Author Archives: A Maths Teacher

Today – The Root of All Evil!

By A Maths Teacher | Published: 25/08/2013

If 666 – the number of the beast – symbolises all that is evil, the square root of 666 must be the root of all evil. √666 = 25.8 (to 1 decimal place) and today is the 25th of August, or 25.8 So today is the root of all evil day. [Should you be worried? […]

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Congratulations!

By A Maths Teacher | Published: 23/08/2013

Congratulations to all of those who got the results they deserved and hoped for in yesterday’s GCSE results (and last week’s A & AS Levels) – you’ve worked hard, done your best and reaped the rewards. Well Done!   Related posts: If maths teachers wrote Christmas cracker jokes A Christmas Puzzle A Marathon Problem The […]

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Radians

By A Maths Teacher | Published: 18/08/2013

A picture paints a thousand words Most people and pupils* are pretty comfortable with using degrees to measure angles. Whilst 360o might seem an arbitrary number to split a complete rotation into, it makes sense to most. But in A-Level maths (and beyond) the humble degree doesn’t always cut it, and students are introduced to […]

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Maths Teacher Shortage!

By A Maths Teacher | Published: 13/08/2013

I’m enjoying my summer hols. Today, I went for my daily swim at my local open air lido, swam my kilometer (pauses to polish halo), came home, made my lunch and settled down outside to eat it. Turning on the radio and tucking in to my first sandwich as the sun beat down on me, […]

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Log Tables

By A Maths Teacher | Published: 11/08/2013

Remember these? Whilst having a summer holiday clear out and rummaging through an old cupboard, I came across these “Log Tables” as we used to call them when I was at school ( a long, long time ago!) But they had so much more than just logs, they had sine, cosine and tangent tables too: […]

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