Educating MrMattock

The 1% club is one of my favourite quiz shows. It is the only quiz show I have actually applied to be on (no success unfortunately) but I pl...

 In writing my new book 'Practising Maths' I referenced a lovely result (you will have to buy it to see how) that sums such as 1 + 2...

I have a somewhat quirky morning routine. I think it started as a way to occupy my mind during my morning commute. I don’t drive a car and s...

As we all know by now (in England anyway) the new GCSE in maths is going to require pupils to make links between areas of maths, and challe...

Walking around my department towards the middle of last week (which I try and do whenever I get the chance, which unfortunately is not as o...

This week my new GCSE class will get their first taster of one of my favourite activities, the UKMT inspired team challenge. I find this so...

I am sure many of us have been following the growing migrant crisis affecting, in particular, the Mediterranean region. The number of death...

Venn diagrams...one of those topics sorely missed when removed from the curriculum, and a topic whose reintroduction to the GCSE was welcom...

A while since my last post I know - a well earned break following the end of the school year (which for Leicestershire was the 10th of July...

A couple of nights ago some may remember that I put up on the twitter chat #mathstlp that I was teaching bar charts to Year 9 bottom set an...

A few days ago we were talking on one of the twitter chats about hypothesis testing and I alluded to a fun introduction to the topic I had ...

Recently I have been planning a lesson on the classic exam situation of completing a partially complete two-way table, such as this one: ...

Ok, so honestly I haven't done this one yet, but it occurred to me whilst doing writing down probability with Year 7 today. Admittedly ...

Just a quick post today - spent most of yesterday planning for teaching pie charts to Year 8 this week (set 4 of 5 in that half of the year...

My 2ic did a resource trawl recently looking for questions linking pie charts with algebra. Unfortunately his search came up rather bare, s...

One of my favourite resources over the last few years has been the Polydron frameworks Geometry set. When I took my first HOD role one ...

A little while ago I blogged about an experience I had had with Year 7 top set on forming and solving equations, particularly with regards...