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Ok, hands up, who know’s someone who is as helpful as this?   I found these recently at quickmem.com – listed as “Unhelpful High School Teacher”. Well,[...]

Here’s a unique way to support the educational charity ‘Common Hope’. The charity is focussed on supporting and empowering children and their families in Guatemal[...]

The arrival of the 2012 Olympics is clearly an event that sparks much interest. It is wholly sensible to use this context to help engage learners and we have produced our own set o[...]

For a long time now most teachers and researchers have agreed that effective learning takes place when learners actively construct meaning. For example, Mills, O’Keefe & Whitin[...]

Just as the Government swings the focus back on ‘arithmetic’ and away from ‘mathematics’ Shyama Perera made me smile with this statement in the Telegraph: S[...]

The International Journal of Early Childhood recently published some interesting research on the mathematical competencies as shown in their play. It is an interesting read for any[...]

Okay, even Dara O’Briain can’t fight against a tide of history. Maths lessons are seen as difficult, irrelevant, boring and uninteresting by a third of teenagers…[...]

In his entertaining and TED talk from 2006, Sir Ken Robinson made a clear case for creating an education system that encourages creativity. He pointed out that creativity is a vita[...]

Block graphs, Pie Charts, even mean median and mode will always be useful, but there are new techniques and technologies that can make data even more meaningful. In this Data Visua[...]