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Resources for Teaching Mathematics: 11-14

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Table of Contents

Introduction
1. Amazing Ways: Counting the numbers of routes through a word maze
2. Dividing Cakes: Partitioning fractions in different ways
3. Draw a Picture: Drawing pictures using mathematical graphs
4. Ever-Increasing Circles: Approximating the area of a circle by counting dots
5. Factor Trees: Exploring patterns in prime factor trees
6. Fiddling Averages: Investigating how averages can be manipulated
7. Folding: Finding connections relating to flat folds
8. Four Numbers: Generating and solving linear equations
9. Four Weights: Making as many values as possible from four numbers
10. Four-Star Hotels: Deducing the contents of a grid from the sums of columns and rows
11. Fuel: Maximizing the amount of fuel that can be transferred across a desert
12. Have a Megaday!: Converting time units and using standard prefixes
13. How Far?: Devising a statistical experiment
14. Infinity: Exploring a converging sequence
15. Investigating Mirrors: Finding out what happens when you reflect more than once
16. Journey Through a Word: Using bearings and distance to describe a route
17. Ladders: Solving simultaneous equations and drawing straight-line graphs
18. Make Twenty-Four: Using priority of operations to construct calculations
19. Meeting Up: Finding out how straight lines relate to their equations
20. Mystery Messages: Using frequency analysis to crack a substitution code
21. Newspaper Pages: Investigating the pagination of newspapers and books
22. One Cut: Categorizing the outcomes from one fold and one cut of a square
23. Palindromic Numbers: Solving problems relating to palindromic numbers
24. Percentage Puzzles: Practising mental percentage calculations
25. Pizza Slices: Finding the areas and perimeters of circular sectors
26. Rectilinear Shapes: Exploring angles and line segments in rectilinear shapes
27. Regular Polygons: Understanding necessary and sufficient conditions in geometry
28. Seven Divided by Three: Partitioning integers and finding patterns
29. Shape Riddles: Understanding inclusive definitions
30. Shapes Within Shapes: Relating numerical sequences to geometrical properties
31. Sharing Camels: Using fractions to solve a remainder problem
32. Simultaneous Investigation: Finding simultaneous equations with integer solutions
33. Sinusoids: Examining the sine and cosine graphs
34. Squares and Remainders: Exploring the divisibility properties of square numbers
35. Squares and Roots: Finding out how square numbers and surds behave
36. Star Polygons: Calculating angles in star polygons and drawing them
37. Street Race: Using travel graphs to solve problems
38. Symmetrical Possibilities: Finding examples of shapes with specified symmetries
39. Take a Breath: Estimating and calculating using large numbers
40. The Playground Problem: Solving a practical minimization problem
41. The Tailor's Rule of Thumb: Testing statistical hypotheses relating to body proportions
42. The Totient Function: Investigating patterns in reducible fractions
43. Three Consecutive Numbers: Using algebra to prove relationships
44. Transforming Graphs: Carrying out transformations on straight-line graphs
45. Transport Problems: Solving complicated problems in the best possible way
46. Trapped Squares: Exploring patterns relating to straight-line graphs
47. Travel Arrangements: Making and interpreting travel graphs
48. Triangle Angles: Using simple trigonometry to solve not-so-simple triangles
49. Vanishing Lines: Explaining an optical illusion using gradient
50. Water: Calculating volumes and lengths and finding connections
Other Resources
Index

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Published Nov 24 2011
Format Paperback
Edition 1st
Pages 224
ISBN 9781441142276
Imprint Continuum
Dimensions 297 x 210 mm
Series Resources for Teaching
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing

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