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Christmas Calculated Colouring 2023

As always apologies that this is later than I had originally planned. A combination of school work and feeling poorly meant I didn’t get it up on Monday as I had hoped. Sorry. The keen eyed amongst you will probably spot that I have recycled an image I originally used in a further maths calculated […]

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Christmas Day 2022

In case you can’t manage without a bit of maths you may like to try my Christmas Day task for this year. I like to set a task in Christmas Day for my classes with a prize for the first to submit a solution. Versions Below: A-Level GCSE

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Christmas Calculated Colouring 2022

It’s that time of year again 🙂 My A-Level Christmas Calculated Colouring is now available (downloadable since the evening of the 12/12/22) – I am checking questions for any errors on the 13th so if you can avoid downloading till then you should!). The file with questions can be downloaded here: Christmas Colouring 2022 It […]

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Christmas Calculated Colouring 2021

The time is here again…. This year’s A-Level Calculated Colouring for Christmas – sorry it is a little late. I hope it is still of use to people. Download the file here. Solutions are here also. As always please just message me if you notice any errors.

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Christmas Further Maths Calculated Colouring 2020

Last of the calculated colourings for this year…. Here is one for Further Maths. There are less questions than in the maths version. Of course it is harder to ensure this is suitable for everyone but I hope it is suitable for the majority of Year 12s. It contains questions on complex numbers, matrices, transformations, […]

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Christmas Calculated Colouring 2020

After a very strange year it is is that time of year again….. This should be suitable for most Year 12students and includes questions on Coordinate Geometry, differentiation of polynomials, surds, indices, a small amount of trigonometry. The file is available to download here: http://ifem.co.uk/files/christmas_colouring_2020.pdf I hope your students enjoy it if you choose to […]

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Christmas Further Maths Calculated Colouring 2019

Slightly later than I had hoped due to feeling a bit under the weather here is my first Christmas Further Maths Calculated Colouring. It is designed to be suitable for as many Year 12s as possible and includes topics such as method of differences, matrices, complex numbers, conic sections etc. Please check it is suitable, […]

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Christmas Calculated Colouring 2019

It is that time of year again….. Here is this year’s A-Level calculated colouring – I hope your students enjoy it. The questions are of varying difficulty, some are very easy but some require a bit more thought. It should be accessible to Year 12 mathematicians. Please download the file here http://ifem.co.uk/files/A_level_calculated_colouring_2019_public.pdf There will also […]

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12 Days of Christmas: Day 12 – Perils of Real Life Situations

As this is an extremely late post for the last of the “12 Days of Christmas” series it is very brief. I received this card just after New Year from my aunt: I’ve seen this before but I still find it fairly funny and it is a useful reminder of the problems with trying to […]

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12 Days of Christmas: Day 11 – Further Maths Polynomials Cardsort

Over the last couple of years I have particularly enjoyed teaching and writing interesting questions that concern Vieta’s Formulae. These relate the sums of products of roots of polynomials to the coefficients of the polynomial. I have always liked these, and have a very vivid memory of a Russian lecturer in one of my first […]