Welcome
OpenMaths is a long-term project to develop a complete and easily-navigable set of resources for mathematics teaching, that are of a professional quality and wherever possible are freely downloadable.
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What makes it 'open'?
Whilst the aim is to have any conceivable resource for every topic on the syllabus, it would be counter-productive and futile to produce a multitude of permutations of each resource to try and fit any classroom. Instead, each resource has been designed to be high-quality and suitable for the majority of classroom environments, and as many of our files as possible have been made editable, so that it is easy to customise the resources to suit the needs of particular classes.
News and updates
2nd February 2010 - to 7 Holman
The following is a link to the game that I've showed you in today's lesson. Enjoy!
21st January 2010
Added an online scientific calculator, under 'materials', and improved some of the back-end code for the site.
At some point, probably not in the near future, I'm going to start looking for a Flash developer to produce in-house Flash resources. If you happen to be or know such a person, then please contact us.
12th January 2010 - exciting new feature
Well, exciting for me, anyway. The files for each resource are now hidden away, and can be revealed by pressing the 'show files' button. This means that it's a lot easier to look at a page now; you can scan the descriptions until you find something you want to look at, and then check the particular files available for that resource - rather than wading through piles of icons and text that you aren't interested in.
12th January 2010
I discovered today that if your school network blocks YouTube, then the videos (video) on OpenMaths won't work either, as they are (it is) externally hosted on YouTube. As such, I've now added to the help section instructions for downloading videos from here using KeepVid.
Also, on the recommended links down the side, you may have spotted that I've added double arrows in front of each website's name. If you click the arrow instead of the name, it will take you straight to the relevant website, rather than the entry on the OpenMaths recommended page.
11th January 2010
Found an online timer. Tried it out, discovered that it is simple, intuitive, but part of a website (Online Stopwatch) that is packed with useful additions. Added it under 'materials'. Hope you enjoy using it - I'm very happy about this find.
11th January 2010
C Barton of Mr Barton Maths is now also kindly sharing his collection of Tarsia files with me. Once all these files have been sorted and uploaded, there should be quite a comprehensive collection here.
Further, I Marshall has offered me some activities using Autograph, which will also be put up before much longer, and so will further extend what this site has to offer.
Also, the blue squares that have appeared next to each resource are eventually going to be little icons, to indicate at a glance what type of resource is being offered with each entry. Just in case you were wondering.
9th January 2010
The Tarsia help page has been updated, in particular with the latest version of the Formulator Tarsia program. I've also written code that allows me to more easily and consistently give credit to third parties providing resources for OpenMaths - credit where it's due and all that.
8th January 2010
Just added video functionality - principally for my year 7 class right now, and I probably won't upload any more for a while yet. The aim, however, is to eventually start filming some decent tutorial videos, which can then be posted for use in classrooms.
4th January 2010
There are now ten Tarsia activities on the website - mostly in number and algebra, but one for geometry and one for A-level maths as well. Plenty more to come, and if they are of the same quality as these, they will be good resources. So thanks again to M Ladak for that.
Whilst on the subject, if you've got some Tarsia files of your own that you'd like to share, please do contact us.
3rd January 2010
M Ladak of Mathed Up! has kindly allowed me to host his collection of Tarsia files on OpenMaths. Having now written the code to support this new and exciting filetype, these Tarsia will now be gradually sorted and uploaded, into both the 'Activities and games' and the newly opened 'Starters and plenaries' section.
At the moment it seems the only way to access Tarsia files is to have the Formulator Tarsia program; at some point, I will see if it is possible to create more handy PDF versions of these puzzles.