The 59th in Mr Barton's Autograph Video tutorial series. Another incredibly useful feature of Autograph is the ability to import images onto the graph page. In this video we take a look at how easy it is to import images into Autograph, and then take a look at some potential lesson applications, including working out the equation of lines on the London Underground and helping out the Human Cannonball!. Clicking on the web-link you can see all the videos in this series.

The 56th in Mr Barton's Autograph Video tutorial series. The Transformation of Functions Trilogy comes to a close with this final video all about how you can use Autograph to play “Follow the Point”. Being able to predict the co-ordinate of a point following a transformation is increasingly becoming a popular exam style question, and is a really useful skill for the students to develop, and it can be examined thoroughly using Autograph’s dynamic features. Clicking on the web-link you can see all the videos in this series.

The 21st in a series of videos where each week I visit my favourite mathematics websites. My number one source for keeping up to date with all the latest developments in maths resources and ideas are blogs. A load of them have sprung up over the last twelve months, and their quality is absolutely unbelievable. In this video we take a quick look at some of my favourites, including posts about flipped classrooms, thoughts and crosses, teaching crushes, World Maths Day and so much more. And can I personally say thank you to all the kind, talented, dedicated and generous people who run them.

The 22nd in a series of videos where each week I visit my favourite mathematics websites. Two issues that I regularly face in my teaching are: 1) trying to think of relevant, engaging activities to hook the students in and 2) making effective use of any computer room lessons I am lucky enough to secure. The Get the Math website might just solve both of these problems. It contains three detailed, rich, engaging, interactive activities about how mathematics is used in the real world. The one we look at in details concerns two hip-hop artists whose drum-beat and sample are not in time.

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 to illustrate The Angle at the Centre 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.

Tired of my annoying voice on these videos every week?... well, I’m pleased to say that this time I am handing over to my special guest, Douglas Butler, the creator of Autograph. Here Douglas shows you an interesting and engaging way of using Google Earth and Autograph to investigate gradients in real life. We start with a runway and end up taking a bike ride around Bolton. Lovely stuff, Mr Butler. I must get some music in my videos…

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.

The 15th in a series of videos where each week I visit my favourite mathematics websites. Anyone who knows me or has watched my videos will know I am slightly obsessed with Statistics. My teaching of statistics has been revolutionised by Gapminder World and Guardian Data Blog, and now here comes another absolutely fantastic statistical website. With Nationmaster you can very quickly and clearly make comparisons between countries using thousands of interesting, up to date statistics.

Data and Statistics are still burdened with the unfortunate reputation of being rather dull topics in maths. This I highly unfair, and there are few more important and relevant mathematical topics to the lives of students and the word around them. Previously we have looked at websites which can help bring statistics to life, and My Life in Numbers deserves to sit alongside those. Just wait until you see your students’ reaction to the number of heartbeats Justin Bieber has had, and how David Beckham’s earnings tick by quicker than the passing seconds.

The 17th in a series of videos where each week I visit my favourite mathematics websites. iTunes U is a feature of Apple’s iTunes service where universities and education providers from all over the world have uploaded complete courses, with videos, notes, homeworks, on a whole variety of subjects, all completely free. Mathematics is really well represented. Here we take a look at a Statistics course from Harvard, and then at an excellent series of puzzles from Cambridge called Quite Easily Done (QED). This is a fantastic resource with potential to help both teachers and students.

An Autograph Player activity to illustrate the Alternate 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.

The 53rd in Mr Barton's Autograph Video tutorial series. Following on from our work on worksheets last week, this time we take a look at how Autograph can be used to very quickly create an incredibly flexible number line. This can then be used in class to help with the teaching of topics including place value, scales, sequences and negative numbers. Clicking on the web-link you can see all the videos in this series.

The 17th in a series of videos where each week I visit my favourite mathematics websites. This week it is the turn of the Murderous Maths Website, which is the online home of the excellent Murderous Maths series of books. Just like the books, this site is absolutely crammed packed full of fascinating maths tricks, features and activities. I pick out a couple of my favourites, and also suggest a way that this website could be used for an interesting maths project with your pupils.

An Autograph Player activity to investigate the transformation of functions in the form f(x + c) + d. 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 24th in a series of videos where each week I visit my favourite mathematics websites. Numberphile is an amazing collection of quirky, interesting and inspirational mathematical videos. The topics covered are wide ranging to say the least, from the wonders of 1729, to birthdays, Googolplex and e. Here we take a look at a few of the videos and then talk about possible uses of the videos in the classroom, both to end a lesson in style or as the basis of a rich, practical project for students.

The 58th in Mr Barton's Autograph Video tutorial series. A feature of Autograph that many people are unaware of (or close down as quickly as possible!) is the Autograph Keyboard. In this video we take a look at some of the useful things that the Autograph keyboard can do, both in the program itself and in other applications. You emails may never be the same again! Clicking on the web-link you can see all the videos in this series.

The 23rd in a series of videos where each week I visit my favourite mathematics websites. Magic is one of the few things that fascinates all students, regardless of age and ability. Mathematics (of course) is the most important subject in the world. Therefore, if you can bring these two great subjects together, wonderful things will ensue. This free manual of mathematical magic is packed to the brim with amazing magical tricks, all of which have a fundamental mathematical basis. In this video we look at some of the tricks, and think more widely about how they might be used in the classroom.

An Autograph Player activity to investigate the transformation of functions in the form f(bx). 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 investigate the transformation of functions in the form af(bx + c) + d. 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.