Comments on: Four Great Resources For Math Teachers, Now Free

By: Jon Tyndall

Jon Tyndall — Sat, 22 Mar 2014 01:01:16 +0000

Sorry Robert – I’ll try!
If this link doesn’t work, a search for Mechanics in Action on the National STEM Centre site should turn it up quickly.

http://www.nationalstemcentre.org.uk/dl/03d8c5ae691ade331b851e85a0955d9c8ac0524c/3635-Mechanics%20in%20action.pdf

By: Elaine Watson

Elaine Watson — Mon, 17 Mar 2014 23:54:04 +0000

Dan and Michael,

Wow! Thanks for letting us know about the rich treasure trove of quality materials from the Shell Centre! Everything that I’ve seen from them has been great.

By: Dan Meyer

Dan Meyer — Fri, 14 Mar 2014 14:23:47 +0000

I’ve got that link fixed.

By: Roberto Catanuto

Roberto Catanuto — Fri, 14 Mar 2014 11:30:57 +0000

@jon it seems the link http://www.nationalstemcentre.org.uk/dl/282b43b70d7c787742fd3180eacd51b56013be25/3635-Mechanics%20in%20action.pdf

is broken. Could you verify that?

Thanks

By: Tsee Lee

Tsee Lee — Fri, 14 Mar 2014 02:34:40 +0000

It’d be great if someone (or everyone) can suggest the most useful books from this site for each subject, for those of us without either time or expertise to sort through the resources. I know it’s a lot to ask, so I’d be very grateful.

By: Sam Jones

Sam Jones — Mon, 10 Mar 2014 21:54:17 +0000

I find it most interesting to note the copyright of these materials – 1985. Anticipating Common Core 30 years ago!

By: Adam Poetzel

Adam Poetzel — Sun, 09 Mar 2014 04:15:09 +0000

Many years ago as a first year math teacher, a respected veteran in my department showed me this book and we used many of the tasks and problems in our Algebra classes. As a new teacher, using the tasks in this book really helped me to understand what it meant to have students “create arguments and critique the reasoning of others”. Math reasoning was alive and well as students engaged with the interesting scenarios and representations in this book. Thank you Shell Centre!!! (and thanks to that veteran teacher for taking me under her wing!)

By: Jon Tyndall

Jon Tyndall — Fri, 07 Mar 2014 20:36:27 +0000

While we're raving about STEM, here's some excellent stuff to make mechanics even more interesting. Over in the UK there's no coursework so a lot of this has fallen by the wayside. Such a shame. Skip the first bit and get onto the experiments and demonstrations. Thanks for the Shell stuff - that photocopying bill is going up and up!

By: Roberto Catanuto

Roberto Catanuto — Fri, 07 Mar 2014 09:16:31 +0000

Great news, I’ve been using their MARS assessment project for about a year, and yes it’s great.

Can’t wait to diving deeper into these new resources.

Best,
Roberto.

By: Megan Schmidt

Megan Schmidt — Fri, 07 Mar 2014 00:40:10 +0000

I’ve had those books in my Evernote files for a while now. They were resources that I saved and tagged with the intention of going back through them when I needed resources on functions. I will definitely look at them more closely.
As long as we are praising the Shell Centre, the Download Materials tab contains some great resources as well.
And as long as we are sharing resources from the UK, their National Stem Centre is an EXCELLENT treasure trove of oldies but goodies. http://www.nationalstemcentre.org.uk/
In fact, most of these downloads from the Shell Centre are also available on the Stem Centre site.
A personal favorite is the collection from the Nuffield Foundation:
http://www.nationalstemcentre.org.uk/elibrary/maths/search?facet%5B0%5D=subject%3A%22Mathematics%22&facet%5B1%5D=publisher%3A%22Nuffield+Foundation%22&order=score&filter=C
Additionally the SMILE collections are amazing:
http://www.nationalstemcentre.org.uk/elibrary/maths/search?facet%5B0%5D=subject%3A%22Mathematics%22&facet%5B1%5D=publisher%3A%22SMILE%22&order=score&filter=C