MEI has kindly shared the following resources to support the use of ICT in A/AS Level maths. These are practical activities that look at how we can use the TI-Nspire (graphical calculator) to enhance the study of sequences, series and trigonometry predominantly at AS level. These are ideal for use in a computer room or for students to investigate at home. The pdf file contains full instructions and challenges, and you can download all the supporting TI files by clicking on the weblink.

An Autograph Player activity to illustrate Vectors. Students must put Vector Man back together again. You can use this activity on the interactive whiteboard, or for your students to investigate on their own. Autograph does not need to be installed to use this activity (so your students can even use it at home), but you will need to install the free Autograph Player add-on (instructions given after clicking the link). For a full list of Autograph Activities, please click on the other web-link.

An Autograph Player activity to practise sketching quadratic graphs. You can use this activity on the interactive whiteboard, or for your students to investigate on their own. Autograph does not need to be installed to use this activity (so your students can even use it at home), but you will need to install the free Autograph Player add-on (instructions given after clicking the link). For a full list of Autograph Activities, please click on the other web-link.

An Autograph Player activity to illustrate The Angles in the Same Segment circle theorem. You can use this activity on the interactive whiteboard, or for your students to investigate on their own. Autograph does not need to be installed to use this activity (so your students can even use it at home), but you will need to install the free Autograph Player add-on (instructions given after clicking the link). For a full list of Autograph Activities, please click on the other web-link.

Douglas Butler, the creator of Autograph, has produced 7 high quality tutorial videos to help you get the most out of the software. This tutorial video looks at using Autograph to introduce Calculus (differentiation and integration) and Trigonometry. Also available on TES are my own weekly set of Autograph videos, and lots of Autograph Player Activities that don’t even require Autograph to be installed!

Douglas Butler, the creator of Autograph, has produced 7 high quality tutorial videos to help you get the most out of the software. In this video we take a quick tour through www.autograph-maths.com and www.tsm-resources.com, finding videos, data, images, blogs, etc, images to support Autograph. Also available on TES are my own weekly set of Autograph videos, and lots of Autograph Player Activities that don’t even require Autograph to be installed!

In recent weeks I don’t mind confessing that I have become more than a little obsessed with Don Steward’s outstanding Median Blog. The quality and variety of the resources on offer is simply world class. I absolutely adore the almost random nature of the resources produced. In this video we need look no further than the first page to find top quality resources on a whole host of topics.

Douglas Butler, the creator of Autograph, has produced 7 high quality tutorial videos to help you get the most out of the software. This tutorial video looks at using Autograph to explore the Binomial and normal distributions, and the Central Limit Theorem. Also available on TES are my own weekly set of Autograph videos, and lots of Autograph Player Activities that don’t even require Autograph to be installed!

Douglas Butler, the creator of Autograph, has produced 7 high quality tutorial videos to help you get the most out of the software. This tutorial video takes you through some reflections, enlargement and rotations, then some work on circle geometry. Also available on TES are my own weekly set of Autograph videos, and lots of Autograph Player Activities that don’t even require Autograph to be installed!

Douglas Butler, the creator of Autograph, has produced 7 high quality tutorial videos to help you get the most out of the software. This tutorial video looks at using Autograph to explore bivariate data (and least squares regression), and to create standard statistical diagrams from raw data. Also available on TES are my own weekly set of Autograph videos, and lots of Autograph Player Activities that don’t even require Autograph to be installed!

An Autograph Player activity designed to investigate the Trapezium Rule as a numerical form of integration. You can use this activity on the interactive whiteboard, or for your students to investigate on their own. Autograph does not need to be installed to use this activity (so your students can even use it at home), but you will need to install the free Autograph Player add-on (instructions given after clicking the link). For a full list of Autograph Activities, please click on the other web-link.

An Autograph Player activity designed to help investigate the transformation of matrices. You can use this activity on the interactive whiteboard, or for your students to investigate on their own. Autograph does not need to be installed to use this activity (so your students can even use it at home), but you will need to install the free Autograph Player add-on (instructions given after clicking the link). For a full list of Autograph Activities, please click on the other web-link.

As a teacher, I am obsessed by questions. The best questions are those that get the students thinking and ignite their interests. This website, created by Dan Meyer, is all about interesting questions. When you visit the website you are presented with an image and asked to write down the first question that comes to mind. You can then access a whole back catalogue of images and questions on everything from gumball machines to dominoes. These provide outstanding stimuli for lessons, and highlight the practical and many varied uses of mathematics.

A cube in 3D. This could be used to introduce 3D Pythagoras or trigonometry. You can use this activity on the interactive whiteboard, or for your students to investigate on their own. Autograph does not need to be installed to use this activity (so your students can even use it at home), but you will need to install the free Autograph Player add-on (instructions given after clicking the link). For a full list of Autograph Activities, please click on the other web-link.

Over the last couple of months I have asked my TES Maths Panel to compile a series of Topic Specials on the major area of maths teaching. They were challenged to find 10 outstanding resources from the thousands freely available on TES to assemble into themed collections. These collections are now live on the website, and they are simply phenomenal. The range and quality of the resources kindly shared by TES users always amazes me, and these collections should help you dive straight in to the very best that TES has to offer. Thank you to the Panel for all their hard work!

The 52nd in Mr Barton's Autograph Video tutorial series. Just a quickie here about how you can use Autograph to add that finishing touch to your perfect worksheet. Whether you want a lovely set of axes, some square paper, or some old fashioned graph paper, Autograph can satisfy your needs. We also look at a handy way of getting the size of the grid and the number range just right! Clicking on the web-link you can see all the videos in this series.

Census at School provides a gold mine full of rich, interesting, relevant data that can spice up any statistics based lessons. Don’t worry if you haven’t had chance to register your students, you can still access ten years’ worth of questionnaires and data. In this video we take a look at how you can easily grab a sample of 100 students’ responses to the question: what superpower would you most desire? This can then be instantly changed into a pie chart, bar chart or whatever you want to compare to your own students results. Amazing stuff!

The 67th in Mr Barton's Autograph Video tutorial series. The final part of the Autograph Puzzle Trilogy! This week we take a look at the “Pizza Problem” – what is the maximum number of pieces you can cut a pizza up into making straight line slices? This is something I have always investigated using good old-fashioned pencils and rulers, but Autograph just adds that extra dimension, allowing students to move the cuts around without the need for lots of rubbings out. Can you and your students spot the pattern? Can you explain why? Click on the link to see all my Autograph videos

The 65th in Mr Barton's Autograph Video tutorial series. The first of the Autograph Puzzle Trilogy! Here we look at a lovely pencil and paper puzzle inspired by Don Steward’s amazing Median Maths Blog. Place any 3 points on a page and start leap-frogging over them. After a few leaps, do you notice anything? More importantly, can you explain/prove it? We look at how Autograph may be able to help us get to grips with what is going on. Click on the link to see all my Autograph videos

The first of the Trigonometric Trilogy! In this week’s video we take a look at a clever way of using Autograph to practice working out the length of missing sides using Trigonometry (sin, cos and tan) and Pythagoras. We begin by constructing a right-angled triangle, and then use a sneaky technique to cover up a measurement. The finished article can then be used in class or at home for infinite trigonometry practice! More on this next week!