Saturday, 27 December 2014

Homework: Isometric Rotations: due 13th Jan 2015

Order of Rotational Symmetry


  • On Isometric Paper, draw a regular hexagon (six sides with equal length sides), and divide the hexagon into six equal parts.  Each segment should be an equilateral triangle, with each side the same length, and each angle 60 degrees. 
  • Draw a design in one triangle and rotate the design five more times. 
  • If necessary use some tracing paper, to make sure you are rotating your design correctly.  If you don't have tracing paper, using baking / parchment paper.

Links for information on Rotational Symmetry:

http://www.mathsisfun.com/geometry/symmetry-rotational.html

http://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/ks3/maths/shape_space/symmetry/revision/4/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rotational_symmetry

http://www.icteachers.co.uk/children/sats/rotational.htm

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OC2e9PGYYN0

Sunday, 14 December 2014

Homework: Christmas Holidays

Dear 7C & 7K

Over the Christmas break, please:
  • Correct ALL your corrections from ALL MODULES, so that we can get them signed off.
  • Complete any outstanding tasks from previous modules.
  • Organise your book: stick in 'k' signed sheets, etc.

Have a Happy Christmas and a Merry New Year.

Homework 12th December: Colouring (Alegbra or Calculations)

Dear 7C & 7C

  • Please do either / both sides of the colouring sheet for Tuesday 16th December. 
  • If you have lost your sheet, please see me Monday 15th, Break 1 or Break 2 or afterschool for a replacement.
  • If you do not complete a side by Tuesday, Detention after school on Tuesday.
  • If you need help, I am in the Maths Office.
  • Have fun.

Thursday, 4 December 2014

Maths Cartoons


 

 




Maths Jokes!


Talking sheepdog gets all the sheep in the pen for his farmer. He comes back and says ‘All 40 accounted for.’ Farmer says, ‘I’ve only got 36!’ Sheepdog replies, ‘I know, but I rounded them up.'
Hired an odd-job man to do 8 jobs for me. When I got back, he'd only done jobs 1,3,5, and 7
 
Have you heard about the mathematical plant? It has square roots
 
After careful investigation, it was found that aliens' heights were paranormally distributed
 
I hit someone with a scientific calculator - I used the cosh button
 
What kind of tree could a maths teacher climb? = Geometry
 
What do you get if you cross a maths teacher and a clock? Arithma-ticks!
 
Last night I dreamed that I was weightless! I was like, 0mg

Dara's Everyday Maths Whiz Quiz


Question 1 of 20: A nice easy one to start. You're in the newsagent buying a choccy bar (65p), a can of pop (75p) and your favourite Stamp Collecting Monthly (£4.85). What's your change from a tenner?

£3.75
£3.25
£2.95
£2.85

Question 2 of 20: Staggering into work one Monday morning, you're briefly awoken from your zombie-like state with news of a 12% rise on your £25,000 salary. So what's your new pay?

£26,000
£27,000
£28,000
£29,000

Question 3 of 20: You're getting a round in. Three of you want pints of lovely, lovely bitter, while the other – who's been watching too many 60s-set American dramas – opts for a double bourbon on ice. If a beer costs £4.20 and a shot of bourbon is £3.50, what'll it come to?

£19.60
£20.40
£21.20
£22.40

Question 4 of 20: Looking to impress your other half with an impromptu holiday, you bag a bargain package trip to Kabul at the specially slashed rate of £235. If that's a saving of 60%, what would the original price have been?

£376.00
£587.50
£705.00
£940.50

Question 5 of 20: Sitting in your undies and playing online roulette in a manner very much like James Bond, you bet £5. Your number actually comes up and the odds are 35-1, so how much beer money have you won?

£115
£140
£175
£200

Question 6 of 20: Every time you brandish your dusty old laptop in public, people laugh and insult you to your face. You're saving £150 a month towards a new one. If you've already got £210 and your dream laptop costs £1100, how long until you can get it?

Four months
Five months
Six months
Seven months

Question 7 of 20: You and five mates are in your local curryhouse and thanks to massive beerage, the bill has come to £240. You decide to tip 15% on top of that - so how much should everyone pay?

