But you don't count zero!
It is a curious thing that several students this year (two Year 8 and one Year 11 and all from different schools) have told me that "you...
Lego combinations
Here is something to challenge your puzzle solving curiousity! How many different ways do you think 6 eight stud lego bricks can be...
Everything is easy when you know how!
Sometimes students who have been struggling to "grasp a maths concept" suddenly say with a laugh, "Oh that's actually quite easy". I...
The Fraction Line
It is amazing how many students don't know this.......A key concept about fractions (as students get past halves, thirds and quarters) is...
ALGEBRA WORKSHOPS Term 1
One of the key topics to success in maths is Algebra and it is the one topic that seems to be a stumbling block for many students. For...
Tuition runs parallel to school topics
Tuition at The Maths Room is designed to run in parallel with school topics so that students keep up with all the aspects of a topic...
No going past pencil and paper!
With schools increasing their use of online software such as iNZight to whip up scatter plots and box & whisker graphs, or Desmos to...
Random Number Generator
Here is a post that walks you through the steps on your graphics calculator to produce randomly generated integers (whole numbers) in a...