Mathsnumeracytutor

27/05/2023

‘You are not bad at maths,” she says firmly after our first session, with a confidence I do not share. “What you were presented with aged seven was never processed or absorbed. The groundwork wasn’t laid. You need to understand the concepts and you never did.”

At school, Hilary Rose was so bad, her top exam mark was 18 per cent. Can she solve her problem with numbers in two weeks?

18/03/2023

Wow: autism is certainly something to rave about. Many young people will relate to aspects of Fern’s experiences, I suspect!

In public Fern Brady is a successful stand-up comedian. In private she has violent meltdowns and extreme social anxiety. Now she knows why

17/03/2023

During the pandemic…”Everyone had two years at home and for some children that was really appealing. Afterwards they found coming back into the social arena very difficult.‘

What can you do when your child doesn’t fit the academic mould, asks Lucy Cavendish, mother of Ottoline

05/03/2023

‘At Davos this year, pundits liked to throw around fancy words like “polycrisis”, which refers to how the world is being battered by multiple crises at once. Gen Z have lived it; it’s all they’ve known.”

The primary school leaderIt was the twitching thumbs I noticed when the children came back in September 2021 after successive lockdowns.They were glad they were

04/03/2023

“The analysis showed significant raw gaps in reading, science and maths performance, with pupils in single-s*x schools performing better than those in mixed-schools.

However, once the researchers applied a range of individual and school level factors such as the socioeconomic background of the student, the school student-staff ratio, the quality of teaching material available to the school and whether or not the school is disadvantaged, these gaps did not present as statistically significant.”

The study looked at academic performance among children attending single s*x and mixed schools.

16/02/2023

Excruciating emotions in a fabulous beach setting! As this article explains you can watch this short film for free on YouTube for the next few days.

They’re brimming with nostalgia, memories of family days out, ice creams and chippies, long summer days.

25/01/2023

Decolonising Maths sounds a good move! This book gives some helpful references that provide food for thought (for instance about Einstein)

Join us for an inspiring book launch with Sandew Hira for his latest publication, Decolonizing The Mind – a guide to decolonial theory and practice.

24/12/2022

This put some figures on the shortage of Support Teachers in secondary schools...

Children with suspected dyslexia should be supported from nursery age to avoid a “miserable” school life, according to a specialist teacher who…

19/07/2022

Land clearing was a given as the primary cause of wildlife losses. Between 2000 and 2017, seven million hectares of land — more than three times the size of Wales — was cleared across Australia.

Australia has lost more mammal species than any other continent and suffered catastrophic losses of wildlife and habitat, a “shocking” report has revealed.The l

05/05/2022

Other lives: Iraqi-born political activist and pioneer in maths education who supported teachers in challenging children to think

27/01/2022

Andreas Schleicher, director of education at the OECD, said: “In Estonia, nobody would have this term ‘extracurricular activity’. For them, that is the curriculum.”

In Estonia children learn robotics from the age of seven and teachers use virtual reality to bring geography, chemistry, history and languages to life. This tin