Advert: Consider the following that I took from a student’s book. Is this something you have seen before? What do you think the student’s reasoning is? What’s the Problem? In my experience, if there isContinue reading
Author: Craig Barton
Article – A Level Maths
Advert: It’s that time of year again. Very soon, those of us who teach A Level will be faced with a class-full of Year 12 students, fresh from six weeks of lie-ins, trips abroad andContinue reading
Article – Homework in Maths
Advert: I’ll be honest – I hate marking. It is by far the least enjoyable part of my job. Give me a lesson on compound measures to prepare, a classroom to tidy, or even anContinue reading
Article – Flipping the Classroom
Advert: Trends and concepts come and go in all walks of life, but they are rarely more prevalent or transient than in the world of education. One such example that has gained a lot ofContinue reading
Article – Maths Blogs
Advert: Is there a way of introducing algebra that will not make my students groan? How can I bring some fun into the properties of quadrilaterals? How do I help students understand that two minusesContinue reading
Article – 3 Act Math
Advert: Here is an exam question from a recent Mechanics module paper: “A particle is moving in a straight line from O to P with a constant acceleration of 4ms-2. Its velocity at P is 48ms-1Continue reading
Article – Dotty Thinking (the video!)
This is a video to accompany my article for the TES Magazine (“Dotty Thinking”) that offers up a simple, fun idea to get students engaged and making meaningful data comparisons, including mean, median, mode, rangeContinue reading
Article – Dotty Thinking
Advert: Below you will find a certain number of dots. Have a very quick look at the dots above, then scroll down the page until you can’t see them any more Keep scrolling!!! KeepContinue reading
Autograph Video 71 – Find the Line
Here is a quick idea for an activity that should help your learners practise identifying the equation of a line from the points that lie on it. A line is constructed, and a point attachedContinue reading
Autograph Video 70 – Trig and Pythag – Part 3
All good things must come to an end, and the same is also true for our Autograph Trigonometric Trilogy! In this final video we go out with a bang by taking a look at howContinue reading
Autograph Video 69 – Trig and Pythag – Part 2
The second of the Trigonometric Trilogy! Following on from last week’s work, we take a look at how we can use Autograph to help students practise finding the sizes of missing angles in right-angled trianglesContinue reading
Autograph Video 68 – Trig and Pythag – Part 1
The first of the Trigonometric Trilogy! In this week’s video we take a look at a clever way of using Autograph to practice working out the length of missing sides using Trigonometry (sin, cos andContinue reading
Autograph Video 67 – Pizza Puzzle
The final part of the Autograph Puzzle Trilogy! This week we take a look at the “Pizza Problem” — what is the maximum number of pieces you can cut a pizza up into making straightContinue reading
Autograph Video 66 – Quadrilateral Puzzle
The second of the Autograph Puzzle Trilogy! Here we look at another a lovely pencil and paper puzzle inspired by Don Steward’s amazing Median Maths Blog. Students are given four co-ordinates and asked to considerContinue reading
Autograph Video 65 – Leap Frog Puzzle
The first of the Autograph Puzzle Trilogy! Here we look at a lovely pencil and paper puzzle inspired by Don Steward’s amazing Median Maths Blog. Place any 3 points on a page and start leap-froggingContinue reading
Autograph Video 64 – Matrix Transformations
Should you find yourself needing to teach the transformation of matrices, it would be nice to have some dynamic geometry package to help you along the way through this very visual topic. This is whereContinue reading
Autograph Video 63 – Line Symmetry in Quadrilaterals
This is the much-anticipated(!) sequel to last week’s Line Symmetry in Rectangles. Here we look at how we might create an Autograph page to look at line symmetry more generally by allowing us to alterContinue reading
Autograph Video 62 – Line Symmetry in Rectangles
A common misconception amongst students (and myself, actually!) is that a rectangle has 4 lines of symmetry. In this video we look at how we can use Autograph to illustrate this concept in a simple,Continue reading
Autograph Video 61 – Circle Through 3 Points
I was surprised that one of my Year 13 students wasn’t aware of the lovely fact that you can draw a circle through any 3 points, so long as those 3 points do not lieContinue reading
Autograph Video 60 – Battleships
In this video we take a look at an activity I like to use with my classes called Co-ordinate Battleships. I use this either to revise the equations of straight line graphs or even toContinue reading