“Please, Miss, I can’t do it!”
Have you noticed how some pupils give up on maths before they’ve even started? How it’s almost okay to say the sweeping statement, “I’m no good at maths”, sometimes with a strange sense of pride?
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Meet your Area Coordinator: Valerija Peles
As a newly appointed Area Coordinator within Whitby and Scarborough and parts of the North East region, I feel privileged to be collaborating with teachers and students from schools and colleges in North Yorkshire, Middlesbrough, Redcar, Cleveland and Stockton.
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Inspiring tomorrow’s female mathematicians
Lancaster University Management School welcomed 136 pupils and 24 teachers from 14 schools and colleges in the North West on Thursday 9 January 2020 for the eighth annual Florence Nightingale Day.
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It’s now easier to find professional development and enrichment events
Our new-look Events page now includes filtering features to help you find the events that best match your needs. These link to clear event details, from which it is easy to register online for a place.
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Core Maths – engaging students early
I recently visited Hillside High School in Bootle, Merseyside to promote A level Mathematics and Further Mathematics to Year 11 students. This was my second visit, and a Year 10 student later said to his teacher, “Hey, that’s the second time he’s been in to work with the top sets. Why don’t we get any visits?”.
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Year 10 challenge Maths Feast returns in early 2019
The AMSP’s annual Year 10 maths challenge, Maths Feast, is returning for 2019! Teams from around the country are invited to compete in our fun educational competition, designed to test problem-solving, communication and teamwork skills.
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Raising Confidence with Problem Solving in the GCSE classroom PD event
I love the definition of problem solving given by Guy Claxton, ‘knowing what to do when you don’t know what to do’. It says it all.
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Problem Solving Competition
The AMSP is running a competition that challenges students to draw on their problem-solving skills.
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Where can maths take your students?
As maths teachers, we would love as many students as possible to study maths post-16, and we are undoubtedly more aware than most of the advantages that continuing to study maths would give students.
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