I know that 50 of you per day are visiting this site, almost all from the UK, and that you spend about 2 minutes each on the site, and look at 2.5 pages on each visit. 98% of the visits are from within the UK (lets hear it for the three of you in St Hellier, and the visitor in Dussledorf!).

Please click on the ‘Ask a question about this item’ link below and let us know who and where you are! You can also ask a question about the Maths.

My students - please ‘ask a question about this item’ as well!

Maths is Fun has a nice interactive straight line graph.

Have a play and see if you can work out what the M and B are for in the formula….

Download a one side summary of the Trigonometry formulas we were talking about in the last lesson

A YouTube is on its way!

Happy holiday all. For those who missed the session this morning, we covered bearings and the nets of common shapes including cuboids and cylinders.

You can download and print a two side handout with short questions on perimeter, area and volume. It needs Adobe Acrobat reader (for PDF files) but most computers have that installed.

You can download a Word file that has the names of all the common shapes and colour drawings of the shapes. If you can’t read Word files, let me know and I will convert the handout to PDF.

You need to be able to recognise shapes like kite, rhombus, parallelogram and so on. As I mentioned this morning, there will always be a diagram with an exam question that involves a property of a shape.

Some people learn best through verbal description, and some through visual reasoning. There is a ‘learning styles questionnaire‘ that you can do if you want to. The VARK questionnaire is used in our 6th form centre to help younger students reflect on their learning. You need to read the FAQ to understand what the results mean!

…to all those taking the AQA Module 1 and Module 3 exams on Monday!

You might want to take some time out tonight (March 3rd) to look at the Moon around 10:40 pm as there is a Lunar eclipse. The Moon appears bright because of the Sunlight reflected from the surface. Tonight, the Moon crosses through the shadow of the Earth. The surface will go darker and redder - the whole event lasts about an hour. There are a couple of lunar eclipses every year but not always visible from the UK. They are less dramatic than Solar eclipses but still visually appealing.

BBC Bytesize have self text quizzes with instant marking. Try some of those to identify areas you need to work on

Easier number topics
Harder number topics

Try looking over the revision topics and then try the quiz pages.

You could also look over some of the links I put on this page when we were dealing with the number module.

The person known as mathstutorbiz has made an interesting video about solving equations. I’ll be going through this topic next week, so see what you think about the presentation here. The presentation is a bit home made, but the mathematical content is spot on.

Mathstutorbiz has other videos at YouTube that will be useful later on. Look for the ones with ‘Intermediate’ in the title.

We need to start the Algebra, Shape and Space module now. I will schedule a revision session for Data and for Number before the March exams.

BBC ByteSize has some revision material on data handling

• Data: the basics
• Data: a bit harder

As we all pay for this through the TV licence, I think you ought to get your money’s worth! I’d allocate an hour to working through the  ByteSize tests and seeing where you need to ask more questions or do more work.