Hollywood Maths 2008
In our unending quest to find heroic men and women who can save the world and solve quadratic equations, we find two films to look out for this spring: 21. Kevin Spacey and a bunch of improbably attractive MIT maths students take Las Vegas by storm with their clever card-counting ways. The Oxford Murders. Fissure-faced [...]
Read the whole postAbstraction and Subtraction
Abstract concepts are better for teaching maths than real-world ones, according to a study reported on in a recent New York Times article. What does this mean for teaching maths and what does it mean for Maths-Whizz?
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Whizz Education is on the Tube (YouTube, that is)!   We’ve created a new Whizz Education YouTube channel to help spread the word about Maths-Whizz – both in schools and at home, offline and on-.
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The annual Technology, Education, Design (TED) conference in Monterey, California produces some fascinating speakers every year, on subjects as diverse as Neurology, Architecture, Computing, Astronomy and, of course, Education. One 2006 speaker - Sir Ken Robinson - gave a well-received talk on creativity in education (‘Do Schools Kill Creativity?’) that has been doing the rounds on the education blogosphere since. Robinson discussed how [...]
Read the whole postEncyclopaedically Inclined
‘The Whizz’ blog has managed to get free access to the huge online Encyclopedia Britannica! The service, called Britannica WebShare, enables us at Whizz, Maths-Whizz customers, and Whizz blog readers alike to access full Encyclopedia Britannica articles that we link to, on just about any subject, from Shakespeare (who died on this day) to the Shah Jahan (who [...]
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Maths teachers are always thinking of new ways to teach the subject. We’re constantly surprised at the ingenuity and variety of styles and methods that teachers use; but teaching maths in French – at a Scottish school – is new to us.  Maths genius Pierre de Fermat – coming soon… from Scotland?
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