Jamie Frost (pictured above), who works in Kingston upon Thames, received the one-off prize for going above and beyond during the Covid crisis to help keep pupils learning A maths teacher from south-west London has won a £33,000 global teaching award after his free tuition website helped students around the world study during the Covid-19 … Read more
The school corridors echo with the sound of lockers slamming, while the kids in the playground are laughing and joking. Inside the classroom, I’m deep in concentration as I try to calculate what time Lawrence needs to put his 2kg chicken in the oven to eat it at 6.30pm. No, I’m not having a nightmare. … Read more
Take this tricky 15-question quiz to put your maths and logic skills to the test – and its creator claims less than 1% can score full marks This tricky 15 question challenge is a tricky mixture of maths and logic puzzles Creator Michael Rogers claims just 0.1 per cent of people will score full marks … Read more
Do the math! Mum begs for help to solve her daughter’s tricky numeracy homework – so, can YOU work out the answer? Alison Kindred, from Newport, Wales, was stumped by daughter’s homework Took to Facebook group ‘family lockdown tips & ideas’ to ask others for help Many were confused by answer, while some suggested pizza … Read more
British genius wins £2.3m prize for working out the maths involved in stirring a cup of tea with work so clever that ‘it must have been sent to him by aliens’ Martin Hairer, from Imperial College London, won Breakthrough prize for maths The Austrian-British researcher, 44, had been working on his stochastic analysis The field … Read more
Appalled by the intransigence of her union when it comes to getting pupils back into classrooms, this maths teacher at a state secondary in the North of England resigned her membership. Here, in a powerful account, the experienced teacher in her late 30s – who asked to remain anonymous – lays bare the unions’ shameful … Read more
Music lessons do NOT help children’s other areas of study like reading and maths, research suggests Music lessons do not help children improve cognitive skills for reading or maths Findings come from a review of 54 scientific studies involving 7,000 children But lessons can improve general intelligence, memory and sound perception By Victoria Allen Science … Read more
Schools could teach a slimmed-down curriculum focusing on English and maths to allow students time to catch up when classes restart in September. Secondary pupils taking their GCSEs may even need to drop subjects entirely so they can focus on the core classes, according to draft proposals seen by the Huffington Post. Some Year 7 … Read more
‘That was the equivalent of a year 4 maths question!’ The Chase fans are left shocked after Dark Destroyer gets a VERY basic question wrong By Ellie May Donohoe For Mailonline Published: 14:14 BST, 25 April 2020 | Updated: 14:16 BST, 25 April 2020 The Chase fans were left in uproar on Friday’s episode after the … Read more
Former Cambridge University maths student, 23, appears in court charged with anti-Semitic hate crime after ‘calling for extermination of Jews’ Oliver Bel, 23, allegedly sent a ‘grossly offensive’ message in September 2017 Defendant is also accused of having a copy of Anarchist’s Cookbook last year Bel appeared at Old Bailey via video from Manchester today … Read more