Woodturning is my absolute favourite example of volumes of revolution and in this activity we extend this to even consider Rose Engines. What's a Rose Engine you ask? Well read on to find out...
A set of Autograph Activities finding equations to model butterflies. Motivated by a question on Twitter to @autographmaths, I started investigating equations for modelling the shape of butterflies for which polar coordinates were helpful and then considered a moving butterfly for which cartesian coordinates were a more natural fit.
A nice fun modelling exercise which could be very simply extended to other butterfly shapes, different routes, multiple butterflies, etc.
An Autograph Activity to demonstrate why the angles in a triangle add up to 180 degrees. The interesting thing about this activity is that it has no numbers! So really it is a demonstration that the angles in a triangle when put together form a straight line.
This activity was inspired by the awesome Oliver Byrne's 'The Elements of Euclid'. Mathematics is not just about numbers, using colours in this example hopefully demonstrates that.
Approximate the area under a curve using rectangles, and use Autograph Mathematics' Animation Controller to investigate what happens when the number of rectangles is increased.
Autograph Mathematics Slow Plot mode is used to encourage students to predict what coordinates the quadratic graph will go through before using the software for confirmation.
Autograph Mathematics helps you examine your understanding of the differentiation of trigonometric functions. Does it matter if we use radians or degrees?
Autograph Mathematics provides a fantastic way to visualise the error in lines of best fit. In this activity we use this visualisation to manually find the line of best fit.