May 2015

I have to say I was quite cross when I came across a newspaper article criticising Serbia's Countdown equivalent of our Rachel Riley when she made a simple maths mistake on live TV. This negativity towards maths and the ridiculing of mistakes, severely knocks people's confidence, working completely against everything 123maths stands...

I'm not sure if I could quite get to grips with telling the time on this latest invention, but it is quite stylish. Philippe Chrétien from Canada deduced you could use the first five numbers from the Fibonacci sequence to represent a clock, as these are all you need to express all...

We came across this interesting study about classroom design.  We were struck by what the report concludes does make a difference to learning, and what doesn't. Classroom Design - How much difference does it make? The new study has shown that the physical characteristics of primary schools affect the progress of students in reading, writing,...