Recent Worksheets July 2023
Completion Table Hype Train Been trying to use spare time at work to make some more worksheets and activities – Been on a Completion Table Hype Train recently so that is the bulk of what I am making at the moment – In general just trying to make any worksheet that I need has been…
Asking for a fence
Farmers’ Area Problems I recently came across this fencing problem posed by two mathematically minded farmers, the first part of which I feel is rather well known. Questions such as these are easy to visualise, meaning you can often give an instinctive answer and then test if your intuition was correct after solving the problem.…
ACTually very interesting
The benefits of doing weird maths This is going to be a short post with some niche maths. Upon discovering that a good friend did the ACT exams instead of the GCSEs that I have done and taught I was immediately intrigued to see what the exam would look like. A bit of research led…
Factorising by Grouping SB
The Problem As with most of the Maths that I think about I got pretty obsessed with Factorising by Grouping after doing a question on Brilliant.org. (I will not spend too much time here talking about how much I love Brilliant.org but I absolutely absolutely love Brilliant.org and think that anyone that is interested in…
Funky Alternating Sequences
Firstly try the questions! These series are a lovely in many reasons. Looking quite bonkers at first glance they can both be lovingly rearranged or broken apart to make them more accessible. All the series in this post can be split into two smaller more manageable series – for example in the first question by…
Trigonometry Fun
During this Lockdown period the wonderful youtuber 3blue1brown has created a youtube series called “Lockdown Maths” that have been a glorious set of lectures. These are two worksheets I created that directly use puzzles that are mentioned in this lecture: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QvuQH4_05LI&t=1501s They are beautiful geometric proofs of some often (and less often) used Trigonometric Identities.…

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Sometimes Maths can just be fun! By playing with the Maths it is amazing how much we can learn whilst we do. Try the Maths yourself and see what you learn!
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