Year 10 enrichment goes down a storm
Girls’ participation in post-16 maths is low; in 2018 the proportion of female A level Mathematics students was 39%.
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The London KS5 Network is Back!
After a year away, the London & Kent KS5 Teacher Network will return on Wednesday 3 July.
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Enthusiasm at Gateshead’s Core Maths Conference
The second round of Core Maths Conferences in the academic year came to Gateshead in January, and was well received by attending delegates.
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Students brave the snow for STEP Prep!
On 2 February, 20 students from the Newcastle area braved the snow and turned up at 9:15 on a Saturday morning for our latest Year 12/13 Problem Solving session at Gosforth Academy.
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New events launched in the Middlesbrough area
After closing the 2018 with our traditional and very popular Christmas lectures, organised by Phil Moxon at Teesside University for Year 10 students, we have started the New Year by launching new problem solving sessions for Year 12/13 students at Middlesbrough College Sixth Form.
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Encouraging Women into Mathematics
Results of boys and girls taking GCSE Mathematics are fairly even but, from that time onwards, the number of female students taking maths drops significantly.
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Manchester enrichment day a “smashing” success
Before the Christmas break, a fantastic enrichment day took place at Xaverian College, Manchester.
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Developing standard problems: locality and plausibility
Recent enrichment activities, designed to help students engage more meaningfully with the mathematics they study and promote level 3 maths, highlighted certain features in the design that appeared to generate an additional ‘premium’ in terms of student engagement and motivation.
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Esteemed mechanics expert presenting at PD day in Brighouse
Tom Roper was one of the first teachers to work with the Mechanics in Action Project, writing classroom materials, co-authoring A level mechanics textbooks and using the mechanics kit in school.
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