Showing posts with label Maths. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Maths. Show all posts

Thursday, January 22, 2015

More Great Online Games for Maths

Here are a few more games which are great for those who need a little more practise with the basic facts. 

Base Ten Bingo
abcya - Ten Bingo

Equivalent Fractions Bingo
abcya - Equivalent Fractions Bingo

Explore the other games on this site too as there are loads of entertaining, educational games.

Thursday, December 4, 2014

Addition to Ten - online game

This is a great, addictive game to practise addition.
There are two options:

Addition to make 10 Math Lines - addition to 10
Addition to make 20 Math Lines - addition to 20







Sunday, September 25, 2011

Free Online Learning

I came across this website when I was wanting some advice on how to make a column break in Microsoft Word. The advice given was accurat and to the point. I then went to the home page of the website and discovered that you can learn far more than just MS Word. Well worth a look I think.

http://www.gcflearnfree.org/

This comment from a visitor to the site:

A fantastic resource for people needing to update skills – whether 50+ or ‘tween jobs.
Thanks!

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Friday, July 1, 2011

Free math tutoring

http://thefreemathtutor.com/
The home page of this website looks very plain but check out the topics on the right hand side. There are a number of videos for each topic and these guys really know their stuff . 
The explanations are really good and easy to understand.

Thursday, June 23, 2011

Virtual Nerd - Maths Tutorials


http://virtualnerd.com/


Video tutorials for prealgebra, algebra 1, algebra 2, and intro physics. This will also include practice problems and quizzes sometime during 2010-2011 school year. Includes both a free and paid (premium) versions. When you get to the page, scroll to the bottom of the page and click on one of the courses offered  Below are a few examples of the type of tutorials offered.



Popular tutorials in Using The Pythagorean Theorem:

Math Apprentice













http://www.mathapprentice.com/
Math Apprentice answers the question that nearly every student will ask during his or her math career:
When are we ever going to use this in the real world?
Sure, there are some obvious real world connections. Money, time, and measurement are all very relevant concepts. Other areas of math, such as number theory and functions, are more cryptic and can seem disconnected from real life. Math Apprentice reveals the connections by showing students how math is used in a variety of interesting professions.
Math Apprentice invites students to play the role of an intern at one of eight companies in a growing metropolis. Students are greeted by an employee of the company who then explains the math behind the job. They may then choose to solve specific problems or explore math concepts on their own.
Some of the mathematics in Math Apprentice may seem advanced for its targeted age group, grades 4-7. That's ok. It's important for students tointeract with math concepts beyond the standards. This is where the joy of math can often be found.
The goals of this project are to connect math with real world careers, introduce students to more advanced mathematical ideas, and provide additional opportunities to apply math concepts they have already learned.

Algebra in the Real World Movies


Algebra in the Real World will enable you to show your students the excitement, the power, the range and the results of the applications of algebra in fascinating career fields. From astronomy to forestry, sports equipment design to saving endangered species, alternative energy to farming, algebra is shown in its vital role as the tool that allows us to create, to understand, and to improve our world.

Tuesday, May 24, 2011

GCSE Maths tutorials


The following link takes you to a YouTube video on GCSE Maths - the topic of the video is vectors but there are plenty more topics available.. At last count, Steve, the guy who does the videos had 1,464 videos posted. Well worth a look if you want some help with GCSE Maths.

Thursday, February 17, 2011

The Story of 1

Our world is built on numbers and the first of these was the number 1. Starting with scratches on a bone and heading through the Greek philosophers to the development of the Roman Numerals and the Arabic number system that fed through to the numbers we use today.
Using Terry Jones semi-comic presentation style, the film is built on two key aspects. The main part of the film is based on Jones’ narration, the actual words he says. Without being aloof or inaccessible, the film tells the story in a fascinating and enlightening way – never going into too much detail but doing enough to actually make you feel like you have learn something and have a very broad knowledge base on which to go off and find out more.
The other aspect is the delivery style – colorful, irreverent and fun. Mostly this works and the graphics and comedy add entertainment value to the film without taking away from the interesting content; however at times the constant computerized numbers do get a little annoying and I did want it to be too cheerful and populist but I suppose it was damned if it does and damned if it doesn’t.
Jones is a good presenter because he holds these two directions together – seeming genuinely enticed by the subject while also enjoying himself. He is perfect for the broad approaching while he also drops in some great little bits of trivia (the word bankrupt coming from the Italian courts punishing a cheating banker by breaking his table; or the Italian zero being so mistrusted as a symbol that its original name giving us the word “cipher” today).
Overall, it may annoy the more aloof viewer of intellectual, stuffy documentaries about maths and science but this film succeeds in presenting the potentially dull subject in such a lively and entertaining manner that it deserves the audience it won. Perhaps a little too populist at times, it is still very interesting and enjoyable and is the sort of programme that almost makes you think that the BBC is fulfilling its public service charter.