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Focus - Cumulative Frequency
This topic is all about these two related tools for helping us look at how a data set is spread out. Learn about filling in cumulative frequency tables, plotting the corresponding curves and using the...
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Box plots - teachers notes Free
I wanted to put a separate page for teachers on this activity to stop the outside chance of a student getting a sneak preview of what we might be up to! Sometimes I think it is worth keeping a few things...
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Impossible Triangles Free
Can these triangles exist? The main thrust of this activity is easily explained - What reasoning can you use to decide if these triangles can exist or not? To do the activity you need to assume that all...
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Sine Rule
'Derive the sine rule for yourselves' Take existing bits of knowledge and put them together to make new ones! That is a lovely model for mathematics and this activity gives a perfect opportunity to practise...
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Focus on SOHCAHTOA
This part of trigonometry can be seen in the recurring relationships between the sides of right angles triangles. The relationship means that we can use two bits of information about a triangle to work...
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Re-arranging relations
'Understand all the the things that are true about a given diagram, choose the right one and re-arrange it to suit you!' Once you know about SOHCAHTOA the next challenge is to find out how to apply to...
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Trig Calculator Free
'Make your very own trig ratio calculator!' When you input sin 30 on your calculator you should get 0.5Careful to make sure calculators are set to degrees and not radians.Have you ever wondered what your...
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Tower of Hanoi
'A sentence as an attention grabbing tag lone for the activity, in quotes, centered, size 16 and Navy blue' The Tower of Hanoi game is a great puzzle that everyone can have a go at! How can we move three...
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Exponential!
'Use dynamic constants in graphing software to explore the properties of exponential functions' Exponential functions break the mould by including the variable as a power. This makes them a completely...
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Dancing Quadratics Free
'Call the dancing! Get these quadratics in order and make them dance the way they should!' Watch the videos below and work out what features of the functions involved are changing to make them 'dance'...