Blogs on 'Teaching maths'

An ice cream cone with 3 scoops of ice cream, some cherries and sprigs of leaves. They are arranged on a blackboard which has a range of mathematical drawings on it

Join Lucy Rycroft-Smith as she weighs in on what the definition of an ‘edge’ is and therefore how many edges a cone ‘should’ have

The image shows a three-dimensional graph with interconnected lines and dots, forming peaks and valleys that resemble a mountainous landscape. The graph is set against a blurred background with warm hues, and the points are highlighted in various colors, indicating different data values or categories.

If you’re looking for a new way to explore data in your classroom, Darren Macey encourages you to try CODAP – a free online tool that’s “a bit like GeoGebra, but for statistics and data”. Enjoy!

A person wearing red glasses surrounded by multiple cut outs of eyes, with a red and blue striped background

Darren Macey describes three distinct approaches to exploring statistical ideas, and demonstrates how these could be applied through a classroom task

Blank jigsaw pieces spread out across a surface

Join Tabitha Gould as she thinks about comparing quantities and the sometimes counter-intuitive ideas that can arise as we try to make sense of infinity and the infinitely large!

A bridge over a river with hot air balloons floating in the background on a sunset

Tabitha Gould invites you to notice metaphors that are used when we think and talk about mathematics and invites you to join the conversation as we prepare to release a website for teachers

A London tube train parked up at a station

Guest author Nathan Barker shares some of his experiences of working with Underground Mathematics and points to some of his favourite examples of these free resources

$An artistical fractal image of a head repeating into itself$

Darren Macey looks at the central limit theorem and explores how ideas encountered in earlier education may be developed to support deeper understanding

Someone weaving a large crochet in black and yellow yarn

Rachael Horsman explores the work of Professor Paulus Gerdes and his Toothed Square

Lynne McClure explores the low threshold, high ceiling game Strike it out

Darren Macey discusses opportunities in statistics and data analysis for socially responsive lessons

Blogs on 'Teaching maths'

On the edge

A case for CODAP

Statistical ways of seeing

The whole is equivalent to some of its parts

Metaphors, musings and maps: Do you see mathematics?

Get aboard Underground Mathematics

The central limit theorem

Whose theorem is it anyway?

Striking up a mathematical conversation

But what can I do?