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Mean, median, mode and range – a Standards Unit activity
George Lane has taught maths at Entry level, GCSE and A level in FE for 14 years. Before that he taught in 6th form colleges for a few years and in a secondary school for 5 years. He has a BSc (Hons) in Mechanical Engineering and a PGCE in secondary maths. He particularly enjoyed using the Standards Unit materials for teaching adult students foundation GCSE maths in evening classes.
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A starter - the Swedish Number Game
For over a decade, Tom McCormick has taught students resitting GCSE and Functional Skills Maths in various colleges across the UK, in roles such as Lecturer, Program Lead, and Curriculum Lead. He is also currently undertaking his MPhil Education Research, looking at engaging the neurodiverse classroom with resit maths.
Non-mathematical starters
Despoina Boli has over 12 years of experience teaching mathematics and has spent the last 7 years working at a central London Further Education college, where her focus has been on resit learners. For the past two years, she has been the curriculum manager for Functional Skills and GCSE mathematics. Her studies in mathematics education and current role have given her the opportunity to concentrate more on designing a more effective curriculum tailored to the needs of resit learners. In addition to her teaching and managerial responsibilities, she collaborates closely with Further Education teachers and managers, as a coach or mentor, aiding them in developing their teaching practices and the design of their mathematics curriculum.
Despoina is now the Maths CPD Manager for the charity Get Further which helps FE students achieve gateway English and Maths qualifications.
Three sessions that worked for me
After graduation Andrew Davies spent 6 years in industry and then took his PGCE at University of Leicester, followed by further studies in Mathematics Education with the Univ. of Exeter. He taught Mathematics in the secondary sector for two number of years. After that he spent a number of years teaching mathematics to young offenders within the secure estate. From 2001 until retiring in 2023 he was a Mathematics Lecturer in F.E. Colleges within Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire, such as Derby College and Broxtowe College, teaching both 16-19 year old and mature students ranging from Level 2 who were studying Mathematics courses between level2 and level 5.
Andrew is a Chartered Mathematics teacher and a Fellow of the Institute of Mathematics (FIMA). Nationally he has been involved as a committee member (latterly a trustee) for NANAMIC for 15 years. He was also for a number of years a member of the Outer Circle of ACME. Andrew is now a member of the JMC and of Ilkeston U£A mathematics group. Andrew has recently been awarded Lifetime Membership by NANAMIC.
Creating GCSE Maths revision cards
Bernadette Evans has been teaching maths to adults since 1999 - as well as other related roles such as delivering training, writing quizzes and creating video content for Functional Skills maths. When teaching, Bernadette likes to hand matters over to the learners so they can take responsibility for their learning, support each other and occasionally expose those very useful misconceptions. It is also important for her to try out different methods in order to keep her own interest in the role alive.