Teachers
Strand 4 - Senior Cycle
Teaching and Learning Plans
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Teaching/Teacher Materials
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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
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Senior Cycle Handbook: Strands 1 -5 (Leaving Certificate Ordinary Level)
Created by the Project Maths Development Team.
Note: Lesson 50 on page 61 of this document has been modified. "Combinations" are no longer required for Leaving Certificate Ordinary Level. See 2012 syllabus page 17 Strand 1.1 for further information.
10 March 2012
Senior Cycle Handbook: Strands 1-5 (Leaving Certificate Higher Level)
Created by the Project Maths Development Team.
Note: Pages 70 to 72 of the Leaving Certificate Higher Level Handbook have been updated to include the following:
Drawing inferences from data, the concept of a hypothesis test, margin of error.
29 February 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
