What's the point of... Geometry?

A poster suggesting some of the uses of geometry.

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What's the point of... Geometry?

What's the point of... Exponentials?

A poster introducing some of the uses for exponential functions.

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What's the point of... Exponentials?

What's the point of... Distributions?

A poster introducing some of the uses for statistical distributions.

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What's the point of... Distributions?

What's the point of... Differentiation?

A poster presenting some of the uses of differentiation.

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What's the point of... Differentiation?

What’s the point of... the Binomial Theorem?

A poster presenting some of the uses of the Binomial Theorem.

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What's the point of... The Binomial Theorem?

What's the Point of... Algebra?

A poster presenting just a handful of uses of algebra.

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What's the Point of... Algebra?

What’s the point – Aerial Photography

Free printable posters discussing some of the mathematics represented in a photograph of a street performer.

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What’s the point – Index Jump

Mathstonbury

Some maths teaching activities based on Glastonbury! This is a lot more contrived than much of the stuff I try to link to on here, but having been part a festival committee many moons ago the general idea of some of these is close to bits of the reality.

Mathstonbury at Mathmaticow.com

Space Maths: Teaching Resources

STEM Learning play host to a collection of teaching resources from the European Space Education Resource Office:

ESERO & STEM Learning: Space Teaching Resources: https://www.stem.org.uk/esero/resources

How to Draw an Ellipse

As part of an online session on Kepler's 1st & 2nd laws I described how to draw an ellipse using two pins, a pencil, and a loop of string. The participants asked for some instructions that they could use after the session, so here they are: