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Climbing Mountains in Winter

By A Maths Teacher | Published: 24/10/2015

Why do people climb mountains in Winter? Or go hill walking in Autumn? Those that do will tell you that it is for the challenge, the fresh air, the excitement. For the companionship if walking as a group, for the solitude if climbing alone. And, most of all, for the stunning views. They lie. On […]

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Group work

By A Maths Teacher | Published: 11/10/2015

To be fair, successive governments have been pretty successful in raising the profile and importance of Maths as an A Level and it is the most popular A-Level with circa 11% of 2015 entries being A Level Maths. But this is not without its problems – as pupils and parents recognise the value of Maths […]

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You couldn’t make it up, could you?

By A Maths Teacher | Published: 25/08/2015

A year or so ago a group of teachers were “discussing” the “management’s” latest initiative to improve standards (for which, read results, for which read position in league table) when one teacher made one of the most profound and insightful statements about education that have heard: They won’t improve the results by making us [teachers] […]

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‘Twas the night before results day …

By A Maths Teacher | Published: 22/08/2015

So, when I went to bed last night I was a little anxious. Why? Today is GCSE results day and as I fell asleep I wasn’t convinced that my whole class would secure that oh so important Grade C (or better.) There were (at least) 3 students of mine for whom a grade C would […]

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Golf – Its just A Level Maths

By A Maths Teacher | Published: 16/07/2015

And so the superb summer of sport rolls on. We’ve had the women’s success in the football World Cup, watched some sublime rallies at Wimbledon and thumped the Aussies to secure the First Test in the Ashes series. Now our attention swings northwards to St. Andrews, Scotland, for the Open Golf Championship. Golf, despite what […]

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