On
#NationalBiscuitDay
did you know that Leibniz
#biscuits
are named after philosopher &
#mathematician
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, a famous resident of Hanover, where the Bahlsen company is based? Apparently there was a fashion of naming food products after historical celebrities
Our first
#MEIChristmas
classroom activity comes from
@SarahDenisonMEI
, our Maths Education Support Specialist.
"I loved doing some crafts with my classes and origami was always a winner. These origami tree cards look fabulous and are super easy!"
🎄🎄🎄
#CalculatorCrunch
is coming!
Mark your calendars: from 10–20 June, we'll post daily questions designed to develop important calculator skills for KS2–3 transition.
Get Year 6s calculator-ready or give extra practice to KS3 students – our fun & free summer challenge is for all!
Calculators at the ready! Our annual Calculator Crunch challenge for Year 6 & 7 pupils returns on 19-23 June.
This year's challenge will feature our 'greatest hits' problems from the past 4 years!
#CalculatorCrunch
Welcome to Calculator Crunch 2020! Can your Year 6 and 7s make their calculator laugh in today's puzzle?
Join the action by sharing photos & tweeting
#CalculatorCrunch
, we'd love to see young mathematicians taking on the challenges!
3 days until
#CalculatorCrunch
!
On each weekday from 15-25 June we will tweet an engaging question for Year 6 & 7 aged children, that all involve using a calculator. The questions are designed to deepen children’s mathematical thinking skills in a fun way.
We’re excited to announce the launch of MEI Deeper Maths, a new suite of resources designed to support excellent practice in the teaching of secondary maths to all students.
The first two sets of resources (Angles and Trigonometry) are now available.
Thank you for attending this year’s virtual
#MEIConf2020
, we hope you’ve found it enjoyable and worthwhile.
We look forward to seeing you all in person at next year’s MEI Conference on the 1-3 July. Make sure you save the date!
We’re replacing MEI’s annual three-day conference, due to take place on 2-4 July at the University of Bath, with a smaller free online virtual conference. Details are yet to be confirmed. Join our mailing list if you’d like to stay informed: .
We’ve just released a fantastic set of free interactive online classroom activities to support maths recovery at Key Stage 3.
The resources are available on GeoGebra and focus on algebra, with more topics to be added in the coming months.
Happy
#InternationalWomensDay
To celebrate, we are going to be highlighting the work of some incredible female mathematicians throughout history.
Firstly, the inspiring Katherine Johnson.
We are excited to announce that from today on wards we will be posting a
#MathsMonday
problem every week, to get your brains in gear for the week ahead! Here is today's problem!
#MathsWeekEngland
We've made it easier to access our free FM Videos - over 1200 of them! They're each 5-10 mins long and are designed to introduce students to concepts in Further
#Maths
and allow them to work though examples. Head to to find them
#TeachAtHome
#TeachOnline
Have you see this Timeline of
#Mathematics
on the
@MathigonOrg
website?
Each mathematician featured has a pop-up short biography and a link to a page explaining the
#maths
for which they are famous.
See screengrabs below 👇
We’re planning to provide additional support for teachers and students, should it be necessary for schools and colleges to close. We will publish further details early next week.
#COVID19
RITANGLE RETURNS!
We're excited to announce that Ritangle will return this year, beginning on 2 October!
Head on over to our website to find all the details of this year's competition:
It's Crunch Time! Here's Day 1 of
#CalculatorCrunch
💙
Task your Year 6s or KS3 students with our fun problems to prepare them for the secondary curriculum 🧮
Join the action by sharing photos & tweeting
#CalculatorCrunch
– we love to see eager young mathematicians in action!
MEI has developed a new course to introduce A level Mathematics students and their teachers to data science with support from Arm, the world’s leading semiconductor IP company.
JOB VACANCY - MEI Mathematics Education Support Leader
We're looking for a new member of our team who will work with MEI colleagues to develop resources, deliver services, and coordinate activities to improve mathematics education in England.
Interested in being part of a trial with
@mathstechnology
?
MEI is currently producing a set of resources & practice test that utilise the functionality of
@GeoGebra
graphing calculator in exam mode app to help students in their understanding of maths
See
We're looking for a Maths Education Support Specialist to join our team.
The role involves working with MEI colleagues to develop resources, deliver training to teachers, and coordinate activities to improve mathematics education in England.
PUBLISHED TODAY: A report by MEI proposes a new maths GCSE curriculum for post-16 resit students, aiming to break the demoralising resit cycle
Will these recommendations be taken up?
Read the report here: Funded by
@NuffieldFound
.
#GCSEmathsresit
A truly inspirational talk from Dr Nira Chamberlain today at the Black Heroes of Mathematics conference
#BlackHeroesMaths
.
Please share it with your students
Welcome to Calculator Crunch 2021 🥳
Here's the puzzle for
#Day1
!
Don't forget to let us know you're getting involved by using the hashtag
#CalculatorCrunch
We’ve got some exciting news…
#CalculatorCrunch
is returning on Monday 21 June!
The popular challenge is designed to encourage pupils in Years 6 & 7 and their teachers to get the calculators out of the cupboard and have some fun!
Find out more here:
It's
#NationalRefillDay
"It is estimated that 2.5bn takeaway coffee cups are thrown away every year in the UK, and they are practically impossible to recycle." (
@Claerb
@FT
)
How much money can you save by using a reusable coffee cup?
#CoreMaths
MEI has launched a free online course for teachers to support their students in attaining an A* in
#AlevelMaths
.
