Topmarks Search Skoool.co.uk A fantastic free resource to support maths and science at Key Stages 3 and 4. There are wonderful interactive activities and study notes. Calculation Balance An excellent site for addition, subtraction, multiplication and division practice. Christmas Maths A useful resource for Christmas time which includes a range of great number activities which are aimed at Year 1 pupils (5 - 6 years). Ladybird Spots Three different counting, matching and ordering maths games based on the numbers 1 to 10 for early years children. Multiplication Try this good game for practising your times tables. Loop Cards Fantastic for improving your mental maths. Teddy Numbers The Teddy Numbers game can help you to learn numbers to 15. Underwater Counting Can you find the treasure? Primary Worksheets A selection of good quality maths worksheets. S-Cool! An excellent revision site which covers the main principles on most syllabuses.
Elapsed Time Calculator at Math Cats How to use the Elapsed Time Calculator: Set each date to a time in the past or the future, or NOW. (Click on NOW and change to "Choose a date" if you want to set both dates.) Click and type or use the arrows to change the year. Use the drop-down menus or arrows to change months, days, hours, minutes, or seconds. Ideas ~ Looking into the Future: What is the countdown from now to the last day of school? The Math Cats Elapsed Time Calculator will not accept dates earlier than 1582.
Horus Eye Fractions The ancient Egyptian system of measures provides another example of number signs conceived as a coherent system. In the so- called “Horus-eye fractions”1, the designer of a numerical sequence linked its members also into a unified whole derived from a myth, just as in the series of numerals for the powers of ten. Gay Robins and Charles Shute describe this series of measures in their book on “The Rhind Mathematical Papyrus”, an ancient Egyptian mathematics text for apprentice scribes : “The common unit of volume, used for measuring amounts of grain or flour, was the hekat, approximately equal to 4.8 litres or just over a [British] gallon. (...) For smaller amounts, the hekat could be progressively halved to give /2, /4, /8, /16, /32, and /64 fractions. (...) [These ] are known as the Horus-eye fractions, because they were written with distinctive signs that resemble the parts of the eye of the falcon- headed god Horus, known as the wedjat-eye. The actual color of the pupil is black.
Using & Applying < Maths Zone - Free Cool Learning Games for School Symbols & Formulae Problem solving Money Equivalence Using Money Fraction problems Fractions & the Virtual Pet - Math Maven Decimals Problems Decimals - Ngfl Cymru Decimals - Ngfl Cymru order decimals, addition and subtraction of decimals, solve word problems involving decimals yr 5/6 Mult or Div by 10 or 100 - M Weddell Mult or Div by 10 or 100 - M Weddell Choose correct answer (from 7 possibilities) to the given sum. Patterns & Sequences Patterns & Properties Angles - Problem Solving Puzzles and logic problems Totally Random Questions Egyptian Fractions at Math Cats Instead of writing 2/5, they wrote 1/3 + 1/15. For 2/7, they wrote 1/4 + 1/28. Some of the fractions were very complicated. For 2/29, they wrote 1/24 + 1/58 + 1/174 + 1/232 ! How do we know about Egyptian fractions? part of the Rhind papyrus
Window Patters with the Simple Kite The simple kite ,so called because it is the easiest to fold from A paper, has angles of 45, 90, 90 and 135. It needs just two folds to create. When you have folded one then it can easily be used as a template. Place it on about 4 other sheets and cut out more kites. Four Pointed star Use pairs of kites to make rhombi like this. Then combine pairs of rhombi to make four pointed stars. These look good against the light Combining two of the four pointed stars gives an 8 pointed star. A lovely 8 pointed star emerges inside when the pattern is placed against the light. Lay out 4 kites in this pattern and then overlay another four kites to give this star. This gives a delightful and simple effect against the light. Placing the kites accurately is not easy so here are two ways way to get the kites in the correct place. Method 1 Use one of the one of the original rectangles that was used to make the kite ( or one of the other kites). Method 2 Prepare asset of lines radiating at 45 degrees.
PLAT Online Mathematics Math Cats Balance Choosing how many objects:Scroll through the number menus to choose a multiple and a power of ten. For instance, if you choose the number 4 and next to it the number 100,000, the balance will place 400,000 objects on that side of the scale. You will still only see one object, but the scale is weighing 400,000 of them. top . How to balance the objects: Experiment with the number of objects to place on the balance. When you are comparing two objects of very different mass, you might multiply one object by a large number and multiply the other side by a fraction. Not every pairing of objects can be balanced if the difference in their mass is too vast. top . 1) Click on the object and a small window will pop up announcing its weight. You might find that the actual weights of the objects do not exactly confirm your explorations. (You may click the menu bar to choose the unit of measurement you like; this example uses kilograms.) The neutron star is shown through an x-ray telescope. top
Tree Measurement - fieldwork - L a n d L e a r n - Australia Contents: 1. Measurement in the field - techniques Introduction: Vegetation management on both public and private land, in farm forestry, native forests, gardens and parkland provides examples of monitoring techniques which can be applied with students. Students will be able to: Equipment: (i) Data collection - Measurements of a single tree 1. The diameter of a tree provides a measure of tree performance and is required for estimating tree volume. By convention, the diameter of forest trees is measured 1.3 metres above the ground. When estimating tree volume it is best to have a value of 'Diameter at Breast Height Under Bark' (DBHUB). 2. The height of young trees (up to 6 metres) is easy to measure using a height-measuring pole or a plastic pipe marked at 0.1 metre intervals, but as trees grow, measuring their heights becomes increasingly difficult. Total Tree height (Ht) refers to the vertical height from ground level to the tip of the tree. How to measure the height of a tree: 3. 4. 5. S.
KS2 - 'Maths on Target' by Stephen Pearce New Curriculum 2014 We are currently writing new material for the curriculum changes to come into effect September 2014. These new books will follow our very successful Maths on Target series written by Stephen Pearce and will be called 'Target Your Maths.' Sample pages will be available soon. We hope to have these books available for purchase by September 2014. Maths on Target by Stephen Pearce (published 2008) The Maths On Target books build on the enormous popularity of Target Maths, which was first published in 2002. The intention of the book is to provide teachers with material to teach all the objectives as set out in the yearly programme in the renewed Primary Framework for Mathematics. The work is organised in 'Blocks' and 'Units' as in the Primary Framework. Sample pages Maths on Target Homework Sheets For Years 3, 4, 5 and 6 you can buy a set of 60 photocopiable sheets for homework (A4 size). The sheets are for pupils of all abilities and are easy to set and mark for teachers.
bag of mice at Math Cats What's going on here??? Our mousetrap is called by several names: a bell-shaped curve... a normal distribution curve... a Gaussian curve (named for a German mathematician of the 19th century). A bell-shaped curve shows how likely it is that an event will turn out a certain way (the average way). Our mousetrap predicts that more mice will tumble toward the middle than the edges. Can you think why? Do the mice always pile up to fit the mousetrap exactly? What do you think would happen if you ran this experiment over and over again? A bell-shaped curve that is tall and narrow means we can predict the results with greater confidence. Whenever there is variation in the world around us, we can create a distribution curve to describe it. As for our little mice... our mousetrap curve is rather wide because these mice are a bit bouncy!