The migration of Network Meetings from face-to-face to online
Since lockdown, my personal professional development has been on a steep learning curve.
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How are teachers keeping students working during the Covid-19 crisis?
Shortly after we went into lockdown, I was lucky enough to speak with some local teachers about how their schools were reacting to the new challenges. The responses and speed in which schools were adapting to what was required was nothing short of mindblowing, and demonstrates the resilience, tenacity and flexibility of our profession.
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Girls enrichment in Sussex
How quickly we change and adapt to the circumstances around us! Only a few weeks ago, a group of Year 10 girls were coming together to participate in the challenge and fun of enrichment events.
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A review of maths books
Teaching students virtually can’t be easy; nor might it be easy for some students for many different reasons – not wanting to look at screens for too long, or not having access to screens.
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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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Can your C grade A level students be taught to solve problems?
In this recent CPD at Wheatley Park School in Oxford, we did our best to persuade local teachers that they can. There were three sessions where we looked at long, medium and short term strategies.
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How far can you go with Fibonacci?
I am fascinated by the Fibonacci sequence – something to do with it being recursive and the tendency for the common ratio between terms to become the golden ratio.
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