Most people I have spoken to aren’t terribly keen on the current A Level textbooks. I think that the current Pearson Edexcel books are particularly poor, worse than the Edexcel books that I had when I was at A Level and definitely not as good as the Bostock and Chandler textbooks that I love. I […]
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Here is the second post in my ‘FMSP Favourite Problems’ series looking at the problems selected for the Further Maths Support Programme’s favourite problem series of posters. This second problem I’m not very keen on as it just seems a bit dull. As usual I started with a small sketch, annotated with what I knew […]
Last night I read an excellent blog post by Stephen (@srcav) discussing the readiness of students for the current maths A Level. It turns out that this blog post was actually a response to another great post by Jo (@mathsjem) and I was going to comment on both posts, but then thought they would probably […]
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MEI Conference Day 1
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 […]
This is a joint blog post by me and Jasmina Lazic, my co-presenter at #mathsconf6 (see my write up of the day) on Saturday 5th March 2016. Me and Jasmina first interacted over twitter, and over time the idea of leading a workshop at a #mathsconf took root. Collaborating over email and a couple of […]
A lot of you probably know that for a while I have had the idea of organising a CPD conference aimed at KS5 mathematics. I feel that this is an area that isn’t served as well as lower Key Stages (of course MEI, FMSP do fantastic work in this area!) and with the imminent changes […]
Since visiting The De Ferrers Academy a few years ago I have thought about trying to create a video using ExplainEverything. This half term was my school’s “Take a Risk” observation window. We have one of these every year and I think it’s quite a good idea as the outcome of the observation doesn’t count formally […]
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A Sixth Form PRET Homework
One of the many jobs that I had wanted to do over the summer was to create PRET homeworks for the A-Level modules that I was going to be teaching this coming year. Along with the website design this didn’t really happen, so now I am doing them throughout the year as I go. I […]
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Parental Anxiety with Mathematics
It is well known that for some people mathematics causes great anxiety and an article from the Telegraph by Javier Espinoza (@JaviereTMG) last Tuesday (11th August) reported on research linking parental maths anxiety to lower attainment in mathematics by their children. Have a read… Aside from the fairly awful headline (ability and attainment are not necessarily […]
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FMSP Favourite Problems – Number 3
After far too long an hiatus I am continuing with my discussion posts on the 6 problems that the Further Mathematics Support Programme, FMSP (@furthermaths) have selected for their “Favourite Problems” poster series. Problem 3 is described on their poster shown below: This is actually a pretty interesting problem, with a very low threshold for […]