One of my colleagues just told me about a really good website in America (Kuta Software) that provides free trials for its maths worksheet software. I just took a look at the site and you can download many free algebra worksheets, with answers. You can also buy the software to create your own customised sheets. An ideal resource for producing last-minute lessons. Right, I must go and plan my Year 8 lesson for today.
June 4, 2009
May 21, 2009
Dimensional Analysis
Here is a dimensional analysis multiple choice starter that I made very quickly. It has 10 questions and is ideal to use as a short test or starter where the pupils can hold up cards or whiteboards with their answers.
April 24, 2009
C2 Differentiation
Here are some Edexcel C2 past paper questions where you have to use differentiation. Click on each thumbnail to view it in a new window.
C2 June 2005 Q1
C2 Jan 2006 Q7
C2 June 2006 Q10
C2 Jan 2007 Q8
April 21, 2009
S2 Past Papers
I am trying to find a way of making the S2 module revision slightly more interesting for my pupils and so am preparing some quizzes on Powerpoint based on past exams. I shall be adding them below as and when I make them.
April 1, 2009
S1 Past Paper Questions
I have been trawling through S1 Edexcel past papers from the past 7 years and I am putting together some compilations of questions from the topic areas. I will be adding more soon.
March 19, 2009
Trial and Improvement
Tomorrow I am about to start teaching Trial and Improvement to my Year 9 class and realised that I don’t have any fun resources on this topic.
I did a Google search and found a nice website outlining some lesson ideas.
Here is a link to a lovely spreadsheet simulation that gets the idea across pretty quickly and links to this starter problem. Click on the image to take you to the online simulation.
Once your pupils are ok with this, you can play a class game where pupils win imaginary money for their estimates.
Click on the image below to take you to another interactive online game.
When they get really good, there is a more advanced version they can play.
Many thanks to Maths Online for providing these wonderful resources free of charge. We like that.
March 15, 2009
GCSE Revision Presentations
I have just added a new page here with some GCSE Higher Level Revision Quizzes that I made with Google’s own version of Powerpoint. You can access this here.
March 9, 2009
Formulae Booklet for A Level Edexcel
You can download a copy of the most recent formulae booklet for Edexcel here.
This version is for the exams from Jan 2009 onwards.
Statistical tables can be found within this booklet.
March 4, 2009
Stopwatch
Here is a lovely link to a great online Stopwatch that you can display in lessons to make pupils work to a time limit:
February 10, 2009
Graph Paper
There are loads of different websites that enable you to make many kinds of graph paper. Often the results are not pleasing after they have been printed.
Today I was printing off some isometric dotty paper for one of my classes and found this excellent site (Sharpe Maths) that allows you to specify the dot or line thicknesses and colours that you require.
