Numeracy Across the Curriculum

It’s the start of another new half term tomorrow and having just arrived back from Hong Kong and China I’m not quite sure what time of the day it is but am raring to go feeling chilled out and very relaxed. I’ve come to the conclusion that my “to-do” list will always be “chocker-block” and … Read more

Keeping time …

Just a thought … yesterday was the first of our Saturday school sessions. As the first one, my plan was to cover 3 topics where I did a worked example on the board with them and then they got to work on similar problems themselves – nothing too exciting but it’s a way of setting … Read more

The Society of Young Mathematicians

If you’re looking for a way to offer some extra-curricular enrichment for those students already interested in Maths – or even show other students exactly what is possible in the field of Mathematics – have you thought about promoting the Society of Young Mathematicians (SYMS) ? How about putting a bit in your next school … Read more

Bread and Butter 9-1

With our year 9 and 10 this year we are following the Edexcel 2 and 3 year schemes work (it seemed as good a place as any and I know the work that has gone into checking/double checking & triple checking it by the maths team – the format is also something we are used … Read more

Sunday morning quickie

Not “that” kind of quickie. Mucky minds people! This is a quick blog post as it doesn’t really fit into any of the other three posts that I currently have word documents open for … expect a deluge later today. I’ve also had a nightmare with a memory stick that means I’ve lost a load of … Read more

FFT Aspire

So it appears that my recent post about not grading topics has made a few people sit up and listen. Lots of people mentioned it to me yesterday but it was usually quickly followed up with “but how do we predict outcomes? What do we tell parents/SLT/students?” I don’t have all the answers but some … Read more

More maths teachers …

… than you can shake a stick at! So another #mathsconf5 has been and gone and my twitter line is full of people buzzing from the weekend. As I brushed my teeth on Friday afternoon before leaving to catch my train I had a vision of a Star Trek convention and it felt all a … Read more

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