Resources for Teaching Mathematics 11-14 [Paperback]

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 neceslãÏ