Free Mathematics Activity Downloads Archive

These activities involve the use of the spreadsheet to carry out mathematical investigations.

The activities are suitable for anyone in secondary mathematics education, particularly those in the age range 11 - 16+.

The mathematics activity downloads listed here are my older acitivities. I only display the most recent three mathematics activities on the main free activities page.

Each activity has two files which can be downloaded. The first file, in the form of a pdf,contains the instructions and solutions.

The second file is in two forms, choose either one, depending on your operating system and spreadsheet application program. The first type is a prepared MS Excel® spreadsheet and the second type is in CSV format. The instructions refer to either format. It can be given to a class to work through, although help should always be available for those who find following instructions difficult.

Retail Price Index

This activity can be used as part of an introduction to spreadsheets.

It also teaches relative and absolute referencing in an easy to understand way....(more)

Simple Interest Activity

The idea behind this activity is for students to be able to compare different simple interest rates given by various lenders.

They will also work out the maximum and minimum totals and their difference for several items......(more)