Author Archives: A Maths Teacher

Times Tables, part 2

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

And so it rumbles on, the great times tables debate: should pupils be expected to know – by heart – their times tables to twelve by the end of Year Six? Christine Blower, the leader of the NUT, has waded in to the argument, suggesting that tables don’t need to be known of pat as […]

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I ate and I ate …

By A Maths Teacher | Published: 03/01/2016

The Government has announced that it expects all children to be able to recall their times tables – up to and including 12 x 12 – by the time they reach age 11 and leave Primary School. Quite right too. They should know them before age 11, but it makes sense to test them at […]

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Happy New Year!

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

Happy New Year! I hope 25 x 32 x 7, or 2016 as it prefers to be known, is a good year for you. 2016 is 11111100000 in binary and 7e0 in hexadecimal, which is this shade of blue. Happy New Year. Related posts: Happy New Year! Happy 11111011111 2017 – A prime year 2013!

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Thank You!

By A Maths Teacher | Published: 30/12/2015

… and the stats are in. My blog has been visited circa 20,000 times in 2015 – a number with which I’m quite impressed.  Thank you for your continued support and readership; it really does make a difference to know that someone is actually reading what I write. I hope to be a little more […]

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Numbers Christmas Party

By A Maths Teacher | Published: 16/12/2015

It’s the numbers Christmas party. After a year of being added, subtracted, multiplied and divided by millions of schoolchildren, bothered by accountants and misused by politicians, the time has come for them to share a few drinks and let their hair down … Twelve and Six were lurking in the corner, spitefully passing judgement on […]

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