That's definitely a question my maths colleagues and I have asked each other after an afternoon double period... But in this case I'...

Last Monday I stumbled upon an article in the Guardian titled "Schools teach chess to help "difficult" children concentrate...

Today I shared an activity with my colleagues and they seemed to like it so I thought I'd share it here too. I told my colleagues (Mat...

Today I'm going to tell you about one of my favourite ways to kill a spare fifteen minutes in a maths lesson. It's great because it ...

I had become fed up of marking my year 10s' fortnightly assessments. They are aiming for a grade C, and following the Higher syllabus, w...

Remember my post from June 2013 about a new way to teach dividing fractions?  Well the other day I came up with another new method! You m...

This post is about challenging our most able young mathematicians. I always thought I was good at giving students challenging learning act...

(Substitute "year sevens" with "seventh graders" if you're American, "S1s" if you're Scottish, or ...

First, the riddle: You are driving along a 2-mile long bridge. You drive the first mile at an average speed of 30mph. You want your avera...

How do you divide a fraction by another fraction? For example, how would you do something like this: My guess is you would flip th...

In this post I am going to describe to you the lesson that I taught this week which was graded as Outstanding by an OfSTED inspector. Obvi...

(I was contemplating calling this post "Every Loser Wins", but I hate that song). As all of you should know by now, I'm a wi...

Before this year, I'd never watched so much as one minute of an Olympic event. Not even China's opening ceremony last time (I have ...

In today's blog post, I'm going to be sharing with you one of the first classroom activities I was ever taught. As a would-be teache...

Every so often I'll post about an activity I did or a technique I used that was good. I find I often forget these good things when I sho...