Friday 20 March 2009

Using Geometer's Sketchpad

1. Specific tasks

The tools; constructing a basic figure; animating points, segments and shapes; constructing an equilateral triangle, parallel and perpendicular lines through a given point, perpendicular bisectors, midpoints

The three centres of a triangle; Euclid's line

2. Useful resources

Getting started with... (ATM) - booklet in folder
GSP learning guide/reference manual/teaching notes - in folder
The Geometer's Sketchpad Resource Centre - General Resources
Some exercises for students
Lots of resources and links
Instructions for using polar coordinates
Nate Burchell's GSP files

3. To learn next

Adding measurements; angle bisector; drawing arcs

4. And then...

Fractals, tiling, graphs...

Thursday 12 March 2009

Maths At Work

A series of videos showing how maths is used in the workplace (from NCETM):
http://www.ncetm.org.uk/Default.aspx?page=13&module=res&mode=100&resid=11329

Rich mathematical tasks for KS3

Tasks and resources from the East Midlands Maths Network:
http://emmaths.jfcs.org.uk/

Guidance and ideas for incorporating rich tasks into your curriculum:
http://nrich.maths.org/public/viewer.php?obj_id=6089&part=index

Quadratic and Linear Inequalities

Free worksheets from Kuta Software:
http://www.kutasoftware.com/free.html

Online lessons at Purplemath (lots of algebra support).