dijous, 24 de juny del 2010

Farewell

Hi everybody,
It's been a great year!
I hope you have enjoyed the adventure of using real English in Maths and that you have a good time this summer. I'll see you next year.

P.S Don't forget to practise if you can !

divendres, 4 de juny del 2010

Linear function

Properties of a Straight Line Graph

If y = m x is the equation of a function of proporcionality, what does m mean ?

Try to understand it with this link


This is a linear graph, but it's not a function of proporcionality

divendres, 28 de maig del 2010

Drawing graphs II



Q5.On sports day the first three in the 1 000 m race ran as shown in the graph below.


a) Wich runner, A, B or C, won the race?

b) How long did the winner take?

      1. Which runner kept up a steady speed?

d)What was that speed

      1. in m/min?

      2. In km /h ?

e) Which runner achieved the fastest speed and what was that speed?


Q6. Two cars start a journey a midday(1200) one travels from A to B, and the other from B to A. The distance between A and B is 80 km. The speed of the first car is 48 km/h and the other car B travels at 60 km /h

The graph below shows these journeys




dimecres, 26 de maig del 2010

dilluns, 26 d’abril del 2010

Volume of the cylinder

A hands-on activity to discover the formula for the volume of a cylinder. You will need clay, ruler and a newspaper.


Visualising formula for volume of cylinder-Clay activity

diumenge, 25 d’abril del 2010

Pythagoras'Theorem



Pythagoras'Theorem states that for all right-angled triangles, "The square on the hypotenuse is equal to the sum of the squares on the other two sides".

dissabte, 24 d’abril del 2010

Basic Geometry

The page I showed last Friday in the class room is Figures Speak Mathematics.Click here if you want to revise what we saw. I think the title is true,any figure speaks mathematics you only have to look at it carefully.