'This is an essential resource book for all secondary mathematics teachers. There are so many lovely ideas to access students to concepts through investigative approaches to learning. Colin offers an approach which teachers can adopt and adapt to existing schemes of work and which takes on board key issues of differentiated learning and teaching without a textbook. I shall definitely ... Read morerecommend this book to friends and acquaintances who teach mathematics... in fact I already have done.' Mike Ollerton, experienced teacher, teacher trainer and consultant, UK 'A plethora of rich tasks: with the lessons already planned for you - from start through to homework...The title of this book understates what it provides. This is far more than a book of resources - this is a book of gems. These are lessons that will engage the students (and the teachers) in some quality mathematical thinking.'Karen Hancock, Advanced Skills teacher, Oriel High School, Crawley, UK [This book] contains 70 different activities with over 300 pages covering a huge range of topics...The...self-differentiating nature allows more flexibility and to a certain extent makes life easier for teachers who do not need to find 5 different activities in one lesson!...The author states in the introduction that mathematical tasks presented in this book seek to draw on learners' innate abilities to make sense out of situations - to bring order out of chaos. I agree. Many activities lead pupils through an investigational idea which may appear random initially, but the sheets show how to order the data into something meaningful. I would recommend every department having a copy on their shelves. It might also be a good idea to go through one at a department meeting every now and again. How they are used will depend on the teacher and class, but the ideas presented make for strong foundations.
Sanford Lakoff 'Each lesson has a very rich feel to it, giving lots of opportunity for class discussion... This is just the right book at the right time - as we're looking to new GCSE courses and would like more rich tasks to help our students think, and think more widely, about each topic - this is ideal.' Peter Hall, AST Mathematics Show Less