This year, the AMSP ran its annual Further Mathematics Conferences in February and March. Unfortunately, this coincided with the beginning of the coronavirus outbreak, resulting in cancellations and difficulties attending events that did go ahead.
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Our region saw the return of the Year 10 Maths Feasts in February and March. I am always amazed at how positive and fun the atmosphere is at these maths competitions. Luckily we managed to hold nine Feasts, before Covid-19 stopped play.
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There are a number of Teacher Networks which meet regularly in our region, offering free professional development and the chance to meet other teachers.
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In the Autumn Term, Chris Savage, an Area Coordinator in the East of England, planned a day that combined A level problem-solving teaching ideas with a review of the Edexcel A level exams.
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Just before the school and college closures, twenty teachers responded to an email asking about arrangements.
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Draw a rectangle with sides that are horizontal and vertical, and which is taller than it is wide.
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There are numerous maths education, recreational maths and popular maths books written for a general audience – so much so, that no length of lockdown would be sufficient to read them all.
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Before the lockdown, Year 10 students across Lincolnshire were kept busy solving maths problems against the clock, served up at Maths Feasts hosted by schools in Scunthorpe, Grimsby and Lincoln. Unfortunately, due to the Coronavirus, we had to cancel the event scheduled in Grantham.
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This problem was so-called by the mathematician Paul Erdos because two of his friends who worked on it, George Szekers and Esther Klein, fell in love and got married!
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