A colourful and engaging PowerPoint to get students thinking about why maths is so important for them personally. Reasons range from classics (more money) to less conventional and more fundamental reasons, including:
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π² Increased earnings.
π² Understanding just about everything in the world better.
π² Improving your ability to succeed in ANY field, with sport given as an example.
π² Logic, strategy & problem-solving: basically maths makes you smarter!
π² Not letting yourself be fooled by the media and advertising.
π² Stopping human society from collapsing!
π² Understanding the universe and our place within it!
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Dinosaurs, planetary orbits, megagons and space diagonals, this trigonometry resource pack has it all! Not to mention a few trigonometry tests with some plain old triangles thrown in for good measure, solutions included. Some resources for practising basic trigonometry with gradually increasing difficulty, and some exceptionally challenging questions that will make even the smartest maths teachers have to think too! Some resources for outdoor trigonometry may have to be adapted for your school grounds.
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8 engaging and fascinating posters about real-life circles and spheres. When designing these posters I thought of the stereotypical maths poster (full of words, numbers & boring diagrams) and made the exact opposite. Students actually look at and ask questions about these posters! High quality images for printing as large wall displays (7200 x 6000 px JPEG format). Contact me for the original PSD/TIF files.
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β Compound Probability Lesson - Students investigate the probabilities involved in tossing coins and use their new knowledge to compete a worksheet (basic, challenge & enlarged version included).
β Coin Challenge - A gambling-based PowerPoint demonstrating how misleading probability mathematics can be.
β Alien Abduction PowerPoint - An engaging PowerPoint involving global demographics and the fascinating non-transitive dice.
β Probability Card Set - Some cards for students to place on a probability line, including blanks to make up their own.
β Basic Probability Tarsia - A tarsia based on a set of ten coloured cards, for developing a basic understanding of probability.
β Probability Worksheet - An engaging worksheet on basic probability.
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Carefully-designed to develop a deep understanding of substitution without having to pre-teach any fixed methods. For the best result print in colour on two sheets of A4 and laminate them together back to back. The reverse side can then be filled in with a board marker which the students really enjoy. Colourful, engaging and encourages critical thinking. One of my favourite resources.
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An interactive offline website with 27 sets of 3-differentiated-question problem-solving starters. There is an in-built reward system where achievements are unlocked for entering the correct solution to each question. "Green" questions are designed to be accessible to all ability groups, but still require some resilience and problem-solving techniques. Yellow questions provide greater challenge and red questions can be exceptionally challenging. Unzip everything into a folder and run BrainBoost.html. Optimised for Google Chrome. Please contact me with any technical queries.
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A quick-fire browser-based mental maths game where the answer is always 7, 8 or 9. You have 78.9 seconds to answer as many questions as possible, make sure you use your keyboard keys 7, 8 & 9 for maximum speed. A highly addictive game with an in-built leaderboard. Great on an interactive whiteboard in the classroom or for all students in the computer room. Should be compatible with all browsers except Firefox. Playable on tablets and phones although the leaderboard only functions on PCs. Please contact me with any technical queries.
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A highly-challenging space-themed worksheet requiring C1 coordinate geometry and C2 differentiation. GeoGebra files that were used to create the questions are also included for teacher reference.
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A challenging integration worksheet designed to be printed as a colourful laminate. The GeoGebra file used to create this resource is also included.
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A worksheet based on the TakTile concept: using shapes to represent algebraic variables. This really makes students think about algebra in a different way and can help visual/kinaesthetic learners get their heads around algebra. A resource/concept that can be extended indefinitely. Designed to be printed as a two-sided colourful A4 laminate and includes large versions of the shapes to be printed on card or laminated for kinaesthetic representation and manipulation.
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I will design a colourful and engaging interactive Geogebra file that develops a deeper conceptual understanding of your chosen topic. I will aim to create this within one week of your payment.
Please email me with details as soon as you have made the payment:
mail [AT] mutantmaths [DOT] com
For the GeoGebra files shown in the attached images, please see my other resources.