Author Archives: A Maths Teacher

Ouch!

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

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Normal for joggers

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 …

… 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

Whose doing what – data on exam entries for Summer 2024

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