There are some impressively steep roads in San Francisco but New Zealand boasts the 'world's steepest road' according to the Guiness Book of Records - Baldwin Street in Dunedin has a gradient of 35%. Normal Distribution: short contextual exercises Should We Send Out a Certificate? and Do You Fit In This Car?.Describing Data Sets with Outliers and Identifying Outliers are about outliers and skewness in data (see my related post on teaching skewness). Data: These activities on Haircut Costs and Speed Trap focus on comparing box plots.I also like this short Titanic activity on independence. Probability: the card activity Describing Events is an excellent introduction to probability and the activity Venn Diagrams and the Addition Rule is good too.Discrete Random Variables: a short activity Sounds Really Good! (sort of) which features a real-life use of expectation.Includes calculating a correlation coefficient, interpreting a regression equation and considering causality and outliers. Correlation and Regression: a lovely activity on coffee shops and crime.Illustrative Mathematics has some fantastic ideas for teaching S1. I've focused on A level because that's where I think it's hardest to find interesting teaching ideas. I haven't had a chance to look at all these websites yet, but here's some of my top resource recommendations from the websites I've looked at so far. Ooh, new websites! Heaven for a resourceaholic. William Emeny recently posted a link to 'Mathematics 101: Leading Sites for Math Teachers' on his blog. So it's helpful when someone does the searching, filtering and classifying for us. And they're right - there's so many resources to choose from, no-one has the time to look at them all. It became a bit of an obsession! Unfortunately my colleagues found it all rather overwhelming. ![]() I started spending a lot of time looking for resources online and sharing these resources with colleagues. I work in a grammar school where pupils respond quite well to didactic teaching styles and textbooks exercises - arguably there's nothing wrong with this approach, but the lovely Trigonometry Pile Up worksheet reminded me that the internet is full of engaging resources and exciting teaching ideas. ![]() It all started when I saw a PGCE student photocopying this Trigonometry Pile Up activity from. Yes, I confess, I'm utterly addicted to searching the internet for maths teaching resources.
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