Maths Resources (page 34)

Ever wondered why we are here and what is it all about? How do plants know how to arrange their branches according to the Fibonacci sequence and the Golden Ratio? Why is the Golden Ra...

Last year, at Christmas, I went with my husband and children to see the Compendium of Reason at the Hammersmith Odeon in London. This is 3 hour extravaganza of music, comedy and scie...

In today s economical climate, it can be extremely difficult in acquiring that dream job - merely high grades may not be sufficient. This is why, I teach in a manner that is uniqu...

Part of the GCSE and A-level mathematics syllabus covers trigonometric identities and formulae which can be difficult to remember so here are some mnemonics to help you. Firstl...

Mathematics certainly has great uses in many applied fields such as Physics, Chemistry, but also Economics, Computer Science and many others. Basically we can find Mathematics everywh...

In this brief article I will discuss the challenges facing mathematically gifted and talented students in our secondary schools and at home. Many mathematically gifted and talented ...

FRACTIONS, DECIMALS AND PERCENTAGES(See also the notes on recurring decimals, which can be a bit trickier.)We often use fractions, decimals and percentages interchangeably. We might s...

RATIOSRatios are very similar to fractions. We will illustrate the approach using an example.ExampleAli, Ben and Colin are aged 10, 12 and 16 years. They share £96.90 in the rat...

FRACTIONSFractions are numbers of the sort a/b (a divided by b) where a and b are whole numbers and a is less than b.You need to be careful how you manipulate fractions. Adding and su...

PRIME NUMBERSA prime number is a number whose only divisors are 1 and itself. In ascending order, the prime numbers are 2, 3, 5, 7, 11, 13, 17, 19, etc etc.Note that by convention 1 i...