Mathmo Consulting

01/01/2026

I am deeply grateful to my students, past and present, for their inspiration, and to the many principals, teachers, and colleagues I have worked with to restore confidence in mathematics education in New Zealand. 🙏

It is a genuine honour and surprise to be included in the 2026 New Year Honours list in recognition of my services to mathematics education.  I am deeply grateful to my students, past and present, for their inspiration, and to the many principals, teachers, and colleagues I have worked with to res...

01/07/2025

From https://arxiv.org/abs/2106.11285

"Judging whether life is or is not worth living amounts to answering the fundamental question of philosophy. All the rest — whether or not the world has three dimensions, whether the mind has nine or twelve categories — comes afterwards. These are games; one must first answer." Albert Camus in The Myth of Sisyphus

23/08/2023

50 years of Cantamath! 😍 I attended my first competition when I was 5 or 6 years old.

30/04/2023

Gosh, I wish I had seen this animation when I was student. Instead, we constructed the cotangent and tangent line (around 4:15) last week and it was a thing of beauty! Such a pity most of this is lost in the learning of trigonometry because we focus so much on the algebra.

Computer animation by Jason Schattman that shows how sine, cosine, tangent, cotangent, secant & cosecant all fit together in one beautifully unified structur...

12/09/2022

Weaving was the Big Idea of NCEA Numeracy, but it’s starting to unravel…

16/04/2022

A great activity for littlies! 🎲

14/03/2022

Happy Pi Day! We all know that Kiwis love a good pi... 🥧

Pi Day is celebrated on March 14th (3/14) around the world. Pi (Greek letter “π”) is the symbol used in mathematics to represent a constant — the ratio of the circumference of a circle to its diameter…

07/12/2021

Educating our way towards a better and happier society. (y)

When teacher Andrea Tritton started hearing anti-vaccine theories in her classroom, she threw out the curriculum for two weeks to tackle them.

25/08/2021

Great news, we will make the most of those extra two weeks. (y)

We recognise the disruption that COVID-19 has caused teaching and learning in 2021.
Today changes to the assessment dates were announced, including NCEA and NZ Scholarship exams.
More information: http://www.nzqa.govt.nz/ncea2021

25/08/2021

https://www.facebook.com/BringBackColumnAddition/posts/4390009074375453

This video was made especially for primary school children in New Zealand who are distance learning in 2020. Many Kiwi kids struggle with basic numeracy tas...

25/08/2021

https://www.facebook.com/BringBackColumnAddition/posts/4389991601043867

This video was made especially for primary school children in New Zealand who are distance learning in 2020. Many Kiwi kids struggle with basic numeracy tas...

25/08/2021

Really missing Cantamath tonight. 😪

We could not be prouder of all of our students participating in the Cantamath competitions this evening. Great results in Year 7, a leading Year 8 team, and first prize in Year 9! Congratulations to everyone. 🥳🥳🥳👍👍👍