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Resources for teaching mathematics, 11-14 /

This resource contains 50 ready-to-use mathematics lesson plans suitable for the whole department to use with learners aged 11-14. Each plan consists of a teacher's sheet which breaks down the lesson into time-allocated sections from starter through to homework, together with a photocopiable (o...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Foster, Colin, 1973- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London ; New York : Continuum, [2011]
Colección:Resources for teaching series.
Temas:
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction
  • 1. Amazing Ways: Counting the numbers of routes through a word maze
  • 2. Dividing Cakes: Partitioning fractions in different ways
  • 3. Draw a Picture: Drawing pictures using mathematical graphs
  • 4. Ever-Increasing Circles: Approximating the area of a circle by counting dots
  • 5. Factor Trees: Exploring patterns in prime factor trees
  • 6. Fiddling Averages: Investigating how averages can be manipulated
  • 7. Folding: Finding connections relating to flat folds
  • 8. Four Numbers: Generating and solving linear equations
  • 9. Four Weights: Making as many values as possible from four numbers
  • 10. Four-Star Hotels: Deducing the contents of a grid from the sums of columns and rows
  • 11. Fuel: Maximizing the amount of fuel that can be transferred across a desert
  • 12. Have a Megaday!: Converting time units and using standard prefixes
  • 13. How Far?: Devising a statistical experiment
  • 14. Infinity: Exploring a converging sequence
  • 15. Investigating Mirrors: Finding out what happens when you reflect more than once
  • 16. Journey Through a Word: Using bearings and distance to describe a route
  • 17. Ladders: Solving simultaneous equations and drawing straight-line graphs
  • 18. Make Twenty-Four: Using priority of operations to construct calculations
  • 19. Meeting Up: Finding out how straight lines relate to their equations
  • 20. Mystery Messages: Using frequency analysis to crack a substitution code
  • 21. Newspaper Pages: Investigating the pagination of newspapers and books
  • 22. One Cut: Categorizing the outcomes from one fold and one cut of a square
  • 23. Palindromic Numbers: Solving problems relating to palindromic numbers
  • 24. Percentage Puzzles: Practising mental percentage calculations
  • 25. Pizza Slices: Finding the areas and perimeters of circular sectors
  • 26. Rectilinear Shapes: Exploring angles and line segments in rectilinear shapes
  • 27. Regular Polygons: Understanding necessary and sufficient conditions in geometry
  • 28. Seven Divided by Three: Partitioning integers and finding patterns
  • 29. Shape Riddles: Understanding inclusive definitions
  • 30. Shapes Within Shapes: Relating numerical sequences to geometrical properties
  • 31. Sharing Camels: Using fractions to solve a remainder problem
  • 32. Simultaneous Investigation: Finding simultaneous equations with integer solutions
  • 33. Sinusoids: Examining the sine and cosine graphs
  • 34. Squares and Remainders: Exploring the divisibility properties of square numbers
  • 35. Squares and Roots: Finding out how square numbers and surds behave
  • 36. Star Polygons: Calculating angles in star polygons and drawing them
  • 37. Street Race: Using travel graphs to solve problems
  • 38. Symmetrical Possibilities: Finding examples of shapes with specified symmetries
  • 39. Take a Breath: Estimating and calculating using large numbers
  • 40. The Playground Problem: Solving a practical minimization problem
  • 41. The Tailor's Rule of Thumb: Testing statistical hypotheses relating to body proportions
  • 42. The Totient Function: Investigating patterns in reducible fractions
  • 43. Three Consecutive Numbers: Using algebra to prove relationships
  • 44. Transforming Graphs: Carrying out transformations on straight-line graphs
  • 45. Transport Problems: Solving complicated problems in the best possible way
  • 46. Trapped Squares: Exploring patterns relating to straight-line graphs
  • 47. Travel Arrangements: Making and interpreting travel graphs
  • 48. Triangle Angles: Using simple trigonometry to solve not-so-simple triangles
  • 49. Vanishing Lines: Explaining an optical illusion using gradient
  • 50. Water: Calculating volumes and lengths and finding connections
  • Other Resources
  • Index