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Research Paper: Integrating history into mathematics teaching: An empirical study on years 7 & 8 students

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Research Paper: Integrating history into mathematics teaching: An empirical study on years 7 & 8 students

A paper published by the British Journal for the History of Mathematics detailing a research project in which Jason Yip and I planned and taught a half-term’s worth of maths lessons to two classes at a Secondary School in Milton Keynes. These lessons followed the school’s usual Scheme of Work, but Jason and I included History of Maths content in every lesson.

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Are You Smarter than a Stoneage Engineer?

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Are You Smarter than a Stoneage Engineer?

I was invited as a guest onto the first episode of Teachwire Talks, hosted by Helen Mulley. The episode, Are You Smarter than a Stoneage Engineer, puts me in conversation with Dr. Jennifer Wexler, Historian at English Heritage, to discuss how the prehistoric Stonehenge site can spark powerful learning in modern STEM classrooms.

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The Mathematicians’ Library wins Chalkdust Book of the Year – TWICE!

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The Mathematicians’ Library wins Chalkdust Book of the Year – TWICE!

I am very pleased, not to mention flabbergasted, to announce that The Mathematicians’ Library won both categories: it was picked from the shortlist as the editors’ favourite, and received just shy of 50% of the Readers’ Choice votes with 236 out of 475 choosing it as their prime pick of 2025.

How to Start Exploring Maths in your Gallery, Library, Archive or Museum – a Resource for Maths Week England

How to Start Exploring Maths in your Gallery, Library, Archive or Museum – a Resource for Maths Week England

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“The resource uses a story-first approach to promote richer experiences and telltale signs that maths is nearby, and highlights things that have been found to be necessary prerequisites for creating any type of maths-focused resource.”

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The Mathematicians’ Library: The Books That Unlocked the Power of Numbers

The Mathematicians’ Library: The Books That Unlocked the Power of Numbers

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The Mathematicians’ Library: The Books That Unlocked the Power of Numbers

Far from an academic “maths book”, it is a book about maths; about the role that this most ancient of human endeavours has played in the development of humanity, and where its achievements have prompted – and been prompted by – growth in disciplines that many people in the modern world see as entirely separate.

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