Information for Teachers

How to use the resource

Links has not been written to replace your textbook. As noted above, your texts need not be discarded when you buy Links.

Like all resources, you should still decide which sections to use and when:

The Shorter Applications within each Area of Interaction could be used to support your work in class, homework, assignments or revision
The Topics with Guiding Questions could be the focus for a thematic topic, making interdisciplinary links with other subjects. As with the Shorter Applications, parts of these topics could be used for class, home, assignment or revision work
Skills check ups can be used for homework, revision or as the need arises in class

Links is not intended as an individualised workbook. With most classes and pupils, the teacher will still need to decide what, when and how. Some sections may need to be introduced and necessary skills taught first.

Quantity of Work

There is enough work in each Links book for at least, on average, one hour per week. This could be done partly in class, at home or in blocks of time. If all of the extension and further activities are done there would be much more than an hour a week. In fact you could use Links as the basis of your whole course and add in more skills teaching from conventional texts as required.

Mathematical Content

The content of Links 1, 2 and 3 will cover the majority of mathematical content for the first three years of the MYP curriculum. Links 4 and 5 will cover the material for last two years.

"Selling" the Resource to your administrators and parents

If it is funded from your departmental budget, the unit cost can be partly written off against money spent on photocopying for homework, assignments and worksheets.

Students could buy it as part of their stationery as it is theirs to keep. Essentially it becomes a portfolio of student work that meets many of the requirements of the Areas of Interaction. It will be helpful for parents to see these integrated into Mathematics.

It is an economical add-on to conventional mathematics texts which will remain perfectly adequate for teaching the core mathematical content.

Photocopying

Please do not photocopy these resources.

These resources have been written in response to a perceived need for material which addresses the International Baccalaureate Middle Years Programme (IBMYP) for mathematics. They provide support to MYP mathematics teachers who do not have the time and energy to write material that meets the requirements of the MYP Areas of Interaction.

If these resources provide you and your students with worthwhile activities then please buy it rather than photocopy it.