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You couldn’t make it up, could you?

By A Maths Teacher | Published: 25/08/2015

A year or so ago a group of teachers were “discussing” the “management’s” latest initiative to improve standards (for which, read results, for which read position in league table) when one teacher made one of the most profound and insightful statements about education that have heard: They won’t improve the results by making us [teachers] […]

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‘Twas the night before results day …

By A Maths Teacher | Published: 22/08/2015

So, when I went to bed last night I was a little anxious. Why? Today is GCSE results day and as I fell asleep I wasn’t convinced that my whole class would secure that oh so important Grade C (or better.) There were (at least) 3 students of mine for whom a grade C would […]

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Golf – Its just A Level Maths

By A Maths Teacher | Published: 16/07/2015

And so the superb summer of sport rolls on. We’ve had the women’s success in the football World Cup, watched some sublime rallies at Wimbledon and thumped the Aussies to secure the First Test in the Ashes series. Now our attention swings northwards to St. Andrews, Scotland, for the Open Golf Championship. Golf, despite what […]

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Perceptions

By A Maths Teacher | Published: 21/06/2015

Quick – before you read any further – look at the picture above and describe it in no more than three words. In August this year I’ll have been married, happily married, for nineteen years. However, despite living with the same lady for so long it appears that we still see things very differently. We […]

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Why we do it

By A Maths Teacher | Published: 29/03/2015

I teach in a big school and that means some of us teach more than one class in the same year group. I have two year nine classes. I teach the very top set in the year and also the (for want of a better word) bottom set. Consequently I see year nine as a […]

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