Keith Burnett
I live, teach Maths, and bake bread in
Birmingham, UK. Contact me at ping.keith@gmail.com
I've worked for 30+ years in post-compulsory and adult education. I
have experience in staff development, teacher training and curriculum
design in addition to teaching maths at a variety of levels. I have
written course materials working with an editor and a multimedia team.
I'm currently working as a classroom assistant - you get a different
view of the classroom sitting with the students!
GCSE Maths materials [pdf]
- Angle facts: place mat
- A3 format pdf file with most of the angle facts needed for the GCSE
Foundation syllabus on the first side and questions to try on the second
side. I'm thinking of a pairs activity with one student reading each
question and the other searching through the facts. Numerical answers
provided at the end in a mixed order to allow self-checking.
- Probability Rules
and Tools
- GCSE Foundation maths notes on probability. Includes probability
formula, scale and vocabulary, OR rule, AND rule, possibility space
diagrams, tree diagrams and two way tables. A few pages on set notation
and Venn diagrams. For students who like reading and for me to clarify
my Probability story so I can write a problem set.
- 200 pages of GCSE Maths questions
- In case they come in useful. Mostly Foundation tier and written to
the English national curriculum. Many don't have answers or solutions.
My solutions are handwritten and it would take ages to type and you have
your own approach to explaining topics anyway.
- Number topic guide
- Explains the vocabulary and methods (both visual and symbolic) used
in GCSE foundation tier maths. I've tried to make the layout as clear as
possible for students with moderate dyslexia. Seems to work better for
everyone.
- Maths place mats
- These are designed to be printed at A3. They work greyscale but look
more engaging in colour. Each place mat has 16 questions. Some are one
topic and some are mixed.
- Probability Words
- Two sides with minimal vocabulary for foundation probability.
The words students will see in revision guides and on videos.
Other stuff
- Vi selected commands (A4)
-
- I wrote this one side summary as a learning exercise.
The approach is based on Greg
Tarsa's vi reference card as posted to
comp.editors in
1990.
Or just work through the original
tutorial
and Ex/Vi Reference Card.
- Autumn 2023 planner (A4)
- September to December 2023. For when you pick an academic year
diary off the shelf in the discount stationery shop, take it home and
find it was a 2024 calendar year diary put in the wrong pile. The odt file can be customised with term
dates &c.
- Installing OpenBSD on a laptop
- A step by step guide to installing OpenBSD on a BIOS laptop. With
copious links back to the OpenBSD FAQ and various man pages.
- GNU Nano quick reference [pdf]
- A one side guide to some of the extended commands in the
nano editor. I used
the help mode commands (the ones at the bottom of the screen) for years
before I discovered ^G and the man pages. The
official
short cut guide covers similar material. Nano gets the job
done for
many people.
- 52:48 [pdf]
- A pictorial representation of a strangely topical ratio. Slide 1 is
a blocked arrangement and slide 2 shows a random placement of the two
colours. Slide 3 explains how the random placement was generated,
(it is hard pick colours at random yourself - we tend to avoid 'clumps'
or 'runs' too much when trying to choose randomly).
Useful links
- NinjaWords dictionary
- Fast, no ads, short definitions often with example usage and
sometimes a list of synonyms.
- Graph
plotter
-
- Nice algebra entry. Good for demonstrating effect of changes in
coefficients.
- Marginalia Search
- A search engine aimed at the 'small Web' of personal Web sites. Not
the usual subjects. Not for routine factual searches.
- Hakai Magazine
- Something to read about the world that isn't on the front page of
the newspapers or on social media.
- explainshell
- Find out about that command you just copied from StackExchange
before you run it!
Last modified 2023-09-22. Much nicer autumn weather today.