The presentation I used in Friday’s lesson with a sound track. You will want to pause the video at various points to work out the answers to problems for yourself, the video presents the answers!
You will need a calculator with a square root button. Make sure you know how to find a square root on your particular calculator.
On Module 5 you will need to draw ‘constructions’ with a ruler, compasses and pencil. Typical constructions include:
* Drawing a line perpendicular to another line at a given point
* Bisecting an angle
The YouTube presentations below have been provided by ‘capitalone’ who is a Maths teacher in a UK school. Quite a few teachers are putting stuff on YouTube now.
Perpendicular to a line
Bisecting an angle
Watch this for an overview of circle areas with examples. Be prepared to pause the video and reach for your calculator…
I’m assuming you know about the circumference of a circle!
The YouTube walks you through the formulas for the area of a rectangle, a parallelogram and a triangle. I’ll pop a quiz here sometime before Friday.
Note: we are going ahead with the Algebra coursework now!
I made an ‘audio lesson’ about areas and perimenters for a student who was on shift work last year. To use this lesson, you need to
The audio file is in mp3 format and can be downloaded to your computer (right click over link, save file as…), and you need to draw on the handout and to use a calculator when listening.
I think that 14 minutes is a bit long for an audio lesson. I put the visuals into a YouTube file these days. See what you think.
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