Rich Starting Points for A Level Mathematics

I recently received some information about a new web site http://www.risps.net : (RiSPs = Rich Starting Points - for A Level Mathematics).

This site, run by Jonny Griffiths of Paston College, provides a wide range of mini investigative problems to start of some interesting work in mathematics.

These can be used as start of lesson warm up excercises or as end of lesson extended homework tasks.

The problems provide a very useful way of getting students to use and reinforce the mathematics they develop at A level standard, but without the tasks being too formal or difficult to start.

For example :

Risp 8. Arithmetic Simultaneous Equations

Pick six consecutive terms from an arithmetic sequence,

and place them in order into the spaces below.

__ x + __ y = __

__ x + __ y = __

Now solve this pair of simultaneous equations.

what do you discover ?