GCSE Teacher Networks continue to grow in the North West
Higher GCSE Network meetings have been running in the North West throughout this academic year in Liverpool, Tameside and Manchester.
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The continuing case for A level Further Mathematics
In its heyday during the 1980s, there were between 10 and 15,000 students studying A level Further Mathematics. But by the turn of the millennium, this had dropped by over half to around 5,000.
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Quadratic equations
Here at the AMSP North West headquarters, we’ve been adapting AMSP resources to provide a series of short enrichment tasks for GCSE Mathematics.
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North West Further Maths Conference
In the summer term, the AMSP North West regional team redelivered its successful North West Further Maths Conference.
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Martin’s Problem-Solving Club
I’d been wanting to do something to give a bit of a boost to our local Year 12 students who, like everyone else, have had a disrupted year.
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Learning from the Coronavirus: A worded problem to solve
We know from our conversations with teachers that worded problem solving questions can be a challenge for young people.
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Encouraging Women into Mathematics
Results of boys and girls taking GCSE Mathematics are fairly even but, from that time onwards, the number of female students taking maths drops significantly.
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Manchester enrichment day a “smashing” success
Before the Christmas break, a fantastic enrichment day took place at Xaverian College, Manchester.
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Developing standard problems: locality and plausibility
Recent enrichment activities, designed to help students engage more meaningfully with the mathematics they study and promote level 3 maths, highlighted certain features in the design that appeared to generate an additional ‘premium’ in terms of student engagement and motivation.
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