With fortuitous good timing, the day after the #CurriculumReview I have an article in the latest issue of the journal Teaching Shakespeare about building links between maths, Shakespeare and Elizabethan History www.britishshakespeare.ws/wp-content/u...

With fortuitous good timing, the day after the #CurriculumReview I have an article in the latest issue of the journal Teaching Shakespeare about building links between maths, Shakespeare and Elizabethan History www.britishshakespeare.ws/wp-content/u...

It turns out Zohran Mamdani is a cricket fan. "He credits cricket with teaching him about unity and how like-minded people can turn rhetoric into reality". sports.ndtv.com/cricket/the-...

It looks like the curriculum review might bring an end to the grammatical term 'fronted adverbial' which seems to have been invented in 2014. Here's the rant I posted about it the day I first heard it 🙂: robeastaway.com/blog/fronted...

ENGLISH TEACHERS! A bursary of up to £1,000 is available for your dept! On 11th Dec I'm putting on my Y10/11 Much Ado show about Shakespeare numeracy and Elizabethan History at Rose Theatre in Kingston-upon-Thames. mathsinspiration.com/much-ado-aut... emailATrobeastawayDOTcom for bursary details

BREAKING NEWS! - The final line up has been announced for the Maths Week England Launch event at MathsWorld, London on Saturday 15th November. An entire day of talks, stalls and mathsy activities - come and join in the fun, you won’t want to miss out. AND - be part of a world record breaking attempt

A handy guide to the 6-7 meme that has become a global phenomenon edition.cnn.com/2025/10/18/u...

Excitingly, Today's the opening day of MathsWorld, the new hands-on maths museum in London. I've really enjoyed visiting MathsCity in Leeds, but they've now got a London location too! Details at mathsworld.com

I'm talking 'Much Ado About Numbers' at the Guildford book festival this evening, 8pm www.guildfordbookfestival.co.uk/rob-eastaway

"England have their best chance of winning the World Cup since 1970." Hang on - until 1998 there were only 16-24 teams taking part. In 2026 there will be 48. England's odds are surely longer now than they were in (say) 1990. theguardian.com/football/202... .

A reminder that if you are a primary or secondary school in Southwark, my in-school talks are always free - including short CPD sessions. Details of talks here: robeastaway.com/talks-and-ra...

New blog post! AMR with @jennyrohn.bsky.social, Jane Goodall and John Searle, Ig Nobels, @mathsworld.com with @robeastaway.bsky.social, science and poetry with @samillingworth.com, and The Science Show begins on @resonancefm.bsky.social I think you should read it! tinyurl.com/PubSci-blog-...

I'm looking forward to Inside Maths again! Maths enrichment day, 9 Feb 2026, for year 5 and their teachers, at the Ri, London. Featuring @robeastaway.bsky.social and Fran Watson, hands-on activity and puzzles. Feedback from last year: insidemaths.co.uk/feedback Book here: insidemaths.co.uk/booking

Looking forward to #MathsConf39 on Saturday 11th. My session might be the only one that features Baywatch, Treasure Island and crocodiles, but who knows?

Great to see that @teakayb.mathsy.space is doing a session on history of maths at tomorrow’s #mathsconf39 - such an important and neglected topic.

Rounding off today’s panels with @aqaeducation.bsky.social We're joined by @robeastaway.bsky.social, Sarah Porretta (@youngenterprise.bsky.social), Baroness Spielman, and @schwitzer.bsky.social to discuss what’s needed from the curriculum and assessment system to help every child excel in maths.

Looking forward to #MathsConf39 on Saturday 11th. My session might be the only one that features Baywatch, Treasure Island and crocodiles, but who knows?

