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Quite Interesting

By A Maths Teacher | Published: 01/04/2016

Twitter is a wonderful thing. I woke up this morning, fired up my PC, checked my twitter stream and was instantly enlightened. A tweet from @Teach Further Maths informed me that the number 40, when written as forty, is the only number that is spelled in alphabetical order, and that “one” is the only number […]

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Back in my prime

By A Maths Teacher | Published: 28/03/2016

Today is my birthday and, for the first time in four years, my age is a prime number. After this year, it will be another six years before I am “prime” again. Hold old am I? (And just a little context, in case you don’t know me, I am not (alas!) a very young teacher, […]

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Massive Maths FAIL

By A Maths Teacher | Published: 01/02/2016

It’s perhaps ironic that shortly after posting an amusing, but innocent, maths fail my attention is drawn to this ridiculous phone accessory being sold by ee. Disgraceful. A true maths fail that eclipses them all.   ee – Maths fail. Hang your heads in shame. Related posts: Maths Fail #4 Maths Fail #2 Maths Fail […]

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Fractions are hard

By A Maths Teacher | Published: 01/02/2016

Fractions aren’t easy, but this still makes it into my maths fail collection. Could make an interesting discussion point in a lesson – who can spot the error (although my highlighting helps!) The original can be found here. Related posts: Oops! Massive Maths FAIL Maths Fail #4 Adding and Subtracting Fractions

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9th Jan 2016 – A Rotational Date

By A Maths Teacher | Published: 09/01/2016

9th Jan 2016 – 9 1 16 – it’s not a palindromic date, but it is a rotational date: it has an order of rotational symmetry of 2.  That means if you rotate it about its centre it looks exactly the same when rotated through 1800 (You have to pick the right font, of course. […]

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