£26
£36
£46
£56

Question 8 of 20: You and your closest pals are going on a wild weekend to Amsterdam to… um.... to see the Van Gogh paintings! If the current exchange rate gets you 1.4 euros for every pound, how much will you get for £400?

530 euros
540 euros
550 euros
560 euros

Question 9 of 20: Those lovely people at your car insurance company have decided to up the premium from £550 to £605 this year. What, roughly, is the percentage increase you'll shortly be whinging about to your friends?

5%
10%
15%
20%

Question 10 of 20: You're dividing a cake up at a small birthday get-together. Two guests are on diets and only want an eighth each. One is drunk and greedy and demands a quarter. You take a sixth for yourself, which leaves how much for hangover breakfast the next day?

A third
A quarter
A fifth
A sixth

Question 11 of 20: You want to buy a nice rug to make people think you're an actual grown up. If the living room measures 14 metres by 10 metres, and you want to leave a border two metres wide around the rug, what size should it be?

60 square metres
96 square metres
106 square metres
136 square metres

Question 12 of 20: You finally get round to setting up a savings account and proudly plonk £400 in there, with the promise of 5% interest being added annually. Even if you never added anything yourself, how much would be waiting for you in three years?

£450.10
£463.05
£476.45
£490.25

Question 13 of 20: There's one minute to go before the 2-for-1 happy hour ends and there's no time to waste. You hand over £20 and ask for as many drinks as you can get. You get £2 change and eight drinks – which means each drink normally costs what?

£4.00
£4.25
£4.50
£4.80

Question 14 of 20: Since you earn more than your beloved, lazy other half, you've gallantly/stupidly agreed to pay 2/3rds of all bills. This quarter, the grand total has come to £450 – so how much will your pockets be weeping?

£300
£320
£340
£360

Question 15 of 20: After putting it off forever, it's time to sort out the muddy World War One trench that is your lawn. If it measures 15 metres by 9, and the grass seeds you need cost 46p per square metre, how much will you have to spend?

£43.35
£49.50
£55.66
£62.10

Question 16 of 20: Say you're idling along the motorway at a respectable 70mph, and the next service station is 10 miles away, when can you tell your whinging passengers they can finally tuck into a freshly microwaved full English?

7 minutes
8.5 minutes
9 minutes
10.5 minutes

Question 17 of 20: You notice a dartboard in your local and decide it's time your friends got wind of your latent darting genius. If the starting score is 501 and you throw a treble 16, a double 17 and a treble 12, what will this leave you with?

490
420
399
383

Question 18 of 20: Due to a combination of rubbish lager and 4am Xboxing, you don't rock up to work until 11.23am. You then leave due to "sickness" at 4.15pm. If your usual hours are 8.30am to 6pm, how many minutes of toil have you cunningly avoided?

111
189
278
301

Question 19 of 20: Your admittedly bizarre local independent supermarket runs a special "Discount Tuesday" deal where every product over a fiver is discounted by 10%. If you buy eggs for £1.99, sausages for £2.60, a ribeye steak for £10.70, a bottle of rum for £15.90 and a bumper six-pack of Kebab Flavour instant noodles for £5.50, how much will you spend?

£25.89
£33.48
£38.50
£40.32

Question 20 of 20: You've started a new job at a dodgy sales company that makes Boiler Room look like Open All Hours. Your base monthly take home is £2,000, but you've got to sell £17,000 worth of useless stuff every month. Good news is you get 10% extra for everything beyond that quota. If you sold £27,200 in month one, what would your total pat be?

