Digital Memories
I’m lucky enough to have a sparky class of Year 10 students. At the school where I work we recognise that GCSE mathematics on its own is not enough to prepare them for the Higher Level Mathematics at...
Adding life to old problems!
I recently went to an International School in Geneva to work with their mathematics department for a day as part of their adoption of a 'bring your own device' scheme. It is always a pleasure to do such...
Mathematics Scrapbooks
'Thinking about what we keep and how we keep it' This is an old blog post I wrote last year somewhere else. It has come back to my mind again because I recently read an article in the MT journal from...
Wrong, right, misleading?
This post is a great example of the type of distraction that crosses my path all too often these days. My life was so much simpler before twitter and facebook. This one started when I picked up this article...
Mathagogy, one question lessons and making cones
This is a blog post to support my video entry to the mathagogy project from @pepsmccrea. The project is a fabulous idea and I can hardly wait to see some of the video entries! Anyway, I have made my video ...
The homework debate!
The following blog post is a quick response the question above that has been posed by the #globalmath group on twitter who are having a debate on this topic this evening based on some responses to this Questionnaire....
Using Games in Mathematics
Generally students enjoy playing games (who doesn't). Whilst we can find many attractive and fun games online I'm often disappointed with the quality of the questions. If it's fun, but the students don't...
Visual Sequences
This has come up a couple of times recently and seeing a twitter discussion on 'brilliant activities using manipulatives' I decided to write this down quickly. This is a beautiful and simple activity...
Craig Barton Recommends Teachmathematics
It's always nice to know that other mathematics teachers appreciate the site so it was a proud moment for the site to get a glowing testimony from Craig Barton AKA MrBartonmaths and the main man behind...
Five great ideas for visualising number!
The abstraction of numbers is a fascinating topic for debate and discussion and the root of much confusion in secondary school mathematics students, not to mention many of the worlds adults! As teachers,...