Resources

Descent

Carom Maths provides this resource for teachers and students of A Level mathematics.

This activity explores an example of the Descent method. This method was popularised by the famous mathematician Pierre de Fermat...

Describing and defining quadrilaterals

This lesson develops the concept of naming and classifying quadrilaterals according to their properties. Students identify the minimal information required to define a quadrilateral. They sketch quadrilaterals with given conditions.

During the first part of the lesson students choose from the words ‘all’, ‘...

Describing and defining triangles

This lesson develops the concept of constructing triangles with given conditions. In particular students will:

• Recall and apply triangle properties
• Determine whether a set of given conditions for the measures of angle and/or sides of a triangle describe a unique triangle, more than one...

Describing Forces

These diagnostic questions and response activities (contained in the zip file) support students in being able to:

• Describe how forces always arise in pairs

• Label force arrows to describe the action of the force

• Represent the size and direction of a force with an...

Describing Sounds

In this resource from Teachers TV, a professor plays a variety of sounds to his assistant, Sam. She then indicates how she feels about each noise with a smiley, sad or neutral face. The sounds include a bird warbler, an alarm clock and a vacuum cleaner.

This Key Stage One lesson starter stimulates...

Describing speed

These diagnostic questions and response activities (contained in the zip file) support students in being able to:

• Identify an object that has a higher speed because it travels further in a given time
• Identify an object that has a higher speed than another when they travel different distances...

Describing the journey of a cargo ship from a distance-time graph

This resource provides a series of activities which develop pupils' skills interpreting distance-time graphs and using them to calculate the speed of an object. The initial task ask pupils to interpret a distance-time graph qualitatively which is followed by a quick quiz to check pupils understanding of distance,...

Describing the motion of a warehouse robot from a velocity-time graph

This resource provides a series of activities which develop pupils' skills interpreting velocity-time graphs and using them to calculate the acceleration of an object. The initial task ask pupils to interpret a velocity-time graph qualitatively which is followed by a quick quiz to check pupils understanding of ...

Descriptive Statistics

This resource is designed to help students understand:

• Different averages: the mean and the median.

• Measures of spread: the standard deviation and the interquartile range.

• Statistical diagrams: histograms and boxplots.

Self teaching notes and questions are contained on the work...

Descriptive Statistics is the name the Continuing Mathematics Project has given to a sequence of four units which deal with distributions, histograms, bar charts, frequency tables and measures of central tendency and dispersion. The first unit, Presenting Statistics, aims to teach some basic statistical techniques...