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.
Angles of elevation and depression– how to use simple trigonometry to measure the height of tall buildings or objects. A great resource from mymaths.
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
A useful interactive white board tool from www.mymaths.co.uk
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.
Another great game from Transum on metric and imperial units
Can you complete the missing angles in this interactive worksheet from Transum?
To see why angles in a triangle add up to 180 degrees see this demo.
Here is the second (calculator) paper with video answers from Maths made easy.
AQA Functional Maths past papers can be downloaded here. https://www.aqa.org.uk/subjects/mathematics/functional-skills/mathematics-8361-8362/assessment-resources
OCR Functional Skills papers can be downloaded from here. http://www.ocr.org.uk/qualifications/functional-skills-maths-level-1-09865/
Note this is an American video- in the UK the middle of the circle is spelt CENTRE. Do sing along!
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