Content – Page 11 – Maths with Graham

Can you work out the missing numbers in this Football League table? You will need to use logic, arithmetic and negative numbers.
Premier League table 2011-12
League Division 1 table 2011-12

Download and print out the dominoes. Cut them out, then play like dominoes or simply match the questions and answers.
Finding the Mode Dominoes

Remember the mode is the most frequent data item.

Thanks to Mr Barton for the original jigsaw.

If you can’t agree you can .download the solution here.

This is the first in a series of Functional Skills resources about climate change and what the Government could do about it.

A million Climate Jobs

When I was a newly qualified teacher in the early 1980’s the latest trend in maths teaching was Logo. We used to get the students programming the BBC computers to make amazing patterns and shapes. We even used to have a little turtle robot that you could program to draw shapes on the floor! You can have a go at Logo here thanks to Transum.

Here is a great website to learn how to make paper planes.

Why not organise a competition to see which type of plane flies the furthest? Collect data on the flight distances and work out the average distance flown. Does it make any difference if you use mean, median or mode? Work out the range in flight distances. What does this tell you? Which sort of plane is the best?

Download this pdf, print and cut out the triangles. Try to arrange all the triangles so that the questions match with the answers. If you get it right you should make a new shape.

Download Probability Events Jigsaw

If you need a reminder of how to work out probabilities, try this link.
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Thanks to Mr Barton for the original jigsaw.

If you are really stuck the solution is here.

Angles of elevation and depression– how to use simple trigonometry to measure the height of tall buildings or objects. A great resource from mymaths.

An excellent introduction to upper and lower bounds from mymaths

A good introduction to formulae from mymaths.

Download, print and cut out the 4 squares and 8 triangles, and fit them together correctly to find a message!

Click here for solution

Find out about clockwise and anticlockwise turning, right angles and points of the compass in this interactive white board tool from www.mymaths.co.uk

This is a useful introduction to scatter graphs from www.mymaths.co.uk

A useful interactive white board tool from www.mymaths.co.uk

Here is a useful interactive white board tool on addition from www.mymaths.co.uk

http://www.mymaths.co.uk/samples/sampleLessonAdding2digitNumbers.swf

This great free software enables you to create your own mathematical jigsaws or dominoes. You choose the shape (hexagon, rhombus, parallelogram, rectangle or even a parquet). You print off on card and laminate or just print on paper and cut up.

Just like Blue Peter here are some I made earlier.

Decimals Calculations Level 1

Calculations This is ideal for ESOL students revising words for the 4 rules.

To download the free software so you can make your own go to Hermitech Laboratory and download Formulator Tarsia.

I guess there are numeracy teachers all over the country with libraries of these jigsaws! If you would like to share yours with everybody please send me your masterpieces and I will endeavour to publish them here. Mr Barton Maths.com has an amazing collection of 550 jigsaws on his website here.

This exercise is to help ESOL students with their mathematical vocabulary. When you have checked your answers refresh your page and you will get a new exercise.