East of England Network Meeting March 2007-03-08

East of England Network Meeting March 2007-03-08

Recommended websites

geometry applets recommended

Recommended twice. Timed questions on the A level part of the site can be projected onto the board during revision periods, either for individual practice or group presentation of solutions.

Documents for sharing good practice - see Little Acorns Taking Root

My AS/A2 students use it and like it. It must be good.

On the list but I'm not sure why (Joan)

Prisoner mentioned but I couldn't find it

Has to be paid for

Easiteach KS3/KS4, Tarsia activities (lots of jigsaws), Powerpoints KS5

AS/A2 starting points for investigational approach

Good practice tests though many have problems with feed back.

Frequently updates activities and exercises at various levels – some interactive, some investigational. Most have been tried in schools and an outline of students activities and how they approach them is shown.

games/investigations/resources. Brilliant interactive games including “Mathionaire” and the numbers from “Countdown”.

Year 11 Grade C revision materials and Year 9 booster support materials. Aimed at teacher delivering intervention lessons.

Aimed at teachers of mathsKS3-5. All areas covered –resources, policies, activities, news, ICT…..

some good interactive resources eg angle guessing

Images search is excellent for illustrating visually with photographs, diagrams and plans

Some interactive resources. Aimed at teachers or students for revision, KS3-5, Years 9-12.

This site was useful in helping me to understand an alternative method for long division which many students are finding easier to cope with. The site steps through the double division. I trialled it with students and they readily attempted to solve problems successfully. The site allows you to type in your chosen number and divider, then takes you through the process step by step. The disadvantage of the site is that it doesnot permit decimal points. You remove the decimals and replace later.

This is the Skills for Life website for Abingdon and WitneyCollege. This is now one of the largest resource banks for literacy, numeracy and ESL. The resources have been created by tutors and are linked to the curricula.

This site is full of wonderful games created by the children at the school (with lots of help!). Although they relate to the primary curriculum, they are very suitable for Adult Skills for Life learners eg what’s my angle, a wonderful resource for teaching about angles and how to measure them with a protractor.

The School of Mathematics and Statistics, University of St Andrews, Scotland, Biography of Mathematicians page. Look up pretty much any mathematician (actually I think they have to have died!) and it will have pictures, a short biography, and a much lengthier biography. I like to flash photos of mathematicians connected with the topic we are covering (Descartes for Cartesian equations, Euler, Newton and Pascal are some of my favourites). Also has a searchable mathematician of the day, mathematicians who were born or died on a particular day. We print them out and have a mathematician of the day on our noticeboard.

A good graphical demonstration of the distribution of the sampling mean (AQA S1). Allows various aspects to be visualised including the mean of the sampling mean, the standard error, the Central Limit Theorem and the unbiased estimator of the mean and variance.

http//members.aol.com/jeff570/s.html

Earliest Known Uses of Some of the Words of Mathematics gives examples of the first use of mathematical words and often their derivation. For instance did you know that “Sine” is entirely based on a mistranslation from the Arabic!

You’ve probably used this but if not have a look. Wikipedia is an online encyclopaedia, written and refereed by anyone. In theory, that sounds as if the information may be dubious, but in practice it was found to be about as accurate as the online Encyclopedia Britannica and far more up to date about current affairs issues.

If you have any technical problems with computers(hardware, software and particularly programming – perhaps macros in Excel) I always tend to look in Google groups. A big database of Usenet (discussion groups) you can usually find someone else that has asked the question and hopefully someone else that has answered it! Google groups can be found as a link on the main Google webpage. (also have you discovered that Google can be used as a basic calculator. Try typing “6.4*5.3, or 4.7 metres in inches into the main search box)

Allows you to change a long and complex Web Address into one comprising of tinyurl.com/ plus a list of 6 or fewer letters, which links to the same web address. Much easier to read to student or to copy from a postcard!

Daily Sudoku for those end of term puzzles (or