Posts by: toni
Click here for the Belt Around the Earth GTEN workshop video. It features problems with some surprising results about the width of paths around 2D and 3D shapes when the perimeter of the outer edge of the path is a given amount more than the perimeter of the inner edge
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Click here for the Mean Median and Mode GTEN workshop video featuring learning activities to develop familiarity with, and understaning of, the different averages. The M, M and M Game calls for working systematically to find all the sets of numbers that have a given mean, median and mode.
The Global […]
Click here for the Handshakes or Bows GTEN workshop video featuring a groupwork People Maths investigation suitable for primary or secondary classes. This leads to spotting number patterns and a sequence and, for older learners, the formula for summing artihmetic series.
The Global Teacher Empowerment Network (GTEN) videos provide resources for differentiation […]
Click here for the How Many Factors GTEN workshop video. The workshop features learning activities for different age groups on the theme of factors and multiples, cycles and clock arithmetic. It includes a People Maths activity where learners stand in a circle and make a star by passing string around, then investigate […]
Click here for the Fractals GTEN workshop video featuring the properties of fractals and how they appear in nature, and also the construction of the Sierpinski Triangle and Tetrahedron and other fractals.
The GTEN videos provide resources for differentiation and inclusion, with guidance and learning activities that follow a spiral learning […]
Click here for the Learning Through Play GTEN workshop video featuring the pedagogy of learning through play and games from the Let’s Play Mathematically book.
Click here for the PDF of the slides from this workshop. This PDF has the rules of 36 games from the Let’s Play Mathematically book […]
Download a pdf giving a large collection of learning activities using geoboards. The document is written for teachers to use if they run their own professional development workshops but also for teachers working alone..
The activities are all suitable for use in lessons. Word documents are provided so that you can easily use the […]
The diagram shows the first three patterns in a sequence in which each pattern has a hole in the middle.
Draw the 4th and 5th pattern in the sequence.
How many small squares are needed to build the tenth pattern in the sequence?
What abouth the hundredth pattern?
Investigate inscribed circles of right-angled triangles that have edges of integer length.
(1) Draw a 3-4-5 right-angled triangle on a grid. Using compasses construct the internal bisectors of the angles of the triangle and then draw the inscribed circle (we’ll call it an incircle). What do you notice? (2) […]
Using the digits 2, 0 2 and 6 each exactly once, write a mathematical expression for each digit between 1 and 100. You may use any mathematical symbol or operation of your choosing. Multi-digits are permitted, so you can use 20, 62, .02 etc.
These challenges have been issued by Maths Week England which will […]
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