Maths Report Divides Education Community
Maths Report Divides Education Community Whizz.com research shows children make their own minds up about their maths ability before they reach the age of nine. This is why placing the blame on weak assessment of pupils by their teachers fails to get to the crux of the problem of why our children are failing at [...]
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Bit of blog news, here. We’ve had a torrent of spiced-ham-based electronic communications (otherwise known as ‘spam‘) on the blog of late. Deleting them all is giving the Whizzers repetitive strain injury, so we’ve installed a clever little device called ‘reCAPTCHA‘ to ensure all our comments come from bona-fide humans. If you want to comment [...]
Read the whole postGive thanks for Math-Whizz
It’s coming up to that time of the year when our Stateside customers rush homeward to eat and drink with family, and then fall asleep in a comfy armchairs, stuffed like the turkeys that are traditionally served on the day – Thanksgiving. [A reminder of the lengths some turkeys will go to to avoid the roasting [...]
Read the whole postFamily Maths
The National Audit Office (NAO) yesterday released a damning report on the state of primary school leavers’ maths ability (which we will cover in more detail tomorrow). An interesting note in the report suggests that family maths classes will help students. The report, which examined maths teaching in 28 schools, suggested that one way to help [...]
Read the whole postJoined-Up Teachers
Joined-Up Teachers is part 3 of Rob Eastaway’s excellent three part essay on maths and teaching (which we featured earlier in the year), and it’s now online. Joined-Up Teachers looks at the fact that there are many different types of maths teacher, and many of them, maybe even tens of millions (if you count all the [...]
Read the whole postLearn Maths, predict elections?
Nate Silver is 30 and has no experience as a political pundit or expert. Yet he predicted the historic outcome of the 2008 US elections back in March, 2008, long before the Democratic Party candidate – Barack Obama – had even been selected. The New York Times today reports on Silver’s success.  What was his secret? Maths. Mr. [...]
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