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...

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 ...

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

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...