Be honest, how many of you have developed a new hobby during lockdown? I know I have enjoyed gardening, and one of my friends has been baking the most amazing cakes. Some have taken up knitting or crochet, and others have been taking greater pleasure in the puzzle pages of the daily newspaper (guilty as charged, I love a good […]
Each day during periods of national lockdown, the government does a briefing in which we are presented with the most recent figures and statistics. Gut instinct says we should believe information when it is presented to us in a graph, so I’ve found some stats and graphs to make you question everything! Correlation does not equal Causation We have seen […]
Throughout history, school closures are rare. I remember when I was young, we got a day off because the school boiler had broken and they didn’t have enough heaters for all the classrooms. We also used to get about 2 snow days a year, although in recent years this has not been the case, with the exception of the Beast […]
Liz from Skills4Parents talks about how maths has been used during the pandemic
During the Covid-19 pandemic we have probably all become more aware of the importance of understanding Statistics and Probability. The news is full of graphs, different statistics have been used to argue that we are doing well and not doing well. Understanding this topic can help in detecting whether we are being misled. “There are three kinds of lies: lies, […]
Today we meet Sophie Breslin. Sophie is an amazing woman, she’s a Mechanical Engineer who runs her own business and has worked with multi-billion pound retail companies and now works with ambitious SMEs to move them to the next level with automation. Her website describes her as ‘tenacious, focused on tangible results and motivated to achieve excellence .’ Liz chatted […]
Do you ever sit there and wonder, how did we end up here? I do, regularly. When I was 14, I had my life mapped out for me. I was going to be a doctor, specialising in neurosurgery. The brain fascinated me, with all it’s intricacies. I didn’t realise, however, that neurology, medicine and surgery would be the thing that […]
Over the next couple of weeks we’ll be looking at some stories of people where education hasn’t gone to plan for them. I’ve been seeing social media posts about this which resonate, and we need to support those who are in exam years and feel hard done by during the pandemic. This may be a different journey to other years […]
In planning out January, I decided on the theme ‘It’ll be okay’, and over the next few weeks I’ll be telling you about various people who had problems in their education when life didn’t go as planned, and their journey since. I couldn’t have predicted the changes that would then happen after I’d written my plan, and this topic seems […]