Higher Maths

[Auntlouisa]

DD has started this course. They're just being sent worksheets. She's struggling, and can't find anything helpful online. Can anyone recommend a good textbook that covers the Higher curriculum.? I think she needs something more thorough than a revision book like Bright Red, as she's pretty much having to teach herself.

DD who is not a natural mathematician found the Heriott Watt scholar books good for Higher.I think they do online as well. Youtube videos can be good too for specific things.

There are some decent YouTube videos.

I was having a browse and a few schools have got great resources, and what looks like all the coursework on their websites.

What is communication like with the school?

Which topic is she doing?

These are great
www.hsn.uk.net/higher-maths/notes

The content hasn’t really changed so it’s ok to use the old Higher notes. This website is also excellent for lots of question practice. There are also helpful mind maps.

www.highermathematics.co.uk/higher-maths-whole-course/

She's struggling with trigonometry at the moment (which means nothing to me), but generally finds maths a bit difficult. There seems to be some minimal contact with teachers, but not really explanations. Thank you for the tips.

@Auntlouisa if you send on messages a photo of what she’s been given, I’ll help (I’m a Maths teacher and teach Higher)

Thank you. I'll try to do that.

It's gradients. I think she could do with the kind of book which goes through everything logically. I may order the Scholar books, though as far as I'm aware the school isn't part of the Scholar online learning thing, so she won't have access to that.

Have a look at the HSN notes. They’re easy to follow and give lots of worked examples. Those questions you’ve put up are quite challenging. If you look at the Straight line topic and then section 3, it tells you how to calculate an angle between a straight line and the x axis if you know the gradient. The angle between the two lines should just be the difference between the angles of each line.

Some really good tips here - thank you.

@Auntlouisa I feel for her trying to get to grips with it in lockdown! Just PM me if she has any other questions. Happy to help.

Milburn Academy in Inverness has a brilliant website with loads on Higher Maths - or they used to 2 years ago.

Ds has just started the straight line topic too, but the teacher sent him links to 5 or 6 youtube videos to help. Let me see if I can find them. He works much better visually /listening rather that books.

This is what ds was given along with some tasks/worksheets to complete:

Here are a selection of YouTubevideos (from MrYoungsMaths) we have found which cover key content from the above tasks. Please ignore instructions at the end of videos to complete exercises!!

(Gradients) (Perpendicular Gradients) (y-b=m(x-a)/ perpendicular line equation) (Collinearity) (Perpendicular Line Equation)

Videos can also be found online at:
www.maths180.com/

I havent watched them so dont know how good/bad they are but he managed to complete the worksheets.

Milburn Academy looks good.

I think that learning from a textbooks is the easiest method, but schools don't use textbooks any more.

There are a few textbooks. We use this one
www.hoddergibson.co.uk/subjects/mathematics/products/higher/higher-mathematics-second-edition

The Teejay one also looks good

TeeJay Higher Maths www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1907789669/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_i_k1MYEbPJVSPXP?tag=mumsnetforu03-21

Agree that having a textbook is helpful.

Search larbert high school flipped learning in google. You’ll be directed to lots of videos for N5 and H maths. They work through the straight line topic in full detail.

First picture is teejay, second How to pass, 3rd is Brightred

For maths we prefer teejay. Prefer brightred for science.

My DC tutor uses this book, it's very well laid out and easy to follow.

www.bookdepository.com/Higher-Mathematics-Second-Edition-Bob-Barclay/9781510457737