Local and regional teacher network meetings
Online teacher network meetings turned out to be very popular during the period of lockdown in the spring and summer, and continue to attract teachers now that we are back in school.
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Teaching advanced maths to EAL Learners
There is a great deal of research around teaching younger students with English as an Additional Language (EAL) needs, but very little on the effects of language demands with the study of advanced maths.
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Regular problem-solving classes in the new year
For the past three or four years, the AMSP in the East Midlands has run a course for Year 12 students who are preparing for MAT and TMUA in the autumn or who are considering taking STEP the following summer.
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Poor numerical literacy linked to greater susceptibility to COVID-19 fake news
Researchers at Cambridge University have investigated factors which predict the susceptibility of people from five different countries (UK, USA, Ireland, Mexico, and Spain) to believe in COVID-19 misinformation.
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Sir Roger Penrose
The wonderful English mathematician Sir Roger Penrose recently jointly won the Nobel Prize for Physics (2020) for his work on Black Holes, proving that Black Holes are a prediction of the theory of General Relativity.
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Teacher network meetings
Teacher Networks are funded by the AMSP to allow teachers of GCSE, A Level and Core Maths to meet, collaborate and engage in professional development.
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COVID-19 statistics
No maths teacher can have lived through the last six months without being struck by the elevation of statistical analysis to the forefront of the national consciousness – publicly affecting our leader’s decisions, and intimately affecting our day-to-day lives.
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Kent and Medway Maths Conference 2020
I am delighted to announce that the Kent and Medway Maths Conference 2020, postponed from July 2020, has now been rescheduled as an online event that started on Monday 9 November 2020.
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Book review: The Art of the Infinite
he Art of the Infinite by Robert Kaplan and Ellen Kaplan is one of the most accessible books on maths that I have had the pleasure of reading.
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