An Autograph Player activity designed to investigate cumulative frequency diagrams / curves. 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 video tutorial on how to use autograph for the geometric series at A Level. The 42nd in Mr Barton's Autograph Video tutorial series. Continuing our theme of all things statistical, this week we take a look at how Autograph might be used to introduce students to the concept of the Geometric Distribution, with a little helping hand from the Animation Controller! Clicking on the web-link you can see all the videos in this series.

A bingo game to test pupils' knowledge of indices.

A tutorial video from the Autograph team. A simple visual introduction to differentiation in calculus. Ideal for teaching C1. Clicking on the web-link below takes you to all the videos in this series.

A tutorial video from the Autograph team. We are going to investigate the vector equations of a line x = a + kb and a plane y = a + kb + µc. Clicking on the web-link below takes you to all the videos in this series.

A Tarsia activity on simple Fractions of Amounts. These type of activities can be used to consolidate understanding of a given topic, and foster positive group work and co-operative learning. For more ideas on how to use these types of activities (including twists!) and to download the latest version of the wonderful free software to open this resource (and create your own), just click on the web-link. If you have any comments, or spot any (non deliberate!) mistakes, please share them below. Many thanks to all the teachers who have helped me assemble these Tarsias over the years.

Bingo cards for the above game.

A very basic random number generator with editable parameters.

This word document worksheet activity helps with concentration and memory skills. Helps students remember facts such as these. A collective memory activity that conveys to pupils the importance of sequences, patterns and rules, as well as encouraging team work and communication. Suitable for KS3 and KS4 students.

Practice everything you could ever need to do with a decimal.

Can you work out the mean, median and mode of 5 numbers? Clicking on the star generates another set.

Some ideas for how to use cards to enhance the understanding of indices.

NumberLoving Blog. The 16th in a series of videos where each week I visit my favourite mathematics websites. If one amazing mathematics blog wasn’t enough for you, well how about two! Following on from Colleen Young’s excellent blog (see Video 8) we now have Number Loving. This blog is simply rammed packed full of the latest mathematical news and developments. There are loads of free resources and lots of great ideas that the authors have kindly shared, all for free. It is definitely worth signing up to. Thank you Sharon and Laura!

An Autograph Player activity where students use their knowledge of straight line graphs to sink some co-ordinate battleships. 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 challenge students' abilities to visualise and understand all four transformations. 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 49th in Mr Barton's Autograph Video tutorial series. Following directly on from Video 48, this week we look at how we can use Autograph’s unique 3D engine to demonstrate to students exactly where the formula for the volume of revolution comes from. This provides a nice insight into limits and the fundamental theorem of calculus. Clicking on the web-link you can see all the videos in this series.

Mr Barton's Web Whizz Video 8: This is a video review of a blog website. This is one of my “must visit on a regular basis” websites. It is a blog set up by a very enthusiastic and talented teacher that certainly keeps me up to date on the latest exciting developments in maths teaching and technology. There are gems such as online interactive whiteboards and collections of amazing rich tasks. The 8th in a new series of videos where each week I visit my favourite mathematics websites.

The 11th in a new series of videos where each week I visit my favourite mathematics websites. Google can always be relied upon to come up with the goods, and this little website is no exception. Google have taken all of the 5.2million books that they have access to from the last 200 years, analysed all 500 billion words of them, and made it possible to search for the relative frequency of any of the words within them. So, how does garlic compare to onion over the last couple of centuries? How about radio, television and the internet? Lots of fun with numbers and graphs to be had here.

The 10th in a new series of videos where each week I visit my favourite mathematics websites. Mr Reddy’s Geometry Toolbox is an absolutely essential tool when I am trying to teach students about measuring and constructing. Whether it’s drawing line of 7cm, measuring an angle of 40 degrees, or trying to use a compass, you can guarantee that mistakes will be made. But with the ability to carry out very clear demonstrations thanks to Mr Reddy, you might just get through these lessons with some of your hair left in place. Please share how you use the website below.

This Autograph Video teaches how to cope with integration’s little twists, such as dealing with negative areas, working out the area between a curve and the y-axis, and working out the area between a curve and a line. This will set us up nicely for next week when we enter the world of 3D...Clicking on the web-link you can see all the videos in this series.