Make iterations easy with the new Casio ClassWizz: GCSE Maths

With the old FX-83/85 and FX911 ES calculator, you could solve an equation numerically, using iteration and the ANS button. But with the newer ClassWizz calculator released by Casio, you can make use of the spreadsheet function to do this much more efficiently. See my video below for instructions on …

SAT 2 Math- Worry not! What UK students really need to know.

With more and more UK students deciding to cast their net wider and apply for US colleges we find an increase in the number of students needing to find a way to prepare for the Collegeboard SATs. The specific specification of the exam can be found on the Collegeboard’s website. …

Get your Golden Ticket – only 2 days left!

Royal Institution Christmas Lecture 2017 As always, at this time of year, I start looking forward to catching the Royal Institution Christmas Lectures on the television. This year the speaker will be Prof Saiful Islam. Here is the RI’s description of the lecture series: Prof Saiful Islam leads an incredible …

Fingers in a mess!

[subscribe2] A lively debate on an online teaching forum has spurred me on to think further about the use of fingers and hands in education. In particular the use of fingers in maths and counting. There seems to be a bias against using fingers for counting, yet using hands and …

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