Gradients and lines

Appearing Square from nrich; a video to go with it (via 10-Minute Math).

Maths Enrichment

• Maths and Islamic Art and Design (V&A Museum)
• National Cipher Challenge (Southampton University)
• Geometric Patterns.pdf (Teacher Resources Online)
• Nrich; Motivate (Cambridge University Millennium Maths Project)
• Jill Britton - lots of links and ideas for symmetry, tessellations, geometry and polyhedra
• Assorted resources from Kangaroo Maths

Games, puzzles and problems.

Enrichment: games and puzzles from Kangaroo Maths - some excellent lateral thinking and maths problems.

100 Games To Play Online

Classroom blogging

http://coe.sdsu.edu/eet/articles/bloggingtech/index.htm

A really good article talking about the different issues and possibilities.

Using Geometer's Sketchpad

1. Specific tasks

The tools; constructing a basic figure; animating points, segments and shapes; constructing an equilateral triangle, parallel and perpendicular lines through a given point, perpendicular bisectors, midpoints

The three centres of a triangle; Euclid's line

2. Useful resources

Getting started with... (ATM) - booklet in folder
GSP learning guide/reference manual/teaching notes - in folder
The Geometer's Sketchpad Resource Centre - General Resources
Some exercises for students
Lots of resources and links
Instructions for using polar coordinates
Nate Burchell's GSP files

3. To learn next

Adding measurements; angle bisector; drawing arcs

4. And then...

Fractals, tiling, graphs...

Maths At Work

A series of videos showing how maths is used in the workplace (from NCETM):
http://www.ncetm.org.uk/Default.aspx?page=13&module=res&mode=100&resid=11329

Rich mathematical tasks for KS3

Tasks and resources from the East Midlands Maths Network:
http://emmaths.jfcs.org.uk/

Guidance and ideas for incorporating rich tasks into your curriculum:
http://nrich.maths.org/public/viewer.php?obj_id=6089&part=index