Colin Foster's Mathematics Education Blog

Are there any 'boring' topics in mathematics? Understandably, mathematics teachers tend to be kind of professionally committed to th...

I am always on the lookout for 'real-life' mathematics that is of potential relevance and interest to students but where the mathema...

Does anyone teach lines of best fit 'properly' in lower secondary school? I think whenever I’ve seen this concept taught, or taught ...

Optical illusions are almost universally intriguing. Young children can completely get them, but they can fascinate adults too. There is som...

So many ideas in probability are really quite unintuitive. How can we help learners make better sense of how simple probabilities combine, w...

Times tables can be a controversial subject. Can we help students to learn their tables in ways that promote conceptual understanding? This ...

Do contexts help students to understand mathematics or do they just make it harder for them to untangle the mathematics from all the extrane...