For a brief period during lockdown, millions of parents suddenly found themselves doing something they had never really expected to do: teaching their own children mathematics. Many were highly educated, perfectly numerate and completely comfortable with school maths themselves. Yet a surprisingly common experience was something like: I know how to do this. Why can’t…
By the time I was 11, I had already lived in five different countries. By 13, I had quietly fallen behind in mathematics and failed my end-of-year exam. It wasn’t for lack of intelligence. It wasn’t even for lack of effort. I was just lost in a cycle of constant school transitions, new languages, and…
This blog post is a write up of my fourth maths conference. La Salle Education run the UK’s largest network of maths teachers’ professional development along with an online platform Complete Maths. Attended by around 400 maths teachers and a few tutors, the conferences are invaluable professional development, training and networking with fellow maths teaching…