Now that I will have some free time from tutoring over the Christmas period I am going to return to watch some of my favourite maths and physics themed films. I’ll come back over the next few weeks to write my thoughts on each film as I watch them again. …
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 …
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. …
A very timely article appeared in the Economist today given the upcoming PISA results day on the 6th of this month. “Learning from the world’s swottiest countries” – a review and discussion of Lucy Crehan’s new book based on research during her gap year from teaching science in a secondary …
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 …
I had a few minutes spare this morning and was inspired by a fellow tutors request for a Cos-rule song. So I had a play around and this is what I came up with. A little rhyme to try and help students recall the cos rule involving sides of a …
How to differentiate and integrate cos(x) and sin(x). I have recently found that several students struggle to deal with the differentiation and integration of the cos(x) and sin(x) functions. This usually occurs once the integral form of these functions is introduced, and students tend to get muddled as to where …
[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 …
