I first heard of Mary Somerville When I visited my sister who was studying at Somerville College in Oxford – the formerly girls college named after Mary Somerville. Mary Somerville was a Scottish mathematician and communicator of science born on the 26th December 1780 – 238 years ago! Like most females of the time she […]
Merry Christmas to everyone reading this! I hope you have had a fantastic day whatever you have been doing. In an effort to kick-start myself into blogging more I am aiming to post a blog post for each of the 12 days of Christmas. These posts will probably be quite short, some may be fairly […]
I’m late posting it here (sorry) but I know I have already shared it with some people directly. The Calculated Colouring for 2018 is now here – maybe you could do it on Christmas morning? Same format as before – all questions should be suitable for current Year 12 students, some sample questions are below […]
I really should have shared this before the beginning of Advent! You have probably realised that I have been struggling to post on here – a New Years resolution for next year is to post more. For my Year 13s I have made an “integration a day Advent Calendar”. Nothing fancy, just 24 integrals to […]
It’s MEI Conference time of year again! Sadly as a Maths Hub Level 3 lead I am going to be unable to attend most sessions on Friday and I can’t make Saturday due to family commitments so I need to make the most of today! Session A: Differential Equations in A-Level FM (Sharon Tripconey) The […]
We are almost one year in to the teaching of the new A-Levels in Mathematics and Further Mathematics. The first overarching theme of the new A-Level (as identified in the subject content guidance from the DfE) is “Mathematical Argument, language and proof” as shown below. There is a greater focus on this than there used […]
Back in 2015 I posted about Anscombe’s Quartet here. I have finally gotten round to doing something that I had planned to do back then. I have written a small Geogebra applet that allows students to visualise the four datasets that comprise Anscombe’s Quartet and change the number of decimal places displayed. The applet is […]
Happy Christmas everyone!! I hope you have all had a fantastic day 😉 Inspired by James Tanton’s (@jamestanton) “Personal Polynomial” I have a small Christmas message encoded in the polynomial below: The file available here contains the definition of the polynomial which would certainly be helpful.
I know this will be too late for some people to use – sorry I am struggling to stay on top of things at the moment. Here is this year’s Christmas calculated colouring. It’s slightly easier than the previous one with less regions so that it should be able to be completed in a single […]
Recently the Mathematical Association (MA) have proposed the merger of the MA, the Association of Teachers of Mathematics (ATM), the Association of Mathematics Education Teachers (AMET), the National Association of Mathematics Advisors (NAMA) and the National Association for Numeracy and Mathematics in Colleges (NANAMIC). The MA is inviting comments on this here. Please, please make […]