The Sydenham Maths Department Blog http://shsmaths.wordpress.com Wed, 10 Sep 2008 08:17:29 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ en hourly 1 http://www.gravatar.com/blavatar/57c424585ced45d6bc4717412e6ae296?s=96&d=http://s.wordpress.com/i/buttonw-com.png The Sydenham Maths Department Blog http://shsmaths.wordpress.com This Site is Now OVER! http://shsmaths.wordpress.com/2008/09/10/this-site-is-now-over/ http://shsmaths.wordpress.com/2008/09/10/this-site-is-now-over/#comments Wed, 10 Sep 2008 08:17:29 +0000 shsmaths http://shsmaths.wordpress.com/?p=741 ]]>

Please adjust your links, clear your caches and head on over to http://www.shsmaths.com

]]> http://shsmaths.wordpress.com/2008/09/10/this-site-is-now-over/feed/ 0 shsmaths goodbye Year 11 into 12 Transition Booklet Answers + Blog Moved!! http://shsmaths.wordpress.com/2008/09/01/year-11-into-12-transition-booklet-answers-blog-moved/ http://shsmaths.wordpress.com/2008/09/01/year-11-into-12-transition-booklet-answers-blog-moved/#comments Mon, 01 Sep 2008 12:06:53 +0000 shsmaths http://shsmaths.wordpress.com/?p=738 ]]>

The answers for the Year 11 into 12 Transition Booklet I have just posted here on the brand new SHSMaths.com site!

Use this new site from now on please – don’t worry, all posts and comments have been transferred over.

You will need to re-register your email address in order to see your comments though – we’ll just need to moderate your first comment. Use your school email please.

Thanks for visiting, and see you over on the new (and hopefully improved!) blog.

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Coming back to school with a cold brain is not a good idea! Time to start it up and find a few gears before September – just over 2 weeks to go.

New Years 8and 9 – see if you can list 30 prime numbers in 2 minutes (practise till you can!!) at http://www.sporcle.com/games/primenumbers.php

New Year 10 – look at the link called fun mathematics and practise your fraction, decimal, percentage conversions.

New Year 11 – some of you have past papers to complete; don’t leave them till the last minute – they are due in on the first day back!! If you weren’t set anything specific, practise everything quadratic and make sure your algebra is in good form :-)

New Year 12 – your workbook needs to be completed by the start of term. Post on the blog if you need help.

New Year 13 – you now have your results so you need to decide if you are happy or want to do resits. If you want to do resits, then get out those past papers and start working through them now. There will be revision sessions for you but there’s not a lot of time with your A2 work as well – and it can’t all be done at Christmas!! C3 has a tremendous amount of trig in it, so you may need to revise your trig in preparation: definitions of sin, cos, tan and their graphs, transformations of trig graphs will be needed.

 

Have fun!! First day back there are maths lessons for Year 13, Year 11 and Year 9 so BRING YOUR CALCULATORS!! Year 13, you’ll need an A4 file for D1 as it can’t easily be done in an exercise book.

 

See you soon :-)

The Maths Department

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Hope you guys are having a good holiday… any help you need on the workbook exercises, just shout here.

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For the Year 12’s who enjoyed Thorpe Park on Thursday (sorry the rest of you, you’ll have to do A-Level Maths if you want to get on the best SHS trip!) how about this – a guy who built a rollercoaster in his back garden. Insane!

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]]> http://shsmaths.wordpress.com/2008/06/24/make-your-own-rollercoaster/feed/ 0 shsmaths blue-flash-roller-coaster-9-500x785 Mr Riedel’s Year 8 class – Pythagoras’ Theorem http://shsmaths.wordpress.com/2008/06/17/mr-riedels-year-8-class-pythagoras-theorem/ http://shsmaths.wordpress.com/2008/06/17/mr-riedels-year-8-class-pythagoras-theorem/#comments Tue, 17 Jun 2008 14:32:39 +0000 shsmaths http://shsmaths.wordpress.com/?p=725 ]]>

Click here for notes from our lesson today.

Homework is to do questions 1 to 5 from exercise 21H on page 413. Since we are going to Box Hill on Friday, please bring this work to Thursday’s lesson. If you have any difficulties, leave a comment or come to see me before the deadline.

]]> http://shsmaths.wordpress.com/2008/06/17/mr-riedels-year-8-class-pythagoras-theorem/feed/ 0 shsmaths Mr Riedel’s Year 9 class – Tangents to circles http://shsmaths.wordpress.com/2008/06/17/mr-riedels-year-9-class-tangents-to-circles/ http://shsmaths.wordpress.com/2008/06/17/mr-riedels-year-9-class-tangents-to-circles/#comments Tue, 17 Jun 2008 14:18:41 +0000 shsmaths http://shsmaths.wordpress.com/?p=723 ]]>

Click here to see notes of the circle facts and proofs based on chords and tangents.

]]> http://shsmaths.wordpress.com/2008/06/17/mr-riedels-year-9-class-tangents-to-circles/feed/ 0 shsmaths Mr Riedel’s Year 7 class – Mean from a Frequency Table http://shsmaths.wordpress.com/2008/06/17/mr-riedels-year-7-class-mean-from-a-frequency-table/ http://shsmaths.wordpress.com/2008/06/17/mr-riedels-year-7-class-mean-from-a-frequency-table/#comments Tue, 17 Jun 2008 09:56:13 +0000 shsmaths http://shsmaths.wordpress.com/?p=720 ]]>

Click here for the notes from our lesson today.

Remember to complete questions 1 to 3, calculating means using frequency tables, and hand your work in on Tuesday for marking.

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Ignore this little test please!

Fractal

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If your mental arithmetic is slow or your basic arithmetic skills are a bit dodgy

have a look at this site for some fun practice.

http://www.mathplayground.com/math_millionaire.html

The questions change every round so you can keep going back to it.

 

Here’s another one which is good for number work:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/skillswise/numbers/wholenumbers/

Practise moving between fractions, decimals and percentages.

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