Maths Resources (page 57)

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...

ALBERT EINSTEIN`S RIDDLE There are no tricks, just pure logic, so good luck and don`t give up. 1. In a street there are five houses, painted five different colours. 2. In ea...

Mathematics plays an integral role in society today with almost every career using some sort of mathematics (St Paul Public Schools 2011). More importantly mathematics helps the mind ...

A Gifted and Talented child is defined as one with the ability or potential to develop to a level significantly ahead of their year group (DirectGov, 2012). Gifted learners classify t...

Unfortunately, this is something that a large percentage of adults think, let alone children, but it needn`t be the case. Just as people with dyslexia can overcome their problems wit...

Introduction. Very often people rely on their "common sense" to answer questions or to make judgements. However good or bad this methodology is will ultimately depend on a person`s...