European Junior Olympiad in Informatics (eJOI) 2026 UK Team Lead, Junior Balkan Olympiad in Informatics 2026 UK Team Lead, Dad, Husband, Maths PhD, Quant.
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Gold Medal IMO LLMs represent 9 hrs work by best pre-uni students. Showing Navier-Stokes from smooth state can blow up, is something mathematical community has been trying to resolve for 90 years (i.e. thousands of hours). A step change in capability. openai.com/index/navier-stok…
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UK Bebras and OUCC calendar updated for this academic year: bebras.uk/index.php?action=c…
Looking forward to see how well, experienced and new school students, aged 6-18, handle this year’s challenges.
If anyone has Maths/Maths&(CS/Physics/philosophy) interview coming up then Dr James Monroe at Oxford, is providing a livestream on maths interviews. @MrLDewick
maths.ox.ac.uk/study-here/un…
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Yesterday high school students took the Oxford Mathematics Admissions Test (MAT). Click the link below for the answers in 10 minutes.
If you'd rather not know the answers, we understand. Plenty of Taylor Swift videos to watch instead.
youtube.com/watch?v=ewBXNlZ8…
2022 IoM High Schools KS5 Results
At KS5 results are the raison d'être. QEII & RGS failed to publish results but got via FOI ref 2660173, see attachment. 3 HS heads published the data on school websites, see links below:
SNHS
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From family-friendly games and tinkering to after-hours adult events, there'll be something for everyone at this year's Festival.
Watch this space for Festival updates. Sign up to our newsletter to be the first to know more: bit.ly/3wfSJlG
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ALT A family watching a scientist demonstrate an experiment
Has anyone produced a back of envelope model on discounted present value of liabilities & incomes (over say 10-20years), against various inputs (avg age, size of state/tax, yield curve,...). Where are we now, and what is sustainable in the medium term?
Edexcel GCSE Maths June 2022 Mark scheme now live: (but as a tutor I do not have a password :( but only a month until results are out)
qualifications.pearson.com/e…
Computers can both check and create mathematical proofs, if you have an hour & enjoy being a mathematical tourist then you can see scientific history in the making, in the talk below (given 3 hours ago to ICM):
opade.digital/days/4/session…
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James Maynard has been awarded a Fields Medal for "remarkable results" in the study of Prime Numbers, in particular identifying how often they do (and don't) occur. Let James explain.
You can watch the full interview here:
youtube.com/watch?v=_WsZJC8K…
My (free) MAT prep course just started. Please get in touch if you are applying to Oxford or any other world class maths department requiring entrance papers (STEP, TMUA, MAT), or equally a Further Maths Student who just wants to get ahead over the Summer. maths.ox.ac.uk/study-here/un…
With entrance papers, at the start it all looks impossible, but over time with practice, it gets easier & your appreciation of underlying ideas behind questions will become clearly. As a start, have a look at these examples:
admissionstesting.org/Images…
AI package used OS (BSD license) has C++, Python, Java & MATLAB interfaces; supports Windows, Linux, Android and Mac OS.
Nicolas Hammje created this robot with Raspberry Pi and OpenCV, a Pi camera and three servo motors [source: buff.ly/3xUedG8]
Edexcel Maths H3 had no last question shocker (i.e. H1 Qu21), the trapezium trig 3D ok but not like past papers with cuboid. The 9 card probability one used a tree with 3 levels. Oh, Chic wallpaper sounds like a good deal. #edexcelmaths #gcsemaths
Feedback on Edexcel GCSE Higher Paper 2 was everything was fine, with circle theorem qu straight forward, with only quad inequality qu unusual in that had 2 quadratics i.e. find x which satisfy:
x²-49>0 and 5x²-31x-72>0
Expect high grade boundaries.
#edexcelMaths #MathsGCSE
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This weekend, I am starting a major programme of weekly FREE online maths circles. Four circles every week (Key Stages 2, 3, 4 & 5), i.e., covering ages 9 to 18. Fully interactive with chat & polls. Everyone welcome, anywhere in the world. More info at parallel.org.uk/
Tonight ITV 10.15pm has 45min documentary on non-selective school in inner city area where in 2019 25% students got 9 in GCSE Maths versus 4.5% national avg. School progress 8 is 5th nationally.
Small c conservative values for the classroom and in the home!
This doc isn’t just for teachers.
For families too.
Tonight: ITV 10:15 pm. Short 45 min version.
From tmrw, Monday, 90 min version available on producer’s website:
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