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

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.

The 66th in Mr Barton's Autograph Video tutorial series. The second of the Autograph Puzzle Trilogy! Here we look at another a lovely pencil and paper puzzle inspired by Don Steward’s amazing Median Maths Blog. Students are given four co-ordinates and asked to consider the shape that would be formed by joining up the midpoints of pairs of these co-ordinates. What type of quadrilateral is it? How do they know? We can then turn to Autograph to construct the puzzle and investigate it even further. Click on the link to see all my Autograph videos

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 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

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.

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.

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.

The 64th in Mr Barton's Autograph Video tutorial series. Should you find yourself needing to teach the transformation of matrices, it would be nice to have some dynamic geometry package to help you along the way through this very visual topic. This is where Autograph steps in! In this video we look at carrying out simple transformations, and then a few twists: using the animation controller to repeat the transformation, using a constant controller to change elements of the matrix, and finally combining two matrix transformations together.

I know, I know, guilty as charged! This week’s Web Whizz video features my website. However, hopefully you will forgive me when you see the brand new and completely free Autograph Player activities that are now available. Unlike Autograph files, these activities do not need the software installed, which means you can use them completely freely to demonstrate topics in class, or set them as homework assignments for your students. Here we look at activities about transformations, angles, circle theorem, battleships and scatter diagrams.

The 63rd in Mr Barton's Autograph Video tutorial series. This is the much-anticipated(!) sequel to last week’s Line Symmetry in Rectangles. Here we look at how we might create an Autograph page to look at line symmetry more generally by allowing us to alter the original shape. This requires a sneaky use of vectors, and this technique may have applications in other Autograph activities that you may wish to create. Clicking on the web-link you can see all the videos in this series.

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 tutorial we have a look at Autograph's uniquely useful onscreen keyboard: for controlling Autograph, entering mathematical notation and changing languages. 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!

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 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!

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. This tutorial video looks at using Autograph to introduce the straight line and its gradient (slope), and the quadratic and its various transformations. 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!

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.