Christian Puritz Libri

Focusing on teaching for mathematical understanding, this practical guide provides example lessons aimed at secondary students aged 11-18. It emphasizes building on existing knowledge and addressing common misconceptions, ensuring students can transfer skills to other subjects. The book covers the entire secondary mathematics curriculum and is an essential resource for both trainee and practicing teachers seeking to make math relevant and engaging for their students.

Including the most able pupils is a challenge, whilst at the same time avoiding the danger of excluding the rest of a class. This work contains worksheets which include routine work, but have difficult questions to provide a challenge for the gifted. It also contains answer sections which provide guidance on these difficult questions.

The author spent many years teaching at a selective school with the constant challenge of including the most able students, whilst at the same time avoiding the danger of excluding the rest of a class. These blackline masters are the many of them include fairly routine work, but each has more difficult questions to provide a challenge for the really able. The answer sections provide guidance on these difficult questions. Book G topics covered Areas, angles and constructions on graph paper; Draw and investigate; Exploring triangles; Starting vectors and Pythagoras; Parallelograms; Regular polygons; Enemy territory using coordinates; Reflections; Calculating Pi; Similar shapes; Loci; Scaling; Tangents and touching circles; Shapes and surds.

Divides mathematics subjects into age groups, with different lessons for each group: ages 11-14, ages 14-16, and ages 16-18.