Author Archives: Richard

The benefits of iteration

It might seem like I’ve been a bit quiet on the resource front. Except in the last month or so, I’ve published the following on TES. Missing Terms In Arithmetic Sequences The Range FDP Perpendicular Lines (equations of) Parallel Lines (Equations of) Areas of circles Areas of sectors That’s a lot of stuff. Most of… Read More »

Function Machines

Download the PowerPoint here Nothing fancy here. Just some example problem pairs, some questions and a plenary. Plus some exam questions. The biggest change is that I added the date into my header. It’s innovative stuff.

Writing Expressions

Download the PowerPoint here I think one of the reasons students struggle so much when facing this topic is the amount of ways we can phrase things. x multiplied by y. x times y. x lots of y. x items costing y each. I’ve tried to collect some of these here, but I’m sure there… Read More »

A gallery of bad graphs

I collect bad graphs. I used to keep them as a PowerPoint, but I thought I’d bring them together here as a slideshow. I did promise to do this a month ago. Sorry to @VVMinkov on Twitter. Usually I present the graphs. Ask students to think for themselves for 30 seconds. Then talk to their… Read More »

Pictograms

Find the resource here. (As a side note, I’d really like to not use TES to host these resources at some point, but haven’t really found a better option). This is pretty simple stuff. But look at this example problem pair. It’s sideways! I think these are best printed off (2 per page) and stuck… Read More »

Coordinates Resources

Download these resources here. There’s actually a lot more to coordinates than is perhaps given space for in a lot of schemes of work. I certainly have been guilty of skipping over the topic before, on the basis that the kids can ‘do it’ and have made trouble for myself later on down the line.… Read More »

Frequency Tables

I’ve been avoiding putting this one up for a while, because I couldn’t think of any decent questions and this lesson is a bit all over the place. But it might be useful for someone. I swing between it not covering enough and it covering too much. It starts with a variation theory thing on… Read More »