Dr Colin's Maths

Welcome to Dr Colin's Maths, a website to accompany the maths we do in school exams. My other website Colinsmaths contains fun topics that we don't do at school: but here the focus is on NZ NCEA, International Baccalaureate, English A Level - and on tutoring and teaching to support students for success.

Specific exam boards and interests are linked through the menu, but to get us started here are some great resources. (And if you'd like to get some tutoring, please click on Tutoring.)

Online Resources

School Maths

Dr Frost - great resources for learning, practising, learning, practising, learning ... 

Mr Flynn (for IB) - an excellent collection of material for International Baccalaureate - and of course for general learning. 

Snedmaths - material on the Algebra and Calculus side of the NZ NCEA Curriculum, from Jamie Sneddon.

LizSneddon - companion site to Snedmaths by Liz Sneddon, for those lovely subjects Statistics and Probability.

Mr Bowman's Maths - useful resources for NZ NCEA Levels 1-3

NZ Maths and Stats - not sure who this is, but it's great resources including various online textbooks

NZ Maths Year 11 - a local collection of teaching material, linked here to bring useful material all together

NZ Maths Year 12 - a local collection of teaching material, linked here to bring useful material all together

Math Aids (Graph Paper) - a US site with lots of material for work-sheets etc - but particularly useful if you need specialist graph paper in a hurry

Geogebra - the very best online tool ever, for doing geometry, calculus and everything else

Casio fx-9860Gii calculator instructions - Casio calulator instructions online

Fun maths but with serious intent - still very useful for learning

Maths with bad drawings - actually not bad at all, and very enyoyable

Maths is Fun - exactly what it says

Colinsmaths - well, it deserves a mention

ChatGPT sub-site of Colinsmaths - a site that ChatGPT made for me without even being asked, containing all the polyhedra I can think of or would ever want.

Serious stuff for enriching your journey with maths 

Nrich Maths - fantastic resources from Cambridge University

Oxford University Mathematical Institute - simply the best

Competitions including the world-class Maths Olympiad

UK Maths Trust - loads of stuff including the Olympiad and related competitions (Kangaroo, Senior Maths Challenge, etc)

Australian Maths Trust - Loads of stuff including the Australian Olympiad competition

NZ Maths Olympiad - Home of the NZ Olympiad competition

Canadian Mathematical Society - Home of the Canadian Olympiad, and also of all things maths in Canada

Official sites and resources

NZQA Official site for curriculum and past papers - what it says, but be warned it's not easy to navigate

New Zealand Mathematical Society - exactly what it says

New Zealand Association of Maths Teachers - again

New Zealand Mathematics For A Lifetime - a small group in the Waikato helping with access to maths education