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Osmosis, meditation and hypnosis: What is the best way to revise? Revision time is an important part of the year for budding mathematicians (as well as budding historians, physicists and students of any other discipline). Pupils all over the world are now working towards exams that often take place in the early summer. GCSE and IGCSE exams are sat in the many countries across the world as well as in the UK. Schools in Hong Kong, Switzerland, the UAE, Brazil and Cyprus (just to name a few) will be joining those in the UK getting ready for exams. The question I want to look at today is how these pupils should revise for their exams. There are many books and web pages (not mention advice from t... [More]

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Why do we keep hearing acronyms like STEM subjects? Why are the Maths results for a school so important in how it is ranked? Why is the government cutting university spending on Maths and other key subjects by a fraction of the cuts to film studies?Here are a few suggested answers: Jobs (getting a well paid job or just a job full stop!) It is the queen of the sciences and helps us in so many other subjects from Physics and Medicine to Computer Science and Economics So you can manage your personal financesPlease feel free to add your own reasons here…. Homer might say (or rather I might suggest to him): Well your car wouldn’t work Your new HD TV (ok any ... [More]

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