New Area Coordinator for South Yorkshire
It is my pleasure to have been appointed to the role of Area Coordinator for South Yorkshire, taking over from my colleague Simon Dawson.
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Maths Feasts
As usual, Maths Feasts took place in early March, where teams of students worked their way through four rounds of questions.
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Students tuck into Maths Feasts
Before the lockdown, Year 10 students across Lincolnshire were kept busy solving maths problems against the clock, served up at Maths Feasts hosted by schools in Scunthorpe, Grimsby and Lincoln. Unfortunately, due to the Coronavirus, we had to cancel the event scheduled in Grantham.
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Farewell!
After eight happy years with the AMSP, and before that the FMSP, I have finally decided the time has come to retire and I will be leaving the AMSP at the end of April.
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The ‘happy ending problem’
This problem was so-called by the mathematician Paul Erdos because two of his friends who worked on it, George Szekers and Esther Klein, fell in love and got married!
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Resources available to support Year 12 students considering studying maths at university
At this time of year, and particularly later in the Summer Term, Year 12 students would normally be visiting open days, beginning to think seriously about choosing courses and possibly beginning to draft out personal statements.
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Puzzle challenge
Finding the pattern in this number sequence is hard, but all of your students from Year 7 to Year 13 can have a go at it.
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Teaching from home
The routine of working from home presents many challenges in these unprecedented times.
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Using videos in modelling Mechanics
We recently ran an Introduction to Problem Solving in Mechanics day for Year 12 students. The intention was for the day to be practical and interactive and to promote understanding of the mechanics part of the A level.
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