Resourceaholic: 5 Maths Gems #178

March 9, 2024

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Welcome to my 178^th gems put up. That is the place I share a few of the newest information, concepts and sources for maths academics.1. Inverse Proportion
I actually like this tweet from @catrionateaches. When educating inverse proportion I all the time speak about fixed merchandise however then I head straight into the system y = okay/x. Catriona suggests a delicate change in methodology.

2. Graph Transformations

MathsPad has printed one other sensible interactive instrument for the Larger GCSE matter graph transformations. It reveals how factors on the unique curves map on to these on the remodeled curves. There’s a separate part for quadratic graphs, which is especially helpful for relating accomplished sq. kind to graph transformations.

There may be additionally a piece for trigonometric graphs, the place transformations of the graphs of y=sin(x) and y=cos(x) could be explored.

It is nice to see a brand new useful resource printed for educating graph transformations – I all the time discover that that is the GCSE matter for which it is trickiest to seek out appropriate sources, as a result of many duties nonetheless embrace stretches (these had been faraway from the syllabus again in 2017 – GCSE now simply covers reflections and translations).

Do take a look at MathsPad’s full vary of interactive instruments – a few of them are free to make use of even if you happen to do not subscribe (you actually ought to subscribe to MathsPad although!).

3. GeoGebra

It is price following @geogebra to see concepts for interactive GeoGebra maths sources that can be utilized for demonstrations in classes or scholar actions. Listed here are a number of latest examples:

📦🐭 GEOGEBRA RESOURCE! 🥡🐱

Do that FREE GeoGebra Apply useful resource to attract box-and-whisker plots from a set of information. Test it out! https://t.co/VsqOGblJ2P #MTBoS #iteachmath #math #statistics pic.twitter.com/GAz9gbyLAR

— GeoGebra (@geogebra) February 27, 2024

5. Prime Components

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