Over the summer holidays I like my prospective Year 12 Further Mathematicians to look at some maths over the holiday (I do emphasise the importance of having a proper holiday too!). For the last couple of years I have given them these 3 questions (which I have found from various places over the years) to […]
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Maths Journal Club
At the weekend I suggested the idea of a Twitter Maths Journal Club. MY intention is for this to run along similar lines to the fantastic Twitter Maths Book club (@MathsBookClub) (blog is here). I have set up a twitter account specifically for this, so please follow @mathjournalclub to stay up to date. The plan is as […]
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Another Fantastic Day -#mathsconf4
After having to set my alarm for 04:30 in the morning to make the train I needed to get into London and enduring an annoying rail replacement bus I’m glad to say that #mathsconf4 was fantastic; as the previous ones have been! Before I describe in a bit more detail I want to mention the […]
Today I led the East Midlands West Mathshub Curriculum Development meeting. I had been asked to feedback about the fantastic presentation Jo Morgan (@mathsjem) gave at the last National Mathematics Teachers Conference (mathsconf). Her original presentation is discussed , and her subsequent posts are definitely worth a read. My presentation is (hopefully) embedded below, and […]
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MathsHUBS and Steel Cables
I’ve been pretty slow writing about this but on Wednesday 11th March Mathshubs East Midlands West held this half term’s Secondary Curriculum Development Meeting. Aswell as being a chance to have a few cakes (I particularly like the granola bars topped with strawberry jam and seeds) Matilde Warden (@jordanvorderman), the maths lead for the East […]
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Maths Carnival 120
The great site The Aperiodical maintain a monthly blog carnival, that is hosted,in turn, by other blog writers. This month the Carnival of Mathematics has been curated by Manan Shah over at the site Math Misery. I am privileged to have had two posts of mine included in this edition. The first concerns approximations to and is available here, the […]
This week I posted the following picture on Twitter: A few people retweeted, favourited and commented how good they were for questions to stretch A Level students so I thought I would write a bit more here. They were first published in 1982 and are still available from Amazon here and here. I think I […]
So, before I had even read through the Government’s documents outlining the proposed changes to the A Level Mathematics and Further Mathematics courses I came across an excellent post by @srcav discussing the changes – I really need to learn to stay more up to date. The Department for Education and Ofqual are currently in […]
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Christmas Calculated Colouring 2023
As always apologies that this is later than I had originally planned. A combination of school work and feeling poorly meant I didn’t get it up on Monday as I had hoped. Sorry. The keen eyed amongst you will probably spot that I have recycled an image I originally used in a further maths calculated […]
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Exams 2023 Resources
I will be adding to this post as and when I post resources so please keep checking back. The plan is for there to be one set (at least – If I have a chance I may do more) of practice papers for AQA A-Level Maths, AQA A-Level Further Maths and AQA Level 2 Further […]