Government re-emphasises personal tuition for lagging students
Education Secretary Ed Balls today re-iterated the government’s commitment to personal tuition for students falling behind in literacy and numeracy, reported today by the BBC. The £315m already allocated to the scheme would be disbursed amongst the local education authorities. Parents who felt their children were falling through the cracks, and not getting the needed [...]
Read the whole postMichael Jackson – wonderful musician, bad mathematician…
I never realised I’d be able to shoehorn maths into possibly yesterday’s biggest news story – the sad and sudden death of Michael Jackson, the ‘King of Pop’ – but it’s incredible what you can dig up online. And so, for your collective mathematical edification, and in memory of Michael Jackson, a rather silly skit [...]
Read the whole postPythagorean Punning
Courtesy of Miazagora’s Homeschool Minutes, a fantastically bad geometry pun. The wives of three English country gentlemen all became pregnant at about the same time. Two of these gentlemen provided the traditional cow hide as a bedcovering, while the third gentleman sent off to Africa for a hippopotamus skin to use as a bed covering [...]
Read the whole postWin a Free Maths-Whizz Subcription with Mumsnet
Mumsnet, the hugely popular website for expecting mothers, new mothers and mothers with young children, has featured Maths-Whizz on this week’s competition page! Mumsnetters, as the site’s visitors and members are known, can win one of three Maths-Whizz Tutoring Plus annual subscriptions, worth £99.99 each. Visit the Mumsnet competitions page for details of how to [...]
Read the whole postThe Hills are Alive to the Sound of Maths-Whizz
The Cumbrian Whitehaven News reported yesterday on some exciting improvements to local schools, courtesy of funding from the South Whitehaven Neighbourhood Management Partnership. The money was used to buy tools to improve standards in literacy and numeracy. Hensingham Primary School, in particular, used the money to subscribe to Maths-Whizz Tutoring for Schools. Pupils now… …carry [...]
Read the whole postJumpin’ Jack Maths
Here’s a simple idea, reported by The Bolton News, that marries maths and mucking about: A human-sized 100-grid in the playground. The Bolton news story notes that Blackshaw Primary School’s huge playground grid will challenge mind and body, and boost social skills. It’s a nice example of joined-up thinking at a school and it will [...]
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