A brilliant Tarsia activity by Gill Hillitt on Vectors. These type of activities can be used to consolidate understanding of a given topic, and foster positive group work and co-operative learning. For more ideas on how to use these types of activities (including twists!) and to download the latest version of the wonderful free software to open this resource (and create your own), just click on the web-link. If you have any comments or feedback for Gill, please share them below.
Tarsia - Vectors 1
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This is an excellent dominoes activity on vectors, students are given three vectors and asked various questions calculating the directional vectors and magnitudes. This would make an ideal starter when studying the more difficult problem solving vector questions in Core 4. Thank you for sharing.
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January 02, 2012