I do love a bit of cross-curricularism. Although maths will always be my first love, I must admit to being passionate about language too. On...

Many new NQTs will have already started their new jobs, just like I did last July. Because of this, I thought now might be an appropriate ti...

If you're thinking that this title sounds familiar, it's because you're thinking of my famous post "Is Zero a Square number...

Me and some colleagues were discussing this today: do you consider yourself a maths teacher or a mathematician? If you reply by saying mat...

On Monday I was tutoring a girl in year nine, and teaching her about linear graphs, and the whole y = mx + c thing. She asked what linear me...

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...

One of my students asked me that the other day. With particular emphasis on the "just". It's quite insulting really, although ...