2M5: TIME –Worked through pages 9 to 11 of the “Using Maths in Everyday Situations 2” booklet.
3B3: CIRCLE – Worked through and exercise on circumference and area from the board. We started designing an exam standard question for our peers.
Int2: SURDS – Page 206, Ex7 – ques. 3, 4, 5, 6. Note on “rationalising the denominator”.
Int2 (Mr McDonald’s class): QUADRATIC EQUATIONS – Worked through the quadratic equations lesson on MyMaths.
2M1 – Calculating any side of a right angled triangle given a side and another angle. Looking at some of the practical uses for trigonometry.
4B5 – Using speed distance time relations to calculate any of the three variables, given the other two. Converting fractions of time into hours and minutes and vice versa.
1X3 – Calculating the size of an angle using a protractor and, laterly, naming angles to distinguish angles from one another.
2M3 – DISTANCES & DIRECTIONS – pg 74 Check Up All questions and pg 225 Revision Exercise q. 2 to 7
3B5 – PROBLEM SOLVING – Worked through a number of puzzles from www.subtangent.com/maths
4B2 – REVISION – 2008 Intermediate 2 Paper 2
AH – FURTHER METHODS OF PROOF & NUMBER THEORY – Went over the homework questions set for today and then continued using sigma notation to prove things firstly by induction, and then directly.
5Hc Friday 27th objective questions 30-39 nand 80-89
4B6 Monday 30th General Money worksheet
3B2 Thursday 2nd Feb. Worksheet 2 in homework jotter.
1P1 and 1Q3 Fri 27th/Mon 30th. Create tiling patterns on squared paper.
AH – SEQUENCES & SERIES – Began looking at how to use sigma notation for the sum of an arithmetic sequence.
2M3 – DISTANCES & DIRECTIONS – Used the skills learned over the past three days to use three figure bearings to make scale drawings: pg 72 Ex 4A All questions, pg 73 Ex 4B/C q. 1 to 3 & Investigation q. a,b,c. HOMEWORK: the task Scale Drawing, is to be completed for Thursday 2/2/12.
1Q2 – COORDINATES – Worked through the following tasks from www.mymaths.co.uk, Coordinates 1, Coordinates 2 and OW Coordinates, and then played Flippy Neck.
3B5 – ARITHMETIC – pg 152-153 Ex 13.1 All questions, pg 154-155 Ex 13.2 All questions.
1Y1 – Creating coordinate pictures by joining up four quadrant Cartesian coordinates.
2M1 – Solving trigonometric problems given a side and an angle of any right angled triangle. Textbook 3B Pg 117 Q1 & 2.
INT2 – Solving quadratic equations and simplifying quadratic fractions using the three forms of factorisation.
2M5: TIME – Discussed the 24-hour clock. Worked through pages 5 to 8 of the “Using Maths in Everyday Situations 2” booklet.
3B3: CIRCLE – Continued with our investigation of how to calculated the area of a circle (completed our posters).
Int2: SURDS – Introduced “surds”. Copied down a note then tried some questions from the board. See SURDS for some extra help. Page 206, Ex7 – ques. 1, 2.
2M3 – DISTANCES & DIRECTIONS – Learned how to use three figure bearings to describe the position of an object.
AH – SEQUENCES & SERIES – Completed the questions started on Monday, and then looked at how to use the Euclidean Algorithm to express the g.c.d. of two positive integers in terms of the numbers.
4B2 – REVISION – Carried on working through 2010 Intermediate 2 Paper 2.
1Q2 – COORDINATES – Looked at coordinates beyond zero. Carried on drawing our South Park pictures, and once finished, moved on to pg 64 Ex 2B q. 4
3B5 – MYMATHS – Worked through five tasks from www.mymaths.co.uk
1Y1 – Introduction to Cartesian coordinates, being able to identify coordinates and to revise some key terms in our vocabulary. Textbook Page 112.
2M1 – Choosing the correct trigonometric function for any given right-angled triangle.
4B5 – Revision of the speed, distance, time topic – converting minutes into fractions of an hour and calculating time periods from the 24hr clock – Textbook Page 141.
INT2 – Revision of factorising quadratic functions – solving quadratic functions with and without a right hand value.
2M5: TIME – We did a little revision in reading the time from an analogue clock. “Using Maths in Everyday Situations 2” booklet – pages 1 to 3. We discussed the times of our routines for a typical school day.
4B1: REVISION– Started planning our revision lessons. Some useful sites: http://www.teachertube.com/; http://www.interactivemaths.co.uk/; http://www.quickmath.com/; http://www.subtangent.com/maths/index.php; http://www.mathsrevision.com/; http://nlvm.usu.edu/en/nav/vlibrary.html; http://htends2zero.wordpress.com/downloads/; http://www.mymaths.co.uk/; http://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/.
3B3: CIRCLE – Investigated how to calculated the area of a circle.
Int2: ALGEBRAIC FRACTIONS– Note on adding, subtracting, multiplying and dividing algebraic fractions. Page 200, Ex2 – ques. 2(b,d,e), 3, 5, 6; Page 200, Ex3 – ques. 2(b,c,d,e), 4(b,c,d,e), 5(a,c), 6, 7.
