May 2015

22 May People Make Mistakes

Posted at 12:33h in Blog, Maths, Uncategorised by David Sharp

I have to say I was quite cross when I came across a newspaper article criticising Serbia's Countdown equivalent of our Rachel Riley when she made a simple maths mistake on live TV. This negativity towards maths and the ridiculing of mistakes, severely knocks people's confidence, working completely against everything 123maths stands...

18 May Fibonacci Clock

Posted at 08:48h in Blog, Maths, Uncategorised by David Sharp

I'm not sure if I could quite get to grips with telling the time on this latest invention, but it is quite stylish. Philippe Chrétien from Canada deduced you could use the first five numbers from the Fibonacci sequence to represent a clock, as these are all you need to express all...

11 May How Classroom Design affects learning

Posted at 11:22h in Blog, Maths, Teaching Maths, Uncategorised by David Sharp

We came across this interesting study about classroom design. We were struck by what the report concludes does make a difference to learning, and what doesn't. Classroom Design - How much difference does it make? The new study has shown that the physical characteristics of primary schools affect the progress of students in reading, writing,...

05 May How Much Have You Forgotten Since Leaving School?

Posted at 09:12h in Blog, Maths, Uncategorised by David Sharp

I came across a maths quiz online the other day testing what people could still remember from school. I enjoyed doing the quiz, yet it was the online comments that I found most interesting. There is a varied mix of opinions regarding maths from those who did well in the test and those who...

22 May People Make Mistakes

18 May Fibonacci Clock

11 May How Classroom Design affects learning

05 May How Much Have You Forgotten Since Leaving School?

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