Maths Resources (page 56)

One thing I have noticed about most students who have gone onto universities like Oxford, Cambridge, Imperial, UCL or the LSE, is that they plan in adavance their revision. They don`...

Six Characteristics to Look for in a Math Tutor 1. Educational Background An effective math tutor must have the ability to master concepts they are teaching to others. Having ...

Eight hundred years ago an Italian mathematician named Fibonacci posed the following problem: There are 2 new-born rabbits in a field (one male, one female). After a month they ca...

Find a good Revision Guide and Workbook, I like Success from Letts, for your specific exam board and tier. Remember, practice makes perfect! Therefore you have to work through the ...

This once drove my grandad and I to distraction, we even got scales and marbles out on the kitchen table. Can you solve it without seeing the solution below? The Puzzle: Y...

The Game Show Imagine a game show. It's the kind of show where you have to choose a box out of three options. You know one of them has a car and the other two contain goats. You al...

I often find that students work very hard at getting their head around equations and work equally hard on graphs. More often than not, they don't realise that equations and graphs ar...

In Radio 4`s More or Less, sports statistician Rob Mastrodomenico took a look at a BBC blog that discusses whether premier league defending is getting worse. He focusses on the fact t...

The following is the text of my letter to the Times Educational Supplement, which was published in April 2012. Conrad Wolfram is right to argue that we need to rethink our prioriti...

Logistic regression By Sourav Das Logistic regression is part of a category of statistical models called generalized linear models. This broad class of models includes ordinary...