Presenter:
Douglas Butler Autograph’s classroom-friendly operation, coupled with fascinating resources on the web, can bring the more advanced mathematics curriculum to life. The course will demonstrate Douglas’ unique style of lesson plans, starting with Calculus topics from Mathematical Methods: introducing differentiation and integration, and ‘e’, and establishing why the integral of 1/x is lnx. Topics from the Specialist Mathematics course will be included, for example 3D vectors, volumes of revolution and differential equations.
Teaching statistics offers rich opportunities to bring real data into the classroom, and the judicious use of dynamic software and Excel can help to make sense of some of the trickier concepts. More advanced work from the Mathematical Methods and Specialist Mathematics courses will include the Binomial and normal distributions, both from a theoretical point of view and as means to test real data.
All delegates will be presented with a complimentary copy of Autograph 3.3.10
What to bring:Each delegate should bring a laptop (MAC or PC) and mouse. Electrical power sockets will be provided.
| Rating | Comment |
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  | Excellent and relevant resources. Well paced instructions. Fascinating stuff Douglas! |
| Fine piece of software - especially enjoyed the section on volumes of solids of revolution. Excellent resources. |
| Worth the money and excellent tips to help deliver mathematics with ICT. |
| Very relevant to content tought at school. A useful PD |
  | Lecture notes are much appreciated! |
| Very well presented, informative, to the point, and technical. |
| I learned some new skills but have to go home and practice more. |
| Started slow. Really appreciated the work within autograph. |
| I really enjoyed the work on calculus but struggled with the statistics. Not enough time was given to statistics. |
| Great info - a lottel too fast but still good. |
| Wonderful stuff and excellent resources. |
| WOuld be good to have some content on paper to assist with delivery on the day. Demonstration of applications good- there are so many to try to remember, grateful for website access and resources. |
| Went way too fast, couldnt keep up. |
| Need some printed instructions for some activities as sometimes a bit too fast. |
| Excellent course. Lots of information very useful for the classroom. |
| Content was new to me. Went a bit fast sometimes - hard to keep up. |
| I will need to work on my skills to get up to speed. Very interesting. More instructions needed. |
| Workshop very fast but excellent info. |
| Too much infomration too fast. Would have liked more time on statistics, especially univariate data |
| Was a bit too fast. |
| It was difficult to follow the instructions and keep up with the hands on activities. I often missed steps making it difficult to proceed. It will be good to have a small hand-out of initial process so that everyone knows how to get started. |
| Interesting content but he demonstrates too quickly. He needs to write or type the instructions for us to follow slowly. Helpful when individual help asked for. |
| It was an excellent presentation, but needed more time to get familiar witht he the program. |
| A little too much info for one day. The stats content could be simplified for our curriculum. Otherwise brilliant presentation. |
| Everything I've learned I will be able to use in the classroom and share with my colleagues. |