£3,110
£3,020
£2,890
£2,060

 

 

Maths Websites, Books, DVDs & Activities


Maths websites:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/learning/subjects/maths.shtml

http://www.mrbartonmaths.com
http://www.ambleside.cumbria.sch.uk/index.php?category_id=18

http://www.mathplayground.com/index.html

http://www.woodlands-junior.kent.sch.uk/maths

https://www.youtube.com/user/khanacademy
 
Lower School Maths Books:
Counting on Frank, R Clement, Houghton Mifflin, 978 0 395 70393 9
Maths Curse,  J Scieszka & L Smith, Viking, 978 0 670 86194 1

The Moscow Puzzles, 359 Mathematical Recreations, B A Kordemsky, Dover Books, 978 0 486 27078 4
Murderous Maths: Numbers: Hippo, Scholastic, 9780439 981163

Murderous Maths, Hippo, Scholastic, 9780439 011563
The Number Devil, Hans Magnus Enzensberger, Granta, 9781862 073913


Maths DVDs:
CGP Maths Tutor, GCSE Maths Videos, Foundation Level, 9 781847 627742

CGP Maths Tutor, GCSE Maths Videos, Higher Level, 9 781847 627759


(Both available from the school shop in the Reception area)

Upper School Maths Books:
The Number My5steries, Marcus du Sautoy, 4th, 9780007 278626

1089 & All That, David Acheson, Oxford, 9780199 590025
How many Socks make a Pair?  Rob Eastway, JR Books, 9781907 532283

Why do Buses come in Threes?  R Eastway & J Wyndham, Portico, 9781861 058621
An Epic Search for Truth, Logicomix, A Doxiadis & C Papadimitriou, 2009, Bloomsbury, 978-0-7475-9720-9

The Simpsons and their Mathematical Secrets, Simon Singh, 2013, Bloomsbury, 978-1-4088-3530-2 

Adult Maths Books:
Maths for Mums and Dads, R Eastaway & M Askew, 2010, Square Peg, 978-0-224-08635-6

More Maths for Mums and Dads, R Eastaway & M Askew, 2013, Square Peg, 978-0-224-09531-0
The Maths Handbook, R Elwes, Quercus, 978-0-85738-584-0

Maths in Minutes, P Glendinning, Quercus, 978-1-78087-369-5
Thinking in Numbers, D Tammet, Hodder, 978 1 444 73744 8

Mathematics MINUS Fear, Lawrence Potter, Marion Boyars, 9780714 531151
Innumeracy, John Allen Paulos, Penguin, 9780140 122558

The Language of Mathematics, Keith Devlin, Holt, 9780805 072549
The Elephant in the Classroom, Jo Boaler, Souvenir Press, 9780285 638754

It Just Doesn't Add Up, Explaining Dyscalculia and Overcoming Number Problems for Children and Adults, Filament Publishing, 978 1 908691 85 9
Your Teenager, Thinking about your child during the Secondary School Years, M Harris, Karnac Books, 978-1-85575-408-9

The Language of Mathematics (Making the invisible visible), Devlin, 2000, Holt, 978-0-8050-7254-9
Super Crunchers, Ian Ayres, Bantam, 9780553 805406

Thinking Mathematically, J Mason & L Burton & K Stacey, Prentice Hall, 9780273 728917
Fermat’s Last Theorem, Simon Singh, 2005, Harper Perennial, 9-781841-157917 

In Code, S Flannery & D Flannery, 2003, Profile Business, 9-781861-972712
Chaotic Fishponds and Mirror Universes, R Elwes, Quercus, 978-1-78087-160-9

A Mathematician’s Lament, P Lockhart, 2009, Bellevue Literary Press, 978-1-934137-17-8
Uncle Petros and Goldbach’s Conjecture, A Doxiadis, 2000, Faber& Faber, 978-0-571-20511-9

Turing (A Novel about Computation), C H Papdimitriou, 2005, MIT Press, 978-0-262-66191-1
Flatland, a Romance of Many Dimensions, E Abbott, 1884, Dover Thrift Editions, 978-0-486-27263-4

 
Maths Activities:
Origami, British Origami Society
http://www.britishorigami.info/society/meetings/london/londonorigami_newsletter/Index.html

Bridge, the card game
http://www.acolbridgeclub.com/

Cooking

Carpentry and building
Music
http://southbanksinfonia.co.uk/events/family-concerts/
http://www.barbican.org.uk/music/event-detail.asp?ID=3949

Lego and construction
Crafts & Beading

Art