Category Archives: Handling Data

Its all getting quite exciting

By A Maths Teacher | Published: 02/07/2018

Russia 2018 – its turning out to be a vintage World Cup. We’ve had shocks, upset and – at the time of writing – England are still in it (with a supposedly “easy” route to the final. Half of me dares to hope, the other half fears we will be dumped out tomorrow night by […]

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Most Competitive League in Europe

By A Maths Teacher | Published: 29/05/2018

Saturday saw Aston Villa face Fulham FC in what is widely regarded as the most valuable game in world football – the winners of the Championship play off can look forward to the next season in the Premier League, a season worth circa £170 million, a sum far eclipsing the prize money of any other […]

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Financial Times – could do better

By A Maths Teacher | Published: 15/04/2018

The above tweet [link] popped up in my twitter feed this morning, and it got me thinking. Not about whether or not Dominic Raab’s claims* were valid. No, I spent quite some time trying to figure out what that “graph” (info-graphic is probably a better term) was trying to say. I just couldn’t figure it […]

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Large Data Sets – Activities

By A Maths Teacher | Published: 06/01/2018

A year ago, I wrote this blog post, introducing Large Data Sets, a new feature to be taught on the “reformed” new AS and A level specification. Back then, it was a lot of guess work as to how best to use this new element on the syllabus, and how they will be examined in […]

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A Picture Paints a Thousand Words

By A Maths Teacher | Published: 02/01/2018

I could spend hours pontificating, explaining and lecturing and still not explain the difference between a Type I error and a Type II error as simply and as effectively as the image above. A picture really can be worth a thousand words. Credit where credit is due: the image can be found in The Essential […]

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