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Calculator hacks

MathedUp — Sat, 11 Apr 2015 14:06:41 +0000

I recently came across this blog post by @RGS_maths where they shared some calculator tips. Many of these I had come across before but the one that stood out for me and got me all excited was number 5: Verify your algebra. To be honest, the only time I had ever come across the “VERIF” mode was […]

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The burden of proof

MathedUp — Wed, 08 Apr 2015 15:47:44 +0000

On the back of an earlier post on Transforming Functions, I thought I might share some other A/A* lessons I have taught recently. Please note, what has worked well for me and my students, may not work well for you and your students. The idea of the post is to give people a starting point […]

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Transforming graphs

MathedUp — Sat, 04 Apr 2015 12:15:16 +0000

Now, don’t get me wrong, I live in the real world and I completely get that sometimes we just need a way of remembering how to do stuff. But over the past however many years, when I have picked up a year 12 AS maths class, the thing that has annoyed me the most is […]

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Exploring relationships

MathedUp — Thu, 08 May 2014 23:10:49 +0000

Having just finished some work with my year 10s on forming and solving equations (see this great resource they made), we have turned our attention to looking at rearranging formulae. As an introduction to this, I have used an idea that I first explored when doing my PGCE all those years ago. The idea is to take a simple […]

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