Maths Resources (page 41)

What is the Golden Ratio? It is a numerical ratio found in Nature, Music, Art, Biology and many more aspects of life. Plants arrange their structure according to this number. Art i...

One of the most important pieces of maths you`ll learn at GCSE and A Level is factorising a quadratic. Most methods taught by teachers are cumbersome and not intuitive at all - this c...

A quadratic expression is the form ax2 + bx + c where a, b, c, are constant. The simplest quadratic form is when a=1 so we have x2 + bx + c. There are a number of different teaching m...

1. In the beginning ... Knowledge about the possible beginnings of human mental development comes from research on the co-evolution of language and the human brain. The central ide...

Learning about maths today can be an exciting, colourful and rewarding experience, particularly if you explore the NRICH website! A hundred and fifty years ago life was very diffe...

Research in Mathematics Education "I would rather die": reasons given by 16-year-olds for not continuing their study of mathematics Margaret Brown a , Peter Brown a , and Tamar...

What Is a Mathematically Rich Task? Stage: 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5 Article by Steve Hewson Rich tasks open up mathematics. They transform the subject from a collection of memorised ...

To aid our understanding of this topic there are some key words that need to be defined. Throughout this article these key words are highlighted in bold italics. . Base: A quanti...

Can we live without zero? Imagine nothingness, and we will think of vacuum and empty space. A mathematician would, however, conceive a number to represent that very property....

1) Context - the perspective of a successful veteran private tutor. 2) What teaching must successfully be 3) Why teaching fails This is a radical, yet necessary, way to rejuven...