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Non-Specialist Teachers: Your Maths Subject Knowledge
Mathematics Subject Knowledge Audits/Self-evaluations and Tests These have been found useful by beginning teachers in training and also by teachers trained in other subjects. Each one is different some provide ideas about how to...
Non-Specialist Teachers: GCSE Exam Boards
Exam Boards There are 3 in England and another for Wales. Typically they provide the relevant specifications, guidance, materials and information about support and training. There are opportunities to sign up for aditional materials, including papers and mark schemes...
Secondary Maths Curriculum
It is essential that you know what mathematics needs to be taught, how best to teach it and how it might have changed since you were at school. Key Stage 3 document Key Stage 4 document Key Stage 3 document It is important to be aware of the section Working...
The Garden of Cosmic Speculation – 6 May 2018 Visit
Visited the Garden of Cosmic Speculation on its only day of annual opening this year (Sunday of first May bank holiday). Thoroughly enjoyed it. It's near to Dumfries in Scotland. It's good how you can spiral up and down the peaks without crossing - not obvious how it...
Pie Chart Resources
Introductory lesson plan for pie charts including pie chart blanks with 24, 30, 36, 40, and 50 spokes (pdf file). Flipchart for pie charts lesson. Excel file to create pie chart for travel to school data (can be adapted) from frequency table. Includes pie chart blanks...
Printable Paper
Introductory lesson plan for pie charts including pie chart blanks with 24, 30, 36, 40, and 50 spokes (pdf file). Flipchart for pie charts lesson. Excel file to create pie chart for travel to school data (can be adapted) from frequency table. Includes pie chart blanks...
Using Trigonometry
Sites that offer isometric, square, circular geoboard paper (ie grid/dotty/spotty) include the brilliant nRich site and the excellent Illuminations site. Click for an excel file here for Square Grid blanks of Dots between 3 and 25 dots across here for Circular Grid...
Factors of 24 Image
Updated May 2018 Trigonometry: use in finding heights These excellent materials were designed at Leeds Metropolitan University and are excellent for seeing trigonometry in real use. Teacher/pupil task sheet with Clinometer...
Fractals and Chaos books
What do you and pupils see when you look at this image without the prompts? This image is about Factors of 24 and can lead on to an exploration of factors (which is directly linked to fractions with 24 as a denominator). Teacher notes with answers...
Circles
Here's a great set of books on fractals Great to get your head round fractals. Purchasing info below. Click on each title to buy separately from Amazon. Fractals Everywhere: The First Course in Deterministic Fractal Geometry ISBN 0-120-79062-9 One of the best books to...