Mathsplosion
In February 2020, we held Mathsplosion@Durham across two days. Eight schools attended on each day, with each school bringing ten students.
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Are you psychic? I am, and I can prove it!
Now, I hopefully have your attention. The point of this article is to try and consider how we can motivate students and promote understanding of mechanics and statistics by the use of practical and modelling situations.
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Free enrichment event ‘Maths without limits’ is back by popular demand!
Maths without limits is a series of enrichment events for Key Stage 4 girls in Manchester.
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“Please, Miss, I can’t do it!”
Have you noticed how some pupils give up on maths before they’ve even started? How it’s almost okay to say the sweeping statement, “I’m no good at maths”, sometimes with a strange sense of pride?
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Inspiring tomorrow’s female mathematicians
Lancaster University Management School welcomed 136 pupils and 24 teachers from 14 schools and colleges in the North West on Thursday 9 January 2020 for the eighth annual Florence Nightingale Day.
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Core Maths – engaging students early
I recently visited Hillside High School in Bootle, Merseyside to promote A level Mathematics and Further Mathematics to Year 11 students. This was my second visit, and a Year 10 student later said to his teacher, “Hey, that’s the second time he’s been in to work with the top sets. Why don’t we get any visits?”.
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Raising Confidence with Problem Solving in the GCSE classroom PD event
I love the definition of problem solving given by Guy Claxton, ‘knowing what to do when you don’t know what to do’. It says it all.
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Where can maths take your students?
As maths teachers, we would love as many students as possible to study maths post-16, and we are undoubtedly more aware than most of the advantages that continuing to study maths would give students.
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Why Core Maths matters
Have you ever been asked by a student, “What am I doing this for?” or, “When am I ever going to use this in real life?”
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