Category Archives: Numeracy

A Fibonacci Poem

By A Maths Teacher | Published: 28/01/2015

I stumbled across this little gem today and I love it. Fibonacci: To get the next number in the sequence Add the previous two numbers together. It is so simple, and so clever. The original (& best) poem was penned by Brian Bilston, you can find him and follow him here on twitter: @brian_bilston (In […]

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Nicky Morgan joins the club …

By A Maths Teacher | Published: 12/12/2014

In this post I told the tale of how the Chancellor, George Osborne, ducked a maths question (posed by a seven year old) live on TV. Now our Education Secretary has joined this elite gang by refusing to answer: “What is the cube root of 125?” Admittedly a little trickier than the problem that foxed […]

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They think its all over …

By A Maths Teacher | Published: 23/10/2014

My Year Nines bundled into my classroom this morning with even more excitement than normal.  I attributed this extra energy to a combination of the high winds as the remnants of Hurricane Gonzalo battered our sceptered isle and the imminent prospect of the half term holiday. But I was wrong. One of the students had […]

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It’s all kicked off …

By A Maths Teacher | Published: 18/08/2014

Spearman’s rank correlation coefficient, and other ways to use football to teach maths A new season kicked off at the weekend and I’ve been thinking of ways to “use” the Premier League in my teaching. This year I shall be teaching Statistics 1 A & AS level module which (for my board, OCR) includes using […]

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George Osborne – What a turnip

By A Maths Teacher | Published: 03/07/2014

George Osborne – The Chancellor -probably the second most powerful politician in the country. And a prize turnip, too. He was asked, by a seven year old boy: What’s seven times eight Our intrepid leader refused to answer, replying: I’ve made it a rule in life not to answer a whole load of maths questions […]

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