Mathematics Lessons to Look Forward To!

This book is essential for anyone involved or thinking about being involved in teaching and learning mathematics at school. It is packed full of practical and fun lesson ideas and activities, combining the author's infectious enthusiasm for school mathematics with the relentless challenge of engaging students with the nature of the subject.

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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.

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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 ****