Michael Penfold

Michael is an ex-Head of Maths from the UK. He first joined Mathspace in 2018, and has since worked with schools around the world; he now works primarily with international schools teaching IB/IGCSE.

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Introducing our Engage Activities for the IB: Real-world mathematics to foster inquiry and develop problem-solving skills

We believe that the right classroom structures are essential to ensuring that all students have a mathematical voice in the classroom. Our Engage Activities have been specifically designed to do just this, and we are very excited to be able to now add these to our IB textbooks for MYP and DP.

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Mathspace for the IGCSE

Following on from the release of the International Baccalaureate MYP 2-5 & DP (SL) textbooks earlier this year, the textbook authoring team here at Mathspace has now finalised and released a brand new set of three curriculum-aligned textbooks for the following IGCSE courses

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Mathspace for the International Baccalaureate (IB) Program

Mathspace has been working on a brand new set of textbooks for the International Baccalaureate and, as of the start of this year, they’ve been released into BETA for schools to test and explore. The Content Team have worked to build and align the content for the following books

Education

Teacher Workload and Adaptive Learning

How adaptive learning can help maximise the impact of feedback and reduce teacher workloadThe aim of this post is to provide a summary of some of the current research into marking and feedback to enable you to have informed discussions at your school and hopefully reach a sustainable workload for