Mathematics - a Beacon Department

Maths Department

<< Lesley Hatton, Pam Hails and Caroline Thomas

Lesley Hatton, Pam Hails and Caroline Thomas are all experienced and successful Mathematics Lecturers at the College. All have been on Technology in Secondary Mathematics Courses and have developed a range of IT based activities to enhance their teaching in AS and A2 Maths.

 

Sharing Success: Opportunities to share good practice among members of the teaching profession.

Read reviews of past events for this subject:

Using IT to prepare Mathematics materials 2009>>
Mathematics Workshop >>
Using IT to prepare Mathematics materials 2006 >>

USING IT TO PREPARE MATERIALS FOR TEACHING MATHEMATICS

Wednesday 8 July 2009
10.00 – 3.30
Venue: The HENLEY College

Cost: £25 to include registration and lunch.

Would you like to use IT more effectively to create mathematical worksheets?

Would you like to find out more about Autograph (a powerful graph- plotting package designed by and for maths teachers)?

Would you like help in creating some simple PowerPoint presentations?

This is an opportunity to spend some time using IT to prepare materials for teaching maths and to share some ideas and helpful tips. All participants will have access to a computer throughout the day. There will be the opportunity to use some or all of the following:

  • Word, Excel and PowerPoint
  • Autograph
  • Virtual Image (software for students to use in practising algebra etc)
  • Various websites
  • Interactive Whiteboard (SmartBoard)

The day will be appropriate for teachers of A Level and GCSE and is not syllabus specific.

 

USING IT TO PREPARE MATERIALS FOR TEACHING MATHEMATICS
July 2006

This was an opportunity to spend some time using IT to prepare materials for teaching maths and to share some ideas and helpful tips. All participants had access to a computer throughout the day.

  • Word, Excel and PowerPoint
  • Autograph
  • Virtual Image (software for students to use in practising algebra etc)
  • Various websites
  • Interactive Whiteboard

The day was appropriate for teachers of A Level and GCSE and was not syllabus specific.

The sessions were led by Lesley Hatton, Pam Hails and Caroline Thomas.

Quotes from attendees at this Beacon event:

"Way exceeded expectations, I learned so much. Staff very helpful and interested".

"A friendly, hands on, day. Very useful".

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USING AUTOGRAPH IN A LEVEL MATHEMATICS
July 2005

A beginner’s guide to using the graph-plotting package Autograph to enhance the teaching of AS and A2 Mathematics.

Autograph is a powerful graph-plotting package that has been developed by Mathematics teachers and is widely used by schools and colleges at GCSE and A Level.

This was a day designed for those with little or no experience of using ICT in their Mathematics teaching. The course assumed no previous knowledge of Autograph.

Participants had the use of a computer throughout all sessions and had the opportunity to develop ideas to use in their teaching. Topics included calculus, vectors, trigonometry and statistics. There was opportunity for hands-on use of Autograph to develop your own ideas.

Quotes from attendees at this Beacon event:

"I was grateful to have the comprehensive notes; which for all the sessions I found easy to follow and they will be of great use back at school"

"excellent support material"

"course was very useful - pace was good, lecturers were informative"

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