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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.
The book is available in paperback and e-book form from Amazon and Tarquin.
The GTEN videos provide resources for differentiation and inclusion, with guidance and learning […]
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 […]
Games and puzzles are used to provide motivation for drill and practice, to review earlier work, and for assessment. Learners develop their understanding and creative skills by inventing their own puzzles and variations of the games.
The Checkit Game is enjoyed by all ages with variations including simple operations with whole numbers, fractions, […]
The picture shows some curves in the family of y = x cubed. Can you find the graph of this function and the equations of the other graphs? In this workshop guide you will find more examples of this type of ‘inverse problem’ where the learner is given information and has to […]
Some practical activities to help learners to tell the time on a 12 hour or 24 hour clock and to work out the lengths of time intervals.
This guide offers many suggestions for practical surveying tasks that can be done without needing any expensive equipment. Applications of trigonometry include measuring the length of your shadow and relating this to the angle of elevation of the sun and the time of day, measuring heights of buildings, trees and towers, navigation, […]
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