If you know me in real life, it will come as no surprise to you that I have spent most of my summer holiday so far playing Pokemon Go. Those...

I'm going to do something completely out of character and write a TOPICAL post! Yes, I may live underneath a proverbial rock (what, the...

Draw an equilateral triangle on a bit of paper. Draw it nice and big. Now pick a corner to start at. Next, get a die (a D-6) and assign two...

Photo credit: Kenneth Kong/Facebook.  Imagine my delight when I found out last night that loads of people on the internet were talking a...

This post was originally written at the end of 2013. Today I had a very typical Further Maths A Level lesson. Someone asked a very simple ...

How should you round -1.5 to the nearest whole number? Almost anyone you ask this to will reply without thinking: -2, because 5 rounds up...

I recently sat down to plan a lesson for year 7 students about the order of mathematical operations. Here in the UK, I believe this is most ...

Shocker! Emma, the girl who loves maths, hates drawing graphs. This includes: cumulative frequency curves, histograms, graphs of parametri...

There is one question my students ask me that I hate far more than all others. Far more than "Why are you just a teacher?" and ...

How do you introduce "x" to your students? I'm guessing you start teaching informal algebra in this kind of way: 10 +...

Have you missed me? It's been over a whole glorious month since I last posted. I've been lying on my sofa reading nineties teen roma...

Inspiration for this post came from an unlikely source: a bottom set year seven class and a non-specialist maths teacher. He was teaching th...

This week marks my two year anniversary as a qualified teacher, and also the two year anniversary of NQTpi. Woo! As a third-year teacher, ...

Today I am 8888 days old. Enough said. Emma x x x x x x x x

Sorry it has been so long since I last wrote. Exam season is a very busy and stressful time for teachers as well as students! (Perhaps even ...

See what I did there? We had a faculty meeting last week, which can only mean one thing: a raging argument about the best way to teach som...

Ooh, today you're getting a discussion of maths and grammar, aren't you lucky? We had a "moderation day" last week. It...