Curriculum for Wales: Maths AOLE

This post summarises some of my thoughts, plans and actions undertaken with regards to the implementation of the Maths AOLE … More

Bad Examples

Recently I have been thinking how best to model examples to my classes. What should students be doing when I … More

Here are some tasks I have been using with my Year 7 class which bring together some of the recent … More

A new curriculum dawns for Wales. The Welsh Government has called our current curriculum “prescriptive, narrow and outdated”. As a … More

“I never saw the point of graphs before you taught me, now I use them all the time” This lovely … More

This is a guide for parents who want some ideas of mathematical activities that you can try with your children. … More

The say that chess is a sea where a gnat may drink from and an elephant may bathe in. In … More

Volume of a revolution is a topic generally taught to Year 13 students as part of their Maths or Further … More

Yesterday, ResearchEd came to Wales. For the first time. It was hosted by Cardiff High School, the school at which … More

I have never been particularly happy about the way I teach factorising non-monic quadratics (quadratics where the coefficient of x2 … More