Down the years I've written lots of free maths resources, mainly for the A Level classroom.
I'm gathering them together here for ease of access. Please help yourself!
The Proving Ground
An introduction to mathematical proof via forty problems,
half of which are resolved and half of which are not.
Available as a free pdf from the Association of Teachers of Mathematics on this link!
Reviews
Maths teachers! Stop what you are doing and get this now!
An absolutely fantastic new book from the wonderful @therispguy.
Intriguing problems supported by detailed discourse.
A great addition to the canon of mathematics teaching.
Mark McCourt @EmathsUK
Loving The Proving Ground by @therispguy;
a masterclass in how everyone can at least make a start on the most intractable of problems.
Some wonderful quotes too!
@positivenumbers
Love The Proving Ground!
Colin Foster
A collection of forty investigative activities for the Further Maths A Level classroom.
Available as a free pdf on this link!
Reviews
This book has reminded me that it is too easy to teach in a routine way,
doing just enough to help the students through the next exercise.
It offers great questions for students to work on on their own,
helping them gain in confidence and understanding as they do so.
These are often our most capable students,
and and this book will significantly deepen and enrich their mathematical experience.
I look forward to using some of these tasks with my class this year,
and I strongly recommend this book for anyone teaching the Further Mathematics course.
Peter Hall, Mathematical Gazette Review, November 2020
A brilliant book.
Collen Young
A tremendous set of resources.
Mike Ollerton
Superb.
Douglas Butler (Autograph)
Write down a mathematical statement, and then rub out the digits 1 to 6 once each.
The puzzle becomes, can your student work out how to replace the missing digits truthfully?
A collection of fifty puzzles for the late GCSE/ early A Level classroom.
Available as a free pdf from the Association of Teachers of Mathematics on this link!
I came across your digitisers puzzles on the ATM website. I am loving them!
Pamela Docherty
@therispguy is a genius. These are fab tasks!
@nicole_cozens
Jonny is a superstar.
Susan Whitehouse (SRWhitehouse Resources)
Risps
A Collection of Forty Open-ended Investigative Activities for the A Level Pure Mathematics Classroom
www.risps.co.uk
This is your annual reminder that Risps by @therispguy are awesome.
Danielle @piximaths
Great fan of Jonny @therispguy ! Do not forget his Risps! Which Google always wants to turn into crisps!
Maths Teacher @MathsTeacherKYP
Risps by @therispguy is SUCH a good set of resources.
Richard Perring
Making Statistics Vital
A Collection of Forty Activities for the A Level Statistics Classroom
www.making-statistics-vital.co.uk
You know when you are looking back through your old planning
and rediscover an awesome website you'd totally forgotten about?
Making Statistics Vital by @therispguy is beaut.
Hannah @missradders
Most popular MSV resource;
This task by @therispguy is just brilliant.
Mark Dawes
Carom
A Collection of Forty Activities bridging from the A Level Pure Mathematics Classroom to University Maths.
www.carom-maths.co.uk
Jonny Griffiths is the author of Risps and much else besides;
he is the finest designer of post-16 mathematical tasks that I know.
Dr Colin Foster (Loughborough University) (Foster77 Mathematics Education)
In 2015, I took part in the brilliant Director GCHQ's Christmas Puzzle Competition.
I was part of a team of old Clare chums that included some veteran puzzlers.
The experience was such fun that I wondered if it could be replicated at A Level.
The next year Ritangle started up,
run by Integral using my questions. ('Ritangle' is an anagram of 'Integral').
Since then I've written (together with Roger Thetford) the questions for the next seven Ritangles.
My friend Bernard Murphy is now in charge. Ritangle 2024 saw nearly 2 000 teams taking part from all over the world.
Past Ritangle questions can be found below;
Comments from teachers;
Y12 loved working together on the problems and are already discussing how they structure their team
and manage their time for the 2024 competition.
They are totally inspired!
We think the people who write Ritangle are utter genius
and want to thank you all for this tremendous experience. Merry Christmas!
Ritangle is without doubt the best maths competition!
The mix of pure and applied whilst allowing coding/MS Excel/Desmos etc is brilliant!
The level of chat about maths, about the problems, about finding new theorems, the joy at looking up formulae,
the use of Python and GeoGebra, has all been amazing.
It's been a wonderful experience, and as a teacher I shall use some of these questions as extensions to classwork.
For the students, they've enjoyed the challenge enormously. Thank you so much.
We had four teams, mostly of Year 12 pupils.
The structure of gradual build up culminated in them staying in school (voluntarily) for hours afterwards.
The excitement about it spread to the whole year.
No-one found the final answer, but I am so proud of them all regardless.
They all had a lot of fun, and learned huge amounts. Thank you for running it!
It was an extraordinarily wonderful thing to be involved with.
The best thing to happen to A Level maths in the last few years.
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