Is this the hardest working teacher in the UK? Maths teacher from London wins £33,000 global award

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

Tricky 15-question quiz will put your maths and logic skills to the test

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

Mum left baffled by daughter’s maths homework – so, do YOU know the answer?

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

Mum begs for help with her seven-year-old’s maths homework

Are they training them for NASA? Desperate mum begs for help with her seven-year-old’s confusing maths homework (and even a woman with a PHD can’t understand it!) Teresa Hopper shared a photo of her seven-year-old’s question sheet to the Facebook group Family Lockdown Tips and Tricks where she asked for help  Tricky maths question asked … Read more

British maths genius wins £2.3m prize from Mark Zuckerberg’s foundation

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

Secondary school maths teacher appalled by intransigence of her union to get children back to school

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’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 Maths and English

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

Bank of England chief economist didn’t take maths A-level

The Bank of England’s chief economist has revealed that he has struggled at times by not taking maths A-level, as he urged Britons to brush up on their numeracy skills.  Andy Haldane, 52, revealed that he had to teach himself A-level maths skills ‘one very difficult summer’ before pursuing a degree in economics at The … Read more