Maths Resources (page 43)

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...

After tutoring AS Maths for numerous years, there are two main messages I would like to get across to all students who plan to start A-level Maths. Firstly, your GCSE grade do not ...

It is clear that many parents view with dismay the current fad for apps of all sorts on smart phones. It is nearly impossible to ban them completely. Apps can be a useful ally if a...

The brain is responsible for all processes in the body. The largest and most advanced part of the brain is our 'cerebral cortex'. It makes up around 80 percent of our brain area and ...

The key to mastering any subject is practise. This is especially true of Maths. What I often see is a lack of confidence in Maths that is caused by students who find it difficult t...