Visualising inequality (by hand) competition winners
To celebrate Maths Week England 2021, the AMSP collaborated with The Equality Trust to create some exciting new resources using economic inequality data and graphs.
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Enrichment for your high-achieving students
Recently one of my colleagues posted a question about courses, in addition to GCSE, that can be used to enrich and extend student knowledge, and to prepare students even more thoroughly for a Level 3 Maths qualification.
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Subject-specific CPD made simple
The effectiveness of subject PD has been highlighted by both the Teacher Development Trust’s Developing Great Teaching report and the Wellcome Trust’s follow-up Developing Great Subject Teaching, so it only makes sense to make this available for staff wherever possible.
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Competing LIVE for dragons
The AMSP East of England regional team hosted a series of live online sessions as part of Maths Week England. Year 10 students from schools around and beyond the East of England region competed against each other in teams of four, working on devices of their choice, to solve problems using various maths and puzzling skills.
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A deep thought puzzle
One number is removed from the set of consecutive integers from 1 to n. The average of the remaining numbers is 40. Which integer was removed?
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An introduction to A level for Mathematics ITT students
On Friday 12 November 2021, myself, Stephen Wilkinson and David Tuhey delivered a morning session introducing A level to the Mathematics PGCE students at the University of Nottingham.
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Preparing students for Oxbridge interviews
In late September, I received a request from a teacher at St Mary’s Catholic High School, Chesterfield, to run a professional development event for teachers in her school on “helping students with Oxbridge interview prep, including what universities are looking for during interviews.”
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Lincolnshire maths support: cracking on no matter what
As an Area Coordinator for the AMSP East Midlands regional team, my job is to support you, your school and your students throughout the academic year, and particularly during this current very unusual time in schooling.
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Enriching the curriculum
As we get used to being back in the classroom and getting students used to working in class again, the next stage of recovery is to get back into all those wonderful things that we did before March 2020.
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