Author Archives: A Maths Teacher

Nicky Morgan joins the club …

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

In this post I told the tale of how the Chancellor, George Osborne, ducked a maths question (posed by a seven year old) live on TV. Now our Education Secretary has joined this elite gang by refusing to answer: “What is the cube root of 125?” Admittedly a little trickier than the problem that foxed […]

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Has the PM been reading my blog?

By A Maths Teacher | Published: 08/12/2014

I think that Dave (or The Right Honourable David Cameron to give him his full, and correct title) has been reading my blog. Back in August 2013 I wrote about the shortage of maths teachers, and here we are, a mere 16 months later and he is today announcing plans to recruit and train an […]

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An Infinity of Chocolate

By A Maths Teacher | Published: 26/11/2014

I’m off to buy myself a bar!

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All you need is …

By A Maths Teacher | Published: 10/11/2014

Here’s a challenge for you: Fire up your favourite graph plotter (mine is Desmos) and see if you can reduce LOVE to four equations. You’ll need to think about the domain and range, and a knowledge of the modulus function helps, making this a good exercise for A-Level students. *** Spoiler Alert *** You can […]

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Consequences

By A Maths Teacher | Published: 31/10/2014

When I were a lad things were different. When I were a lad, an eye pad was a patch taped onto the glasses of the kid who suffered from “lazy eye”; a wii was, well, a wee and an ex-box was all that remained of your cereal packet after your sugar coated breakfast treat. When […]

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