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

"It is a profoundly erroneous truism that we should cultivate the habit of thinking of what we are doing. The precise opposite is the...

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...

It's the start of a brand-new term, and lots of us teachers will be returning to work with more energy and a renewed sense of purpose. I...

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...