Thursday, August 15, 2019

Dan Walker's Resources

Dan Walker is i of my favourite TES authors. His clear, uncluttered resources for Key Stage three to Key Stage v contain lineament explanations too clever activities. His slides are good formatted too laid upward to use, amongst clear fonts too first-class animated diagrams. In this shipping service I percentage simply about examples from Dan Walker's extensive collection which currently stands at 72 resources.

Similarity
These slides encompass the whole breadth of this lovely topic, from identifying similar triangles to working amongst mass too expanse scale factors. I especially similar the laid of questions on forming too solving equations to notice unknowns inward to a greater extent than complex similarity problems.

These slides comprise simply about of my favourite similar triangles activities from Don Steward too the Mathematics Assessment Project. H5N1 let on of challenging extension tasks are likewise included.
Coordinates
Here you'll notice clear slides on coordinates, amongst smart animations too first-class activities for both fluency do too work solving.
Vectors
I dear these slides too activities for didactics vectors. There's a expert 7 lessons worth of cloth here, amongst a twain of activities adapted from Peter Mattock's resources too from an activity on jensilvermath.com (these are all listed inward my shape resources library).
Powers, Roots too Index Laws
This laid of slides explains how powers too roots piece of work too and then goes on to encompass index laws inward detail. It is packed amount of awesome rich tasks too first-class fluency exercises.
Associative too Distributive Laws
I've got a feeling that the associative too distributive laws are oftentimes undertaught (or fifty-fifty untaught) at secondary schools this country, hence it's prissy to come across a expert lineament resources for this topic.
Circle Functions
I'll endure using the activities from these slides side past times side calendar week amongst my Year 11s when I learn them the equation of a circle too tangent to a circle. Like all of Dan's slides, the explanations are clear too the questions are clever.
Completing the Square
This laid of slides for completing the foursquare is designed to run from Year nine through to Year 11. Starting amongst the basics, it progresses at a expert footstep to encompass trickier quadratics (eg completing the foursquare when a > 1) too identifying turning points.
Pythagoras Puzzle
So far I've exclusively featured slides, but Dan's resources likewise include worksheet activities (often codebreakers). This puzzle is a prissy agency to learn students doing loads of Pythagoras practice!
Algebraic Manipulation Maze
I similar this maze - it's groovy for exploring mutual misconceptions.

Dan has made a few of these mazes, including a fractions maze which likewise has a prissy spot the error activity.
Statistics two PowerPoints
Dan has a let on of H5N1 degree resources inward his collection (including D1, D2, M1, M2S1, FP1 too FP2). I've chosen to percentage an extract from his S2 resources because I successfully used them concluding year. These are for the Edexcel specification - you lot learn a laid of slides for each theme along amongst an accompanying workbook.
Problem Solving
This is an awesome resource. Dan has pulled together a large collection of puzzles too animated solutions, many from the Junior or Intermediate Maths Challenges. One of the best things most this resources is that it's organised past times topic, hence it's tardily to notice challenge questions on specific topics for your lessons. I featured this resources inward Gems 48.
Dan's resources likewise include enrichment topics such as base arithmetic too fractals.

I truly would dear to percentage extracts from every unmarried i of Dan Walker's resources, but this shipping service would endure rather long! You'll conduct keep to explore the balance of the collection yourself. It's all free! I'm inward the procedure of adding all of his resources to my resources libraries.

Dan Walker could conduct keep his ain website, too for me it would endure upward at that spot amongst my favourites - Don Steward too MathsPad. Enjoy exploring his resources! Let me know what you lot find.