Category Archives: Numeracy

Come the revolution!

By A Maths Teacher | Published: 04/02/2018

Anyone walking past my classroom of late might have come to the conclusion that I was fomenting a revolution, hearing me inciting my students to Bring down the power! The Head can sleep easy in his bed – I am not encouraging the students to rise up, burn their books and storm the staff room. […]

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Adding and Subtracting Fractions

By A Maths Teacher | Published: 14/12/2017

Over on Twitter, @missradders has sparked a really interesting discussion on subtracting fractions by offering the above method to subtract two fractions.  (see the Twitter thread here) I must admit, it is a method new to me and, from reading the replies to her tweet, it was unfamiliar to many other teachers, to. But is […]

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By A Maths Teacher | Published: 20/11/2016

… a tale of calculators then and now   Back in my day at school, calculators in the classroom were in their infancy – I was in the last year that were not allowed calculators in their O Level maths exam, although we did use them in A Level Maths. We thought they were pretty […]

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Quite Interesting

By A Maths Teacher | Published: 01/04/2016

Twitter is a wonderful thing. I woke up this morning, fired up my PC, checked my twitter stream and was instantly enlightened. A tweet from @Teach Further Maths informed me that the number 40, when written as forty, is the only number that is spelled in alphabetical order, and that “one” is the only number […]

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Back in my prime

By A Maths Teacher | Published: 28/03/2016

Today is my birthday and, for the first time in four years, my age is a prime number. After this year, it will be another six years before I am “prime” again. Hold old am I? (And just a little context, in case you don’t know me, I am not (alas!) a very young teacher, […]

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