There was a time when the best thing I’d find in the pockets of a coat or jacket would be a fiver (result!) or a load of shrapnel – I’ve found all sorts of things after nutty nights out I can tell you! But, nowadays it seems that every pocket [...]
Welcome to this month’s edition of the Aperiodical Carnival of Mathematics! The Carnival is a monthly roundup of exciting mathematical blog posts. Last month, it was hosted by Kartik at Comfortably Numbered and this month, it is my honour to host it here. But first, I thought I’d start with [...]
I'm gonna start with an update ... and apologies for the inevitable way that this will sound self-congratulatory but I wanted to say thank you to everyone that sent me luck and wishes in sitting the new GCSE ... if you haven't heard I got a 9! Just in case [...]
Here you go … Monthly Maths - August 2017 v2 calendar. The original post containing the sheet for July 2017 can be found here and the Solutions (for July 2017) are available here – > Monthly Maths - July 2017 - SOLUTIONS
Just a quickie ... I'm working through my emails/to do list and so I'm going to apologise in advance because you may find some posts published over the next few days/weeks that seem quite random as I tick things of that bloomin' list! Anyway ... if you use Pearson/Edexcel and your [...]
This is being written as a separate post (a sort of sister post to this one) because this isn’t about me. OK … its partly about me … but mainly about an amazing group of year 8 students! Today proved that to me that what we do as classroom teachers [...]
Here you go … Monthly Maths - July 2017 calendar. The original post containing the sheet for June 2017 can be found here and the Solutions (for June 2017) are available here – > Monthly Maths - June 2017 - SOLUTIONS
This one is better than falling asleep last week on the train because it all happened in public ... I swear I am a complete and utter knob at times! This morning I was at one of the Pearson collaborative network meetings and thought: "ooh I like that NAVY LINEN dress" [...]
Back in January I wrote (in this post-> here ) about how comparability across tiers was going to be ensured by the exam boards and Ofqual. I included some analysis about the percentage of marks available on the “crossover” topics for Edexcel, AQA and OCR; I also went off on [...]
At about 8:30 this evening my conversation on the phone with my hubbie went a little like this: Me: Hiya. I'm on the last leg of my train journey - should get in to Brum just after 9. Good day? Him: Yep. You? (he's not a phone person!) Me: Yeah. [...]
