Teachers
Strand 4 - Junior Cycle
Teaching and Learning Plans
Document Title
Interactive T&L;: Introduction to Equations
Created by the Project Maths Development Team.
09 January 2013
Interactive T&L;: Introduction to Quadratic Equations
Created by the Project Maths Development Team.
09 January 2013
Interactive T&L;: Introduction to Patterns
Created by the Project Maths Development Team.
09 January 2013
Interactive T&L;: Introduction to Inequalities
Created by the Project Maths Development Team.
16 May 2013
Teaching/Teacher Materials
Document Title
Teaching Algebra in Context.
Using the context of saving money, students discover algebraic operations without formal procedures. Source http://www.math.ccsu.edu/mitchell/mtmsthemoneycontext.pdf
27 February 2012
Student Activity: Algebra & Patterns in Context (with solutions)
Created by the Project Maths Development Team.
27 February 2012
Student Activity: Algebra & Patterns in Context
Created by the Project Maths Development Team
27 February 2012
ICT Course 2 Notes.
The Project Maths Development Team is pleased to inform you that the course notes pertaining to the workshops on using ICT to teach Strands 3, 4 and 5 are now available.
The PMDT has collaborated with the NCTE to provide this course which will show you how you can use readily available software in your classroom to teach geometry, trigonometry and calculus for both Junior and Leaving Certificate.
Note: you must have Geogebra installed on your machine to use this software. Visit www.geogebra.org for more information on how to download.
14 November 2011
A Relations Approach to Algebra.
The activities contained in this document focus on the important role that functions play in algebra and characterise the opinion that algebraic thinking is the capacity to represent quantitative situations so that relations among variables become apparent.
Created by the Project Maths Development Team.
17 October 2011
Student Activity: Algebra matching exercise.
30 September 2011
Teacher Handbooks
Document Title
Third Year Handbook: Strands 1-5
Created by the Project Maths Development Team.
29 February 2012
Second Year Handbook: Strands 1-5
Created by the Project Maths Development Team.
29 February 2012
First Year Handbook: Strands 1-5
Created by the Project Maths Development Team.
05 March 2012
Related Links
links content (Note: Some files are linked to sites external to www.projectmaths.ie)
Information on how to use ICT in the Teaching & Learning for this strand
http://www.projectmaths.ie/geobra/
Video Lectures in Mathematics
This website contains of broad range of useful and interesting maths videos
http://pinterest.com/mathematicsprof/
Graphing Motion Links:
The Moving Man simulation: Learn about position, velocity, and acceleration graphs. Move the avatar back and forth with the mouse and plot his motion.
http://phet.colorado.edu/simulations/sims.php?sim=The_Moving_Man
Useful maths factsheet. Contains information on functions, trigonometry, graphing, calculus etc
http://www3.ul.ie/cemtl/factsheets.htm
