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I am really enjoying having a great PGCE student (@MrPullenMaths) in some of my Year 12 Further Maths lessons. (He isn’t massively active on Twitter at the moment so please follow him and welcome him!) He has recently been teaching the Poisson distribution and on Monday this week discussed using the Poisson distribution as an […]
Recently I have been covering hypothesis tests with both my Year 12 and Year 13 further maths groups and I noticed differing wordings in exam mark schemes (Edexcel S2). I’ve always taught that you cannot say “we accept ” as you can’t prove that is correct, and that you should say something like “There is […]
On Tuesday 23rd of February I am hosting the NCETM’s #mathscpdchat on the topic of “Proving: how do pupils learn to do it?”. This post is a collection of some thoughts and opinions that I have had over the last week or so…. A month or so ago I watched this fantastic video from the […]
In December last year I had a review of the MEI/Sigma Network’s game published in the IMA magazine Mathematics Today. I later published an expanded review on my blog in December. Check it out if you haven’t already. Richard started by talking about himself and saying that his first experience with computers was when he […]
Last year my predictions of grades for my A-Level were unfortunately a little off. Since then I have been thinking about what I did wrong or whether it was purely a consequence of the exams changing slightly and exam pressure…. I do think the exams were slightly harder the last time round, but I have […]
All of last year my Further Maths class were asking to do a calculated colouring (like the 10 Ticks ones) at the end of term and I always said know as I would rather they do some maths! But this year I thought I could create an A-Level colouring inspired by the lower school 10 […]
This post will be updated daily to reflect the latest posts that have been published. Anyone who is taking part in the #summerblogchallenge will have their posts listed here – as long as you use the hashtag #summerblogchallenge they will be picked up by me and @MissNorledge and indexed so everyone’s posts can be easily found. My […]
I’m not sure why (someone probably asked me at school) but yesterday I started thinking about what I think leads to a good ethos in an A Level class and what I strive to achieve with my classes. My guiding principle with A Level groups is equality – I don’t want to be seen as […]
As I teach Further Maths I haven’t really considered how I would teach partial fractions, and normally just do them in my head without writing down any workings. However, I have recently started providing some last minute tuition and one of the things they wanted explaining was partial fractions. To be honest I have forgotten […]
I recently read Manan’s post and learnt that in the States April is Mathematics Awareness Month. Manan had written about his mathematical journey so I thought I would do the same. I remember always liking maths and number stuff, but apparently for the first couple of years at primary school I wasn’t seen as being good at it […]