The files below represent some of the materials I am using in my teaching. I’ll be adding more stuff here soon.

Contents

• Maths handouts
• ILT notes and activities
• MS Excel files
• Flash animations produced from OpenOffice 2.0

PDF format Maths handouts ^

Download as PDF files here. Please contact me if you want the Word and Open Office files from which the PDF files were generated. You always need plenty of examples for everything!

• 26 pages of statistics notes for BTEC Applied Science students (650 Kb)
• 6 handouts on errors – absolute, relative; systematic, random (200Kb)
• multiplication tables, adding and subtracting for beginning Access students (150Kb)
• Set of 40 questions on fractions, decimals, percentages, interpreting tables and easy probability (32 Kb)
• 50 mixed questions about Number at level 1 and 2 as a PDF file (276 Kb)

PDF Format ILT handouts ^

• Using PowerPoint 2003 for screen based learning packages [500Kb PDF] how to build navigation using Action Settings
• Setting up folders in My Documents and managing files on floppy discs – many students (and a few teachers) find organising files for use at home and on College computers a challenge. (180Kb)
• Using Blogger based blogs to support students (1236 Kb)

MS Excel spreadsheets ^

Mostly used with a data projector to demonstrate formulas and simulate statistical situations. Used with questions that ask students to predict what will happen next, or that ask students to describe the meaning of the data displayed.

• 95% confidence interval demo (100Kb)
• Graphs altitude of the Sun and Moon for each hour (65 Kb)
• Chi-squared test for 2 X 1 data without Yates’ correction. Simulates fruit fly breeding experiment, and can calculate chi-square statistic for real data. (20 Kb)
• MS Excel spreadsheet draws quadratic and straight line graphs with parameters set using sliders (35 Kb)
• Simple spreadsheet simulates tossing 10 sets of 10 coins (40 Kb)
• Spreadsheet to show superposition of two sine waves of equal amplitude and frequency (140Kb), produced for a colleague who is teaching crystallography…

Flash animations ^

The flash animations below are very basic. They started as MS PowerPoint presentations and were then opened in OpenOffice 2.0 and exported in SWF format. The OpenOffice export function ignores ‘custom animation’ as provided in MS PowerPoint, so ‘builds’ are produced by copying slides and deleting the bits in earlier copies. Further animations on Trig ratios, Straight Line Graphs and a few other topics are coming along soon.

• Perimeters including circumference
• Interior and exterior angles in a polygon
• Simple areas – rectangle, parallelogram and triangle
• Area of circle and simple composite shapes
• Pythagoras and his famous result

If you click on a link above, the Flash animation will load into the Flash player and start playing at the full size of your browser window. You can download the SWF files by right-clicking and ‘save file as…’ (command-click on Mac OS).