Jamie Wood
@jamiewoodmaths
Maths teacher for 8 years, I now make maths revision resources for a website. I mostly taught A level Maths & Further Maths in a sixth form, but I now produce content for all sorts of maths courses and levels.
This was on a local company's website, selling firewood A lot of "interesting" maths in here to unpack! Stick this on the board and see what students notice.
As of yesterday, as Liverpool won the league, the list of Premier League winning teams now forms a Fibonacci sequence 😎
This is AQA GCSE Nov 2019 Paper 3 Q27. I think there are several cases where XY and PQ would be parallel, as there are basically no restrictions on where the vertices are. E.g. what if PQRS is a rectangle? Any thoughts? Is this an oversight in the question?
Thinking up names like this is honestly one of the highlights of my job
Spec is def not clear but this is from the Pearson tbook, feels like it's presented as "you should know these" (sadly). I hate having to tell them to remember stuff like this; should definitely be in the formula book IMO. (esp considering how much stuff is in there that isn't actually useful!)
Been working with lots of AP Calc stuff recently and they are quite picky about their wording for graphs/functions. E.g. look at this. Notice it talks about the graph of f being concave down, rather than just f being concave down