MathsClass

Playing with the kids’ toys on the weekend, I came across this car and became interested by the relationship between pulling it back and how far it would travel.

Was it a linear relationship or something else?

I’m not trying to present a view, either way, on the carbon tax being debated in Australia. But those against the carbon tax seem to be providing some good fodder for the maths classroom.

A worksheet to accompany the online tool Pictogram Graph (see on MathsLinks).

Some chocolate discussion starters for looking at bar graphs: a series of chocolate bar graphs.

Despite every Year 9 student having a laptop for a few weeks, the topics we’ve been covering haven’t lent themselves to full laptop lessons. To end the term, though, we’re reviewing graphs.

Here’s a great example of a graph that is just wrong, the data may be correct, but it has obviously been represented the wrong way. Watch the video…

Dilbert answers:

In my fourth year of teaching, I’m finally happy with how teaching sector graphs went.

As I was putting together a lesson on using conversion graphs, I couldn’t find a nice temperature conversion graph – so I created one.