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TSM RESOURCES

A selection of USEFUL FILES

for Mathematics Teaching

Compiled by the iCT Training Centre, Oundle, Peterborough, UK

in association with the
2007 Annual TSM Conference - See 2006 Photo-Report

(Technology for Secondary/College Mathematics), 10-12 July 2007


AUTOGRAPH 3: RELATED FILES - back to top
These are all located on the Autograph Web Site: Home page - Autograph in Action

- Autograph TUTORIALS (Turbo-Demo)

How to create a Turbo-Demo Tutorial

How to create a CHM Instructions File

Two papers from Mathematics Teaching (ATM)
by Douglas Butler

"Migrating 2D to 3D in Autograph" (July 2006)
"What's New in Autograph 3.20" (April 2007)



WORD for Mathematics - back to top

WORD 2003 for Mathematics (Douglas Butler)
WORD 2007 Tips (Allen Wyatt, USA)

WORD 2003-WORD 2007 find the differences!
or: http://Word2003-2007.notlong.com


EXCEL worksheets (.xls) - back to top
NOTE: Some of these pages use harmless Macros - say YES at the prompt!!
In the simulations, follow the instructions about 'Circular References' and 'RANDBETWEEN'
If you are not running Excel, please download the free Microsoft Excel Viewer

JUNIOR MATHEMATICS TOPICS

Rectangular Fencing
N-sided Fence
Phone bill
Pascal's Triangle


DATA

Belly Button-Height (185)
World Population (196 countries)
Mayfield High School (1185 Y7-11)

Sports data (various)
Mile Record (1913-1999)
100m Record (1912-2005)

Oxford Weather (1853-2006)
Reaction Times (200)
Sunrise over Geneva
Weights of Patients (7562)


43rd Mersenne Prime (9Mb)
+ Mersenne Web site

PURE MATHEMATICS TOPICS

Geometric Progression
Gradient of x²
Pythagorean Triples

Turbo-Demo tutorial:
Creating a Slider Bar in Excel

PROBABILITY & STATISTICS

Simulations:
--
1 Die simulation
-- 2-Dice simulation
--
1-Coin simulation
-- 100 Coins
-- UK Lotto simulation

Sampling
-- Binomial(10,0.5)
-- Poisson (2)
-- Poisson(60)

UK Lotto analysis (240kB)
Lotto Generator
Brains and Intelligence
Time series: moving average
Binomial Poisson comparison
Slider-based cum. frequency
Normal calculator

A level (post 16) Excel files
from Mike Hadden
Hills Road 6th Form Coll., Cambridge

Miscellaneous Excel files
from Mark Dabbs
Wakefield Girls High School

More data:
- Sidney Tyrrell's Data page
- TSM Mathematics page


Geometer's Sketchpad files(.gsp)
These files by Douglas Butler will open in GSP v.3 or v.4. To download a demo version of Sketchpad click here.

Circle Theorems
Quadrilateral mid-points
Rhombus construction
Ellipse construction
Parabola construction

Engine motion (animation)

The Euler line
9-point circle
Area of rectangle (quadratic graph)
Volume of box (cubic graph)
Falling Ladder (locus)
Sierpinsky Triangle (Iteration)

Miscellaneous GSP files
from Mark Dabbs
Wakefield Girls High School

Cabri 3D files(.cg3)

Folding Tetrahedron
[from a file by Kate Mackrell]

 



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Last updated: 2nd January 2008