Tag: Maths education
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Strategies you can count on to reconnect your students with maths
Maths can be a polarising subject – students either love it or hate it. But this line has become somewhat blurred in 2020 with the necessity of remote learning and a whole new approach to how we teach and engage students.
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Maths for Everyone: Why there is no such thing as a ‘maths person’
‘I’m not a maths person.’ That’s a statement you’ve all probably heard many times. However, the skills that students learn in mathematics are among the most practical taught in school. Mathematics underpins the world we live in and it teaches our children valuable problem-solving skills. Mathematics provides us with a language to explain much of…
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Q&A with award-winning maths lecturer, Daniel Mansfield
It took being laughed at during class for Daniel Mansfield to set his mind to improve his maths skills. Starting out as a good student, he became an excellent one to prove his teacher wrong. Mansfield went on to achieve a PhD in mathematics and to be named ‘Most Inspiring Lecturer in First Year’. Can…