Circle Theorems

Investigating angles of isosceles triangles and cyclic quadrilaterals in a circle using the Virtual Geoboard, care of the lovely NRICH website.

UKMT Maths Challenges

The UKMT has recently added a teacher resource page to their website, allowing you to view digital versions of questions from the past papers for the Junior, Intermediate and Senior challenges. An excellent resource for starters for all Key Stages.

Worksheet Genius

Usually when I peruse the latest issue of the TES in our staff room, I look at the magazine and read all about the wonderful resources that are available online, and promptly forget about them as soon as I return to my class room anid the chaos of planning, marking and catching up on long-lost admin.

However, today I followed the link to a fabulous free resource called Worksheet Genius that enables you to produce your own worksheets in a matter of a few clicks. The worksheets are not as interesting as they could be, but when all you want is for your class to get lots of practice at something, these are ideal. You can also print off the answers. What could be better……

Singing Pi

The Pi Song

A Year 8 student in our school submitted this link to us after being inspired by the story of the Boy with the Incredible Brain TV programme, where the first several thousand decimal places of Pi were recited by someone who sees sequences of numbers as landscapes. A fanastic programme to watch with your classes. I found part 1 on Youtube (link above) and I am sure the rest are available on there also.

The Sine and Cosine Rules

Here are some lesson notes that I used to introduce my Y10 to the Cosine Rule. Suitable for GCSE Higher level students:

Cosine rule lesson 01 notes

Homework on Cosine Rule – finding missing sides:

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GCSE Higher Level Questions on Sine and Cosine Rules – six questions taken from AQA exams that nicely test a pupil’s ability to apply the rules to worded, real-life questions. Presented as a pdf to display to the class question by question:

Sine and Cosine Rules Exam Questions

C3 Trigonometry (Y13)

Here is a lesson plan introducing sec, cosec and cot. The original document was a Smart Notebook file.

C3 Chp6 Trig Lesson Plan

Exercise on proving basic trigonometric identities:

Area and Perimeter of Basic 2D Shapes

Homework Booklets

Areas of Rectangles hwk booklet - aimed at Y7 pupils but equally suitable for foundation GCSE students.

Kuta Software

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.

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.

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