Smiled at the recent article in The Times by Matthew Syed (which I have included below) as it recalled the late 1990’s when I was running a Training Company and went to the Professional Football Association, the Professional Cricket Association, … Read the rest
Came across this photo of the 1984 visit by the Duchess of Kent to Barlaston School. Particularly like the way the children are totally engrossed in the game and are not at all phased by their visitor, who in … Read the rest
Interesting article on the But Is It On The Test blog regarding the philosophy, culture and context of Singapore Maths and how it has transformed the status of Maths education in the country from mid table mediocrity in 1983 to … Read the rest
Interesting how instrumental the Remedial Education article became.
In the early 1960’s John was featured in the Hull Daily Mail demonstrating the use of CCTV (Educational TV Service) in a lesson on Motion Geometry, showing children dynamically playing. … Read the rest
Published in 1993 in the Mathematics Teaching Conference Report the article discussed the value of ‘good games’ being introduced into the mathematics curriculum, and used two of our games as examples: Race Track and World Series Golf.
The premise … Read the rest
Published in 1968 (Volume 3, Number 1) Remedial Education: Journal of the National Association for Remedial Education.
The article revisited an old friend The Human Computer (1963) and looked once again at the importance of Binary in understanding mathematics, specifically … Read the rest