Writting Mathematical Questions

A while ago we have asked people on Facebook about one of those calculations questions that involves the order of operations. We are always curious what people think about this type of questions. Check out the post and the comments if you want to find out more: https://www.facebook.com/lthmath/photos/a.667617449933995/3615472308481813/ This is a type of question that...

Introduction to Solving Equations | Algebra | LThMath

Solving equations is an important aspect of understanding algebra and many other topics in mathematics. In this video I am looking at the order of operations and how understanding them helps us understand how to solve equations. https://youtu.be/AKOZCEHBx9Q This is the first video in a series of videos that will focus on solving equations. We...

First Week of School

School started on 15th August in Scotland and on that day I have also started my first year of Secondary Teacher. I think you can imagine how nervous I was on that day and how scared I was about everything. Now that the second week is starting tomorrow, I cannot say that I am better,...

Transform your holiday into a Maths – Camp

Recently I have posted about my holiday to Romania and what I have visited there. During that journey I have thought at different things that could have transformed it into a maths related one. I feel that every holiday could become a maths-camp if you can find the right questions and use your creativity and...

A Probability Moment

I was never extremely good at probability, but I got to teach a little bit of it in the past days. It wasn't something extremely and I haven't done any extremely special lessons, but they have opened my curiosity for searching for a couple of interesting problems. So, I thought I will write about 2...

Learn to be a Teacher part 8

Some time passed since I last posted a post on my experience in school during my Masters (PGDE) and I thought that it is time I do some reflection on one of my lessons and share it with you all. For this one, I won't be talking about one of those great lessons, but one...

What can you do with a Maths Degree?

In the last couple of weeks I have been asked a lot about what exactly someone could do with a mathematics degree. I tried my best to explain how beautiful mathematics is and how rewarding it is to have a degree in maths, but then I thought that it would be a great idea to...

How you behave when you don’t know?

Last week I have shared on Facebook an old post of mine: a quote (anonymous unfortunately) on what good mathematics really means. This is one of all time quotes on mathematics, but I was incredibly surprised by the huge number of reactions I have received and also a great number of comments and messages about...

Reading Math before going to Sleep

Hope everyone has a great Easter. Today I wanted to recommend a book - a math book, of course. It is a book I have finished reading a while ago, but I didn't review it. I am talking about "The Bedside Book of Algebra" by Michael Willers. First of all algebra was and still is one of...

My Normal Friday

I thought it would be quite fun if I will show you what I do in a normal Friday. So yesterday I have took notes and photos of different things that happened during the day. I hope you will like it. Mornings always start around 6 - 6:30 while I have my placement. Most of...