There are a huge number of software options for delivering online tuition but I use Zoom and, in my 1-to-1 online tuition, BitPaper. I favour Zoom over Google Meet, Skype and the rest because it’s the only one I know of that allows annotation of a shared screen (by both tutor and student) and allows…
The Internet is awash with GCSE Maths resources, many of them free. Read on for key information about the course, the exam and how it’s graded, and a selection of GCSE Maths resources that will help you to get a great result. Course basics The 9-1 GCSE in Maths takes the form of three 2-hour…
Remind me again, what’s BIDMAS? If you grew up in the UK then it’s likely that you’ve been taught BIDMAS or BODMAS to help you remember the order of operations – what order you should do things in – in Maths. In other parts of the world, it’s BEDMAS or PEMDAS. (In PEMDAS, P =…
I’ve been playing with animations for the purpose of promoting my Membership Programmes. Having managed to animate a jigsaw puzzle quite successfully, I thought I’d share how I did it. I was inspired by the instructions I found at https://blogs.articulate.com/rapid-elearning/build-a-puzzle-animation/ but have taken a slightly different approach – not least because I’m using a slightly…
I’m delighted to announce the launch of my new Membership Programmes! I’m starting off with Foundation and Higher GCSE groups but will add a group for each year of the A-level course if the demand is there. For the past couple of weeks I’ve been getting to grips with WordPress and building this completely new…
Well, what a palaver! A Government U-turn on the A-level results. Very glad to hear that Ofqual has capitulated and will, after all, be awarding the centre-assessed grades (CAGs) rather than the “Computer says no” grades generated by their algorithms. This will of course be a huge relief to GCSE candidates too. Of course there…
So today was A-level results day, the day that this year’s candidates have awaited with trepidation for months now. If you got the grades you were hoping for then that’s brilliant news – congratulations and well done! If, on the other hand, your results were disappointing, you have my commiserations. However, please try not to…
If you know of anyone who’s intending to start A-level Maths this autumn then “Preparing for A-level Maths” is for them. Please share this post with them! You can see an explanatory video here: The main element of the course is almost 10 hours of specially-recorded video lessons. In fact they’ll take considerably longer than…
