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Using Games in Mathematics Free
Generally students enjoy playing games (who doesn't). Whilst we can find many attractive and fun games online I'm often disappointed with the quality of the questions. If it's fun, but the students don't...
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Visual Sequences Free
This has come up a couple of times recently and seeing a twitter discussion on 'brilliant activities using manipulatives' I decided to write this down quickly. This is a beautiful and simple activity...
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Craig Barton Recommends Teachmathematics Free
It's always nice to know that other mathematics teachers appreciate the site so it was a proud moment for the site to get a glowing testimony from Craig Barton AKA MrBartonmaths and the main man behind...
Statistics & Probability
Grime Dice TN
This activity is based around a set of transitive dice which have a rather surprising set of properties. They are NOT the classic 6-faced dice with numbers one through six on each face - they are far...
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Five great ideas for visualising number! Free
The abstraction of numbers is a fascinating topic for debate and discussion and the root of much confusion in secondary school mathematics students, not to mention many of the worlds adults! As teachers,...
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Visualising Indices - new direction Free
This activity comes around year after year for me and I love that each time you do an activity you come up with new ideas about how to develop it. It is even better when those new ideas come from students!...
Geometry
Similar Triangles TN Free
A great triangle mystery! These 24 triangles can be split in to 8 groups of 3 similar triangles by matching the angles. Once in groups students can use proportional reasoning to work out the missing lengths...
Getting started
Graphing Free
Here you will find support materials for some of the basic and more advanced capabilies of graphing in Geogebra. You may wish to keep your own notes on the printed copies of the worksheets that are embedded...
Trigonometry
Sine Cosine Transformations Tech Help
Formatting the page y=sinx+c or y=cosx+c transformations Formatting Grid Lines, Axes and Setting the Scale to Degrees Finding the exact coordinates of the maximum, minimum and x-intercepts Locating...