1st Edition
Mathematics Lessons to Look Forward To! 20 Favourite Activities and Themes for Teaching Ages 9 to 16
Foreword
Acknowledgements
Prologue
Introduction
On Mathematics education
How to engage with this book
Chapter 1 - What’s in the box
Chapter 2 - Cones
Chapter 3 - If the world was a village of 100 people
Chapter 4 - Goodness Gracious Great Piles of Rice
Chapter 5 - How do I love thee, let me count the ways
Chapter 6 - Number Searches
Chapter 7 - Human Loci
Chapter 8 - Statistics telling stories
Chapter 9 - Match Point
Chapter 10 - Prime Pictures
Chapter 11 - Population Growth
Chapter 12 - Starting from scratch
Chapter 13 - Indestructible
Chapter 14 - Dancing Quadratics
Chapter 15 - Hot Wheels
Chapter 16 - Maxbox
Chapter 17 - Dancing Vectors
Chapter 18 - Pleasure at the Fairground
Chapter 19 - Impossible Diagrams
Chapter 20 - Cubism
Back to the staffroom - an epilogue
Appendix 1 - School of Mathematical behaviour
Appendix 2 - Theory of Knowledge
Biography
Jim Noble is a teacher, workshop leader and author. He has been teaching secondary mathematics since 1999 and working with teachers since 2010. Jim trained in the UK and has worked extensively with the International Baccalaureate. He lives and teaches near Toulouse with his family.
"The book is part memoir, part manifesto, but mainly Jim sharing his favourite activities, gathered from over 20 years in the classroom. Each activity is explained, explored and discussed in detail. [There is] enough in each chapter to persuade and encourage you to work on these activities with your learners." - Mathematics Teaching (ATM)
"I would definitely recommend this book, for both teachers and tutors. It is hard not to be inspired by this book... it had me engaged throughout and created sparks of ideas about designing maths lessons to be purposeful, effective, fun, and memorable." - Becky Bland, Dyslexia Review
