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A Safe Bet?

By A Maths Teacher | Published: 07/08/2015

A few days ago good pal of mine got in touch with me. I could sense his excitement, he knew he was in the money. William Hill are offering a prize of £50 million, for a £2 stake, if you can correctly predict how the Premier League will finish. I’m thinking to put the top […]

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How did I do?

By A Maths Teacher | Published: 28/05/2015

Back in this post, way back in August at the start of the football season, I wrote of how I was predicting the outcome of the Premier League and would compare my predictions with the actual finishing places using Spearman Rank Correlation Coefficient. So now the last ball has been kicked, the champions crowned and […]

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Boxing Day, Football Fixtures and Chinese Postmen

By A Maths Teacher | Published: 27/12/2014

Boxing Day. Possibly the only day I don’t envy the lifestyle of a Premier League footballer. Yes, they may earn millions, yes, they only “work” a few hours a day, but  Boxing Day is a day for rest and recovery, not for running around after a ball for ninety minutes. So I settled down on […]

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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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David Moyes – Flawed genius or just plain unlucky?

By A Maths Teacher | Published: 27/04/2014

Napoleon had his “lucky generals.” When told of the heroism, skill and experience of a General he is reported to have asked: That’s all very well, but is he lucky? Even the most football-phobic can’t help to have heard of the recent sacking from Manchester United of their manager, David Moyes.  Moyes had a torrid […]

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