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When using this trick students do not realize that rounding means choosing the closest number at the next place value. This is particularly troublesome when there is a carryover...
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A great deal has been mentioned in recent years about ‘cognitive load’ and reducing this for students studying mathematics. Tina Cardone’s book ‘Nix the Tricks’ has some interesting...
Equilateral triangles have interior angles of 60o, squares 90o and pentagons 108o. The first regular n-sided polygon that doesn't have a whole number as an interior angle is the heptagon.
When exploring interior angles with my students we'd usually deduce a rule and use it to find interior angles of up to 9, 10 or even 12 sided shapes (with an...
The problem with using an acronym for order of operations comes where operations have equal priority and should be read from left to right. For example, a student using BIDMAS might incorrectly evaluate 10 - 3 + 4 as follows:
Incorrect: 10 - 3 + 4 = 10 - 7 = 3
Correct: 10 - 3 + 4 = 7 + 4 = 11
Tina Cardone’s book ‘Nix the Tricks’ has some...
How would you answer this question? More importantly, how would your students?
Brute force seems like a good option. Instead of listing the factors randomly, I’d hope students would work systematically, looking for factor pairs starting with 1 and 300 and then work their way...
The Further Maths Support Programme offer a number of different events. Not all of which are aimed at teachers and not all are for directly aimed at those taking further maths.
In York, on the 6th July, "Taking Maths Further!" is a mathematics enrichment event for year 10 students. The conference will aim to inspire students to continue to study mathematics at a higher level by...
The full statement of Pythagoras’ Theorem is that
‘If a triangle is right-angled, then the sum of the squares of the legs is equal to the square of the hypotenuse’.
The full theorem is certainly quite a mouthful, and often gets distilled...
When reviewing the most popular resource collections downloaded in 2017 it came as no surprise that the SMILE collection came ‘top of the pops’ once again. Thousands of great ideas all in one place.
One of my many favourites is...
This post on fractional indices is the second in a series featuring ideas from Tina Cardone’s book ‘Nix the Tricks’.
A recent class had difficulty in moving from integer to fractional indices. I used some of the ideas from ‘Nix the Tricks’ and...