Mensuration
Prism People - TN
Exploring prisms by making them! Students are asked to build model robots from different types of prisms. The practical element of building a prism is used to help students discover the related features...
Mensuration
Rectangular Relations TN Free
One of the challenges of mathematics is to provide opportunities for students to be creative with their mathematics, and to find activities that allow students of differing abilities to obtain satisfaction...
Getting started
Lisbon - November 2011 Free
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,...
Blog
Optimal Cuboid Free
This blog post is just a quick way of sharing an idea that is developing. I love it when ideas pop in to your head as you are teaching and you just go with them. Its a risk, but some times brilliant...
Getting started
Oxford - October 2011 Free
'Oxford University department of Educational Studies - A presentation/workshop for PGCE students' The principle aim of this session is to look at how ICT is so much more than just a medium for mathematics...
Algebra and Graphs
Exploring Expressions TN
What confuses a number of students is the idea of letter as “variable”. That algebra generalises the laws of numbers by allowing a letter to represent any number we choose, not only a single number (letter...
Algebra and Graphs
Consecutive Proofs TN
In this investigation, students explore the sums of consecutive numbers and their divisors with the hope of discovering and proving that the sum of n consecutive numbers is divisible by n when n is odd. ...
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Education Revolution Free
In this entry I am writing down some of the thoughts I have following two things that I have paid attention to this week. The first is the TEDxLondon event on the theme ‘Education Revolution’. The second...
Mensuration
Body Surface Area TN Free
This is a great practical investigation with real life applications. It encourages students to think critically about area. Working in small groups students are asked to find an approximation for the...
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Physical Manipulatives Free
Pick it up and move it around! This is a brief reflection on my experiences this week in thinking about the merits of physical Vs virtual manipulatives. Working in a school with a one to one laptop programme...