Students learn at GCSE, or very early on in A level, that there are three main ways of writing a quadratic expression. Each way has its own advantages, particularly in terms of identifying features of quadratic graphs.
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The AMSP has been running enrichment events based on the topic of the environment and the impacts of climate change, most recently at Ferryhill Business and Enterprise College where we delivered a full day of sessions across the KS3 and KS4 range.
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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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This activity is taken from a project that I did for Durham County Council: Teaching Maths and Reasoning through Play.
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It’s an exciting year for Higher Level Problem Solving (HLPS) in the North East region. HLPS is our catch-all term for all the work that we do across the North East region with sixth form students who wish to access the challenge of problem solving outside of their standard A level curriculum.
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In the May 2021 North East regional newsletter, we asked ‘What is the probability of winning at Rock, Paper, Scissors?’ and we asked this because we believe it forms the basis for an interesting discussion.
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In May, we were able to deliver an enrichment event face-to-face again. Biddick Academy in Sunderland invited us in to provide some enrichment sessions for their students for National Numeracy Day.
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This term, we’re looking forward to working with both the Great North Maths Hub and the Archimedes NE Maths Hub.
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In his book The Signal and the Noise, Nate Silver explains the difference between good and bad statistical modelling. Described by the New York Times as one of the most momentous books of the decade, when published in 2012, it has now been updated for the 2020 pandemic and the most recent US presidential elections.
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