Making connections in mathematics

Starters

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Drawing Shapes in Word
Activity that shows students some of the basic drawing techniques that are available in Word. Teacher notes included.

Student Information (application/msword, 507 KB) (application/pdf, 158 KB)

Foreign Currency
Examples and exercise and experiments including currency exchange and many other topics involving direct proportionality. Teacher Notes included.

Student Information: (application/msword, 448 KB) (application/pdf, 260 KB)

Graphs of Functions in Excel
This activity shows students how to draw graphs of algebraic functions in Excel. Teacher Notes included. The following update has been contributed by Richard Ford (Sussex Downs College) for those who are now using Office 2007. Many thanks Richard.

Student Information (application/msword, 1.1 MB) (application/pdf, 1.8 MB)
Office 2007 version (application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.wordprocessingml.document, 626 KB)