Why Practice?

Why Practice? To accompany the release of Free Practice on TUTOR, our Maths team have put together this piece exploring the impact of practice. Allow me to introduce you to two brothers, Peter and Paul. Both want to exercise to lose weight and improve their aerobic fitness but both have very different ideas about how to meet...

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A Maths teacher asks - Volume 1

A Maths teacher asks - Volume 1 Sukhbir Singh, a mathematics teacher at Akal Academy, Baru Sahib in India, asks…How can I help the slow bloomers of my class? Thank you for your question Sukhbir. 'Slow bloomer' is not a term that I’ve ever heard or read before, so when considering my response to this, I thought about two types of pupil...

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The ‘40 Additional Hours’ for Further Education Explained

The ‘40 Additional Hours’ for Further Education Explained The feeling towards the initially welcome £1.6m uplift in funding for 16-19 education took a downturn when, just a month before many schools and colleges closed for the Summer, it was announced that the funding increase would be contingent on providing students with an additional...

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