A few different activities requiring learners to identify which average to use, or why particular averages can be misleading in some situations. I have a feeling that at least one of these isn’t an original question – please drop me a message if I’ve inadvertently plagiarised your resource!
Following on from last week’s MathsTLP, I dug out this task on differentiation from first principles – I designed this ages ago for an A Level taster session, but it works equally well to introduce differentiation when it comes up in the A Level syllabus. So we begin by looking at the gradient of a …
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These activities were inspired by Adam Boxer’s episode of Mr Barton Maths Podcast – specifically the section in which Adam mentioned teaching speed, distance and time by working with time calculations first. Unfortunately I didn’t record the timestamp, but if anyone fancies listening to the whole thing and letting me know, that would be cool… …
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Using algebra tiles to model expanding single brackets is really useful because learners can physically count out the required number of groups. There’s something fairly intuitive about brackets representing multiplication when you see the contents of the bracket represented as tiles rather than just algebraic terms. Introducing expanding brackets using algebra tiles So to start …
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First published March 2015, last updated October 2022 By the time I teach linear equations, I’ve already used algebra tiles quite a lot with learners to create algebraic expressions. After working through one-step equations and ensuring learners understand the processes involved (rather than just solving “by eye”), I move on to simple two-step linear equations. If learners …
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I attended MathsConf30 in Manchester this weekend, organised by Complete Maths/La Salle Education. MathsConfs are a fantastic day out and always really reinvigorating, and this one didn’t disappoint.
Each year, the PNC calculates and publishes the market prices for each of the presents featured in the Twelve Days of Christmas. Their website, which is definitely well worth a look, says: It all started 38 years ago as a way to engage clients of PNC’s predecessor, Provident National Bank in Philadelphia, during the traditionally …
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A lovely little activity with plenty of depth. Recording each day gives the sequence of triangular numbers (i.e. Day 1 = 1, Day 2 = 3, Day 3 = 6), and the total number of gifts, pleasingly, is 364 – one for each day of the year, apart from Christmas Day. As for the challenge, …
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