ICT support

BECTA - This is the site of the British Educational Communications and Technology Agency.
Find the latest information supporting the use of ICT in education.

Visit the National Grid for Learning home page at NGfL You may prefer to go straight to the Virtual Teacher Centre but you will need to register before entering the site.
Registration is free and takes only a few minutes to do.

Dynamic Geometry - Dynamic geometry packages are very useful for exploring the geometrical topics in Key Maths especially in Year 9 and above. For information about Cabri II and Geometer's Sketchpad look at the Math Forum pages.

Graphics Calculators - Key Maths encourages the use of Graphics Calculators and support pages and activities can be found in the Teacher Files. For the latest information about graphics calculators visit the Texas or Casio sites.

Autograph
This powerful software package does so much more than draw graphs.
Find the latest information at the Autograph home page

Omnigraph
This is a popular graphing package that enables you to do graph plotting, transformation geometry and trig. functions. Visit the Omnigraph site for the latest information.

Derive
Derive is a very powerful program with a multitude of functions, including the ability to draw 3D plots such as the one in the chapter opener for Key Maths Year 9 Book 3 Chapter 14.

Other sources of information on software for maths
For details of other software packages for mathematics not on this list, try the Oundle School list of software for mathematics.