Summer Dazed? Use Maths-Whizz!
The long summer holidays will soon be upon us. But those endless warm afternoons of childhood may conceal a hidden menace – stupidity (aka ‘summer learning loss’).
Read the whole postThe Best School Video Ever?
…A bold claim from The Daily Telegraph. So have a look and (in a Geordie voice) you decide.
But as it’s all in a good cause – raising money for the charity Cardiac Risk in the Young (CRY) – I suggest you watch, enjoy, and check out the charity’s good work.
Number lines in arithmetic
According to the Maths-Whizz Teachers’ Resource dictionary, a number line is: “a line that shows numbers ordered by magnitude from left to right, or bottom to top.” Pretty simple? Yes, and then again, no.
The number line can be a powerful beast.
Dividing Fractions – demystified
Pop quiz – what’s one half divided by one quarter? Stuck? OK, it’s 2.
“What?” I hear you cry, “But that doesn’t make sense. We’ve divided something small by another small thing, that should make an even smaller thing, surely.” And, of course, you’d be wrong.
Education News – Becta to close
For those of our UK Whizzers living under a rock, we have a new coalition government. The new government has pledged to reduce the UK’s deficit by £6bn in the short term, with further savings to follow. This amount is relatively trivial in relation to the size of the deficit, but seen by some as [...]
Read the whole postMaths Lectures from Gresham College
The God of Whizz came across the Gresham College YouTube channel earlier today, featuring some interesting clips from a lecture by cosmologist and Gresham College Geometry professor, John Barrow, on everyday maths.
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