After a very early drive to Kettering (via Leicester) I was ready for my busiest Mathsconf yet. As well as running a workshop on Geogebra, I was representing the East Midlands West MathsHub (@EM_MathsHub), and launching a new A-Level textbook for which I am one of the editors with Tarquin Group (@TarquinGroup). Because of this […]

Tonight (11th July 2016) at 8pm we are meeting to discuss the 6th #mathsjournalclub article which is the famous article by Brown, Brown and Bibby “I Would Rather Die’: Attitudes Of 16-Year-Olds Towards Their Future Participation In Mathematics” This article is now almost 10 years old, and despite the numbers of students studying A-Level mathematics having increased since the 2002 data […]

Session 1 – An Introduction to Probability Distributions, Terry Dawson I decided to attend this session as I wouldn’t describe Statistics as one of my strengths. I use Geogebra quite a bit but I have never used the probability calculator option before. It works well on the iPad edition as you can see below, and […]

For use this week in the run up to the Edexcel Statistics 2 Exam I have made a blockbuster game featuring S2 questions. I’m not sure now who on TES I got the template from, so if you recognise it as yours please say so that I can credit you. The powerpoint can be downloaded […]

Thank you to everyone who voted in the recent #mathsjournalclub poll. The winner with 33% of the vote was the (fairly famous) article “I Would Rather Die’: Attitudes Of 16-Year-Olds Towards Their Future Participation In Mathematics” – Margaret Brown, Peter Brown and Tamara Bibby  We will chat about this on Monday 11th July t 8pm, I really hope you can join […]

So… I’m expecting to be busy with blogging in the next week or so. I will be commenting on and giving my feelings about all the specifications and specimen papers being released for the new A-Level Maths and Further Maths qualifications tomorrow (9th June 2016). I’m currently enjoying the AQA webinar and I love what […]

It’s my last lesson with my Year 13 Further Maths students this morning before their Edexcel FP2 exam. One of the things that I am going to do with them is an increased difficulty version of the June 2012 paper. This is a very similar idea to my increased difficulty M1 paper I posted a […]

As promised, here is a chance to vote on the next #mathsjournalclub article. The poll will be open until the 9th June and then we will discuss the chosen article on Monday 11th July at 8pm – this will be the last chat before the summer holiday. The choices are as follows (thanks to Rob […]

Complex loci and transformations in the complex plane are probably my least favourite topics to teach in A-Level Further Maths. It feels very negative to say that, but I don’t think I am alone! I also think it is one of the hardest topics for students to get their heads around in the further maths […]

On Friday 20th May 2016 I was lucky enough to be asked to lead a session for the University of Nottingham maths PGCE students on teaching KS5 mathematics. It was three hours long and I really enjoyed doing the session and working with a great group of PGCE students. I have embedded the presentation below, […]