Author Archives: A Maths Teacher

Ouch!

By A Maths Teacher | Published: 21/02/2025

Teaching – its like a sharp blow to the back of the head

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Normal for joggers

By A Maths Teacher | Published: 02/02/2025

Runners competing in the Hakone Ekiden Yosenkai half marathon naturally take the form of the Normal Distribution. I do like to see mathematics “live, and in the wild”, one to share with my students. It’s even clearer in video form, found on X (the site formally known as Twitter) With thanks to Japan Running News […]

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How I beat chat GPT …

By A Maths Teacher | Published: 12/01/2025

… with a little help from my friends I’ve been teaching maths for a fair few years now and I am definitely in that dangerous stage of thinking I know it all and have seen it all before. Things have certainly changed since I first picked up a piece of chalk and faced the enemy […]

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The rise and rise of A level maths

By A Maths Teacher | Published: 31/05/2024

Whose doing what – data on exam entries for Summer 2024

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Outstanding coursework!

By A Maths Teacher | Published: 14/02/2024

Weaning myself off school and education at the end of a busy half-term, I found myself scrolling through edu-twitter and reading of a suggestion that coursework may find its way back into GCSE maths. Being somewhat long in the tooth and grey in the hair, I remember “teaching” maths coursework and I don’t think I […]

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