Resources for Teaching Mathematics : 11-14.

Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 1 Amazing Ways: Counting the numbers of routes through a word maze -- 2 Dividing Cakes: Partitioning fractions in different ways -- 3 Draw a Picture: Drawing pictures using mathematical graphs -- 4 Ever-Increasing Circles: Approximating the area of a circle by counting dots -- 5 Factor Trees: Exploring patterns in prime factor trees -- 6 Fiddling Averages: Investigating how averages can be manipulated -- 7 Folding: Finding connections relating to flat folds -- 8 Four Numbers: Generating and solving linear equations -- 9 Four Weights: Making as many values as possible from four numbers -- 10 Four-Star Hotels: Deducing the contents of a grid from the sums of columns and rows -- 11 Fuel: Maximizing the amount of fuel that can be transferred across a desert -- 12 Have a Megaday!: Converting time units and using standard prefixes -- 13 How Far?: Devising a statistical experiment -- 14 Infinity: Exploring a converging sequence -- 15 Investigating Mirrors: Finding out what happens when you reflect more than once -- 16 Journey Through a Word: Using bearings and distance to describe a route -- 17 Ladders: Solving simultaneous equations and drawing straight-line graphs -- 18 Make Twenty-Four: Using priority of operations to construct calculations -- 19 Meeting Up: Finding out how straight lines relate to their equations -- 20 Mystery Messages: Using frequency analysis to crack a substitution code -- 21 Newspaper Pages: Investigating the pagination of newspapers and books -- 22 One Cut: Categorizing the outcomes from one fold and one cut of a square -- 23 Palindromic Numbers: Solving problems relating to palindromic numbers -- 24 Percentage Puzzles: Practising mental percentage calculations -- 25 Pizza Slices: Finding the areas and perimeters of circular sectors.

26 Rectilinear Shapes: Exploring angles and line segments in rectilinear shapes -- 27 Regular Polygons: Understanding necessary and sufficient conditions in geometry -- 28 Seven Divided by Three: Partitioning integers and finding patterns -- 29 Shape Riddles: Understanding inclusive definitions -- 30 Shapes within Shapes: Relating numerical sequences to geometrical properties -- 31 Sharing Camels: Using fractions to solve a remainder problem -- 32 Simultaneous Investigation: Finding simultaneous equations with integer solutions -- 33 Sinusoids: Examining the sine and cosine graphs -- 34 Squares and Remainders: Exploring the divisibility properties of square numbers -- 35 Squares and Roots: Finding out how square numbers and surds behave -- 36 Star Polygons: Calculating angles in star polygons and drawing them -- 37 Street Race: Using travel graphs to solve problems -- 38 Symmetrical Possibilities: Finding examples of shapes with specified symmetries -- 39 Take a Breath: Estimating and calculating using large numbers -- 40 The Playground Problem: Solving a practical minimization problem -- 41 The Tailor's Rule of Thumb: Testing statistical hypotheses relating to body proportions -- 42 The Totient Function: Investigating patterns in reducible fractions -- 43 Three Consecutive Numbers: Using algebra to prove relationships -- 44 Transforming Graphs: Carrying out transformations on straight-line graphs -- 45 Transport Problems: Solving complicated problems in the best possible way -- 46 Trapped Squares: Exploring patterns relating to straight-line graphs -- 47 Travel Arrangements: Making and interpreting travel graphs -- 48 Triangle Angles: Using simple trigonometry to solve not-so-simple triangles -- 49 Vanishing Lines: Explaining an optical illusion using gradient -- 50 Water: Calculating volumes and lengths and finding connections -- Other Resources.

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This resource contains 50 ready-to-use mathematics lesson plans suitable for the whole department to use with learners aged 11-14. Each plan consists of a teacher's sheet which breaks down the lesson into time-allocated sections from starter through to homework, together with a photocopiable (or downloadable) student task sheet to give out. There is also a companion website with extra material to support the lesson plans in the book, giving teachers the time and confidence to try new activities in the classroom with minimal preparation. The lesson tasks are open-ended and encourage deep mathematical thinking, allowing learners to explore different topics creatively through solving problems in their own way. This is an essential resource for any busy teacher of mathematics.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.