Oxford masterclasses
The Mathematical Institute at the University of Oxford runs a series of masterclasses for Year 9-Year 11 students each year, with the aim to inspire and engage young people in the practice and art of maths.
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Maths Feast in Portsmouth
We were delighted to recently run our first face-to-face Maths Feast since the beginning of the pandemic at Trafalgar School in Portsmouth. It was fantastic to see so many students engaged with others and so obviously enjoying their maths.
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Core Maths Across the Curriculum
There are many reasons why the Core Maths course is such an exciting and invigorating course to teach. By centring maths within context, the Core Maths student gets to experience how maths provides a set of tools with which to understand the world; for many on this course this can be transformative and, in many cases, alters their perception of what maths is.
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AMSP Teacher Networks – reviewing the 2021 A level Mathematics papers
Although the current A level specification has been here for several years now, the fact that there has only been one typical cohort to sit an exam series means that it still feels very new.
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Face-to-face Maths Feasts return
February 2022 saw the first face-to-face Maths Feasts take place since March 2020. We had the pleasure of running one of the first Maths Feasts in the South West region this year, and it was amazing to see the students working collaboratively as a team on the different rounds within the Feast
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A spoonful of sugar
Exam season is fast approaching and, for almost everyone, these will be the first public exams they’ll take. The specifications are still quite new, with only Sample Assessment Material and four past papers available for practice.
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Raising Confidence with Higher Mathematics: Stoke-On-Trent twilights
On Wednesday 29 June 2022 and Wednesday 6 July 2022, Trentham Academy in Stoke-on-Trent will host two twilight professional development sessions on Raising Confidence with Higher Mathematics from 15:45-17:45.
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Core Maths Teacher Network
The West Midlands Core Maths Teacher Network meeting took place at the University of Birmingham on Friday 4 March 2022. After a two-year hiatus, teachers of Core Maths from across the West Midlands region were once again brought together to discuss, share and collaborate, supporting one another with classroom practice.
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Is online teaching here to stay?
My Core Maths students are just starting mocks and revision. When I asked what they wanted to revisit, one of my classes answered in unison with, “Everything we’ve done online!”
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