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You know the summer holiday is over when …

I know the summer holidays are over because: After spending the summer in flip-flops, I now have a whacking big blister on my heel from my brand new ‘school shoes.’ Ironing smart work shirts takes so much longer than ironing T-Shirts. Whenever I wake up in the night I double check that I have set […]

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Maths vandalism!

OK – so we can’t condone vandalism, but I love this! (for your viewing pleasure, make sure you have sound on by clicking the little speaker symbol in the top left hand corner) Click on the pic to start, and click on it again to stop it once you’ve had enough. I’m off to grab […]

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Congratulations!

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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Maths Teacher Shortage!

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

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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