This is being offered as part of
@imperialcollege
’s mA*ths programme, and is freely available as an
@Advanced_Maths
#ODPD
course.
Read more:
Register now for
#MEIConf2021
! 🥳
9-10 July
32 thought-provoking
#cpd
sessions spanning KS2-5
#Maths
, with two world-class plenaries thrown on top.
Oh... and you can attend for free! 😮
Book your place and find out more:
'When mathematics meets art: the story of Escher and Coxeter'
#MEIConf2018
plenary from Sarah Hart, Prof of
#Mathematics
at Birkbeck College, University of London; Head of the Department of Economics, Mathematics & Statistics.
See
@MEIConference
website:
Now available - set of 5 videos aimed at encouraging teachers to use practical activities in A level
#mechanics
teaching.
Practicals use basic, readily-available equipment. Teacher notes included.
See
@IETFaraday
& MEI websites:
NEW REPORT: ‘A new maths GCSE curriculum for post-16 resit students’ will be published by MEI on 24 January. This work was funded by
@NuffieldFound
.
#GCSEmathsresit
Our full set of GeoGebra activities for KS3 are now available!
Each unit includes a series of lessons comprising of a
@geogebra
activity for use during the lesson and an activity suitable for independent student learning.
“There are many misconceptions about
#maths
including that it’s all about numbers, equations and formulae, about getting the right answer, that it’s black and white, and all just right or wrong,” says
@DrEugeniaCheng
in this
@WomanthologyUK
article
We’ve been thinking about the future of assessment in maths and have just published a paper to encourage informed discussion around how the current system might be improved:
(1/2)
Day 2 of
#CalculatorCrunch
💙
Remember to explore our fantastic free 'extras', including lesson plans for Year 6 & 7s, certificate templates for participants, and our amazing calculator prize draw! 👉
Earlier this summer we ran
#CalculatorCrunch
, a challenge to familiarise KS2 & 3 students with the basic functions of scientific calculators.
We were thrilled with its reception & we're hoping to run it again!
You can access 2019's resources for FREE at
@mathsjem
Really interesting read Jo! With reference to the latter part of your post, did you know about our upcoming
#CalculatorCrunch
challenge for Y6 & 7?
It will be supported with 2 free lesson plans – 1 for Y6, 1 for Y7 students as extra practice
More detail at
David Spiegelhalter (
@d_spiegel
) will speak live at
#MEIConf2020
on the need for a new approach to statistics education to reveal the true power of statistical science.
#Maths
teachers - have you signed up for Simon Singh’s weekly maths puzzle sheets for keen students in Years 7-9?
They are all free –– fun, interesting and challenging maths!
Puzzles ('Parallelograms') are published on a Thursday & solutions on a Sunday
"On avg we consume 2 pancakes per person on
#PancakeDay
, which means that approx 117 million pancakes will be made in UK households
This requires enough milk to fill more than 93 Olympic swimming pools and almost 13 million kilos of plain flour"
#CoreMaths
Get the date in your diary, Ritangle returns on 3 October!
@Integral_Maths
's exciting competition for A level students is back, will you be this year's champion? 🏆
Welcome to Calculator Crunch 2022 🥳
Here's the puzzle for Day 1! It's time to bee creative! 🐝
Don't forget to let us know you're getting involved by using the hashtag
#CalculatorCrunch
It's the final day of
#CalculatorCrunch
! 💙💙💙
It's been A-MAZE-ING to see all your crunching efforts 😍 We hope this has been a fun way to familiarise young people with using calculators!
You can still enter our prize draw until the end of the day 👉
We’re seeking to recruit a new MEI Level 3 Mathematics Programme Director.
This is a senior leadership post with responsibility for leading the AMSP (
@Advanced_Maths
) and contributing to the strategic leadership of MEI.
Our family of Sumaze! apps has proved very useful in engaging students with maths, especially those who are
#homelearning
.
We've therefore decided to make all four of them FREE from 9 November - ready to use during
#MathsWeekEngland
and beyond!
We are really excited about the launch of these resources from Oak National Academy.
MEI is proud to have been a part of this project, developing a full curriculum package for maths across Key Stages 1 to 4
Some
#WednesdayWisdom
- if you weren't already aware of the resources that we developed with
@TheIET
for
@IETFaraday
check them out at:
For starters here's a
#Maths
Equations poster, highlighting various maths equations & formulae:
Welcome to Calculator Crunch 2023! 🥳
Here's the puzzle for Day 1! Can you ring the bell? 🔔
Don't forget to let us know you're getting involved by using the hashtag
#CalculatorCrunch
Our June Maths Item of the Month is an
@MEIConference
#MIOTM
A couple of taster problems that featured in
#MEIConf2017
sessions:
Squaring the circle and other shapes
The history of logarithms
Resources:
Our newest staff member says if you don’t join us in the Westminster Theatre at 5:40 for our Digging for the why live podcast recording he might eat you!
#MEIConf23
May 12 is dedicated to celebrating
#WomeninMaths
Why
#May12
?
It’s the birthdate of inspirational mathematician Maryam Mirzakhani, who was one of the world’s leading experts in geometry and dynamical systems.
Find out more about
#May12WIM
& Maryam here:
We're excited to announce that this year's Calculator Crunch will begin one week today!
If you're too excited to wait, you can start using our excellent free resources now. There's also the chance to win some fantastic Casio scientific calculators!
"It is very encouraging to see the continuing growth in entries & passes for
#CoreMaths
qualifications. Students...have gained valuable skills for understanding the quantitative aspects of their future studies, work and lives."
Stella Dudzic, MEI
UPDATED: