I have written various posts on resources for Transformations for both GCSE and A Level. Some new resources have been added to the following posts and any links updated where necessary.
A good place to start if this is new to you is the Guided Tutorials, try selecting a plus symbol in this first tutorial.
I do like Graspable Math for enforcing the correct order of operations.
This interface is excellent – steps are recorded as you can see here. Note the video demonstrations also.
Several categories of skills are available, under Enhance your skills, you will find Linear equations, Order of Operations, Algebraic Expressions, and Polynomials. More skills will be added in the next couple of months.
Maths Genie with all its questions and worked solutions by topic is such a brilliant site for students and teachers; have you looked at the other resources available including the very useful Foundation and Higher Mini Tests? These are 20 GCSE tests of 20 questions (2 sides of A4), with answers supplied; tests are available for Foundation, Grade 5 (Foundation), Grades 4-6 (Higher), and Grades 7-9 (Higher).
Jake Gordon – Skills grid creator
If you want to customise starters to test certain topics there are several options available – see Custom Maths Revision Starters.
On Maths White Board, Matt Woodfine has created a very useful resource, he has analysed topics that have appeared in recent GCSE papers (June 22 – Nov 23) for AQA, Edexcel and OCR Foundation and Higher and created question sets for these topics.
The example here shows AQA Higher, Paper 1; looking at Venn Diagrams for example, we can generate a whiteboard (and as it is possible to refresh questions we have an endless supply) or a worksheet with answers.
Maths White Board – Venn Diagrams
On January 31st we have the Intermediate Maths Challenge, the challenge questions really get your students thinking and are excellent to use at any time – practice with past paper questions. I do like the way UKMT have provided further investigations for the questions.
On Challenge Prompts you can find prompts and video solutions for the IMC Papers from 2015 – 2017.
MEI – Exploring Data with Technology
From MEI, have a look at their recently published Exploring Data with Technology collection of activities aimed at mathematics students in Key Stage 3 or 4 (UK ages 11-16). The aim of the activities is to give students an experience of exploring real data sets using a statistics program. All the activities use the free educational software for data analysis tool, CODAP (Common Online Data Analysis Platform). Download the activities for all the resources needed – a presentation, teacher notes, and CODAP files for the data.
Trying CODAP for the first time, I selected CODAP, then try CODAP, create new document. Choosing import from the main menu allows you to import a CODAP data file. Once you have imported the data, you can drag data from the table to the graph.
Trying CODAP for the first time, I selected CODAP, then try CODAP, create new document. Choosing import from the main menu allows you to import a CODAP data file. Once you have imported the data, you can drag data from the table to the graph to assign horizontal and vertical axes.
This is certainly a resource I will be exploring further. There are many examples available to explore CODAP. Number of Factors looks interesting.
I have been interested in Astronomy since coming across a book on Constellations in my local Junior library some decades ago – so I’ll finish with these 60 Second Adventures In Astronomy from The Open University.
Open University – 60 second Adventures in Astronomy
