Resident Sigma IB Maths Support

A simple save the date message for all parents of IB Maths Students to keep Sunday June 28th 11am UK time aside for a FREE webinar led by Mike Herd of Resident Sigma IB Maths.

This webinar will be suitable for parents of:
✅November 2026 IB Maths candidates
✅Year 1 students going into Year 2
✅ Students beginning the diploma for the first time!

In this webinar, I will be giving you an introduction to Resident Sigma IB Maths, detailing more of my background and providing you with really good insights from an examiner’s perspective as to how you can support your child with their IB prep over the summer, how my examiner experience has shaped my approaches to teaching IB and sharing details of the success programs I will be offering to help students across all IB Maths courses, Maths AA or AI, HL or SL, get the best results they possibly can.

This will be a great way for you to meet me from wherever you are in the world, ask questions to me directly and learn a little more about Resident Sigma IB Maths.

So save the date, and also this post PLUS share with any parents of IB students you know. Full sign up details will be made available very soon! But for now, this is is simply for you to keep this date and time set aside for our free parent webinar!

Looking forward to meeting all of you soon on Zoom!

Cheers,
Mike

I’ve finally completed my marking for IB Maths AAHL paper 2. It was definitely a lot of hours spent and finally got there. This was certainly a challenging but very fair paper and lots of useful insights to take from it this year!

While it’s all over for this May, there are definitely people preparing for their November papers this year and if you’re an IB student in Australia, Singapore, Peru, Brazil, Argentina or Columbia preparing for November exams, follow along for regular insightful tips that will help you Ib your journey towards a 6 or 7- be it AA or AI, HL or SL. We will help you get there!

Not really an advice post, mostly a personal post. I’m 40 papers in and this is really about how I begun my IB Maths journey- and it comes back to the city which changed my life in so many positive ways, my 2nd home and joint (biased) favourite city in the world: Shanghai.

I worked for one of the top international schools in the world in shanghai. A job I loved in a city I loved and with amazing colleagues and of course amazing students. When I do this marking, I feel it keeps memories alive of what was such a great period in my life that lasted a full 14 years! It’s actually where I would say I did my adult growing up. And Shanghai really did change my life in so many ways it would need its own Instagram page to explain 😂 but of the many things shanghai gave me, an introduction to IB Maths was definitely a real career highlight. I really do hope to make it back to shanghai in some sort of IB maths capacity - that really is the dream, to be able to come back and forth to deliver IB masterclasses in person. I love Glasgow, genuinely and love living here too- but I want to make it a reality to come back and forth to this fine city sitn my RS brand 😎

所以你们都应该祝我加油😂

I’m 14 papers deep into IB Maths AAHL Paper 2 TZ2 marking. Including the practice papers, thats 29 I’ve done. And some very interesting takeaways I’m eager to share. Flip through the carousel to see what I’m noticing- these are insights that will set up current Year 1 students or November candidates in countries like Australia or South American nations well.

If you’re in either of those camps or are a parent, please save this and follow for more insights on the way!