Join @robeastaway.bsky.social and our math friends from the Cuboid Math Museum in Kyiv, Ukraine, on Wednesday, October 1, at 11 a.m. EDT. We'll gather online for an interactive teacher workshop about math & stories. Register: naturalmath.com/math-maker-n... #iTeachMath #MTBoS #MathSky #MathMakers

Yesterday I visited a Lancashire school who hosted a Year 10 Maths-History-Shakespeare day. It included quizzes, a talk and a 45 minute team DT challenge to build a cardboard replica of The Globe. This was the winner. @englishassociation.bsky.social @histassoc.bsky.social @mathematicala.bsky.social

Exciting news: our two Cambridge shows on 10th December feature @oliverdunk.com who works for Google. A chance for your Y11/12s to discover what's happening at the cutting edge of AI technology. Book here: mathsinspiration.com @cambridgemathshub.bsky.social

Dahlias - the flowers that keep on giving #StillSummer

Today it's sunny AND windy in the UK, and 80% of the UK's energy is currently coming from renewables. #GoodNews

Chuffed to see that my Much Ado pub talk this Wednesday is listed by the excellent @ianvisits.co.uk as one of London's Top Events that day. I'll do my best to live up to the billing. www.ianvisits.co.uk/calendar/dat...

I'll be making Much Ado about Shakespearean numbers at the King's Head near London Bridge, 7pm on 17th Sept. Booking details below.

How to give circle theorems an Art Attack robeastaway.com/blog/art-att...

Shakespeare opened Henry V with some maths. Laurence Olivier and Kenneth Branagh both cut it. Coincidence? Or a cultural fear of numbers? A new blog post www.robeastaway.com/blog/henry-v

MATHS TEACHERS: If you’re seeking ways to add quirky ‘real world’ maths to lessons next year I’ve updated my blog index robeastaway.com/blog/blog-in... . You can use it to find odd applications of (say) quadratic equations. It’s the sort of thing you might use as a lesson starter (1/3) #TMiP25

I'll be doing Much Ado talks at three book festivals this autumn, all on Sundays: * APPLEDORE (Devon) - 14th September appledorebookfestival.co.uk * BURFORD (nr Oxford) - 28th September burfordlitfest.co.uk * GUILDFORD - 19th October www.guildfordbookfestival.co.uk

If you believe in building links across the curriculum, and in the joy of learning without needing to be graded for it, 'Exam Nation' is an excellent and refreshing read.

Surprised to see the Guardian using a rather niche cricket metaphor (‘roll the pitch’) in its lead headline www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Hopelessly behind on this, so… 10) Much Ado About Numbers - @robeastaway.bsky.social Very enjoyable tour of Shakespeare’s relationship with maths. Particularly enjoyed the dig at people who think they’ve found ~secret messages~ in his work.

Yesterday I spent a fascinating morning talking maths with a group of GPs. All professions require some level of numeracy, but doctors face particular challenges when communicating mathematical ideas. I've written up a short blog: robeastaway.com/blog/gp-maths

India's captain has called the toss incorrectly 15 times in a row. What are the chances? 1 in 2^15, that's 1 in 32,768. Surely this is the worst run of luck in cricket history. #ENGvsIND

Well done to Colin Beveridge for spotting the #AnagramOfTheYear: Sarina Wiegman = 'I win as manager'

I'll be doing Much Ado talks at three book festivals this autumn, all on Sundays: * APPLEDORE (Devon) - 14th September appledorebookfestival.co.uk * BURFORD (nr Oxford) - 28th September burfordlitfest.co.uk * GUILDFORD - 19th October www.guildfordbookfestival.co.uk

Here's the penalty shootout maths that #LucyBronze was talking about: robeastaway.com/blog/penalty...

Aiming straight - a greatly under-used ploy in penalty taking. #SWEENG

Here's a statistical mystery. When you compile the exam marks for a large group of students, they always follow a smooth bell curve, so you'd expect grades to do the same. But in 2024 in English GCSE they didn't. The chart dips at grade 4 and spikes at 3 (which some call 'fail'). Explain.

I’ve often used WeTransfer in the past but will now stop doing so.

So excited - I've been wanting to do 'Much Ado' at The Rose for ages, perfect venue for it.

@roseplayhouse.bsky.social @englishassociation.bsky.social @mathematicala.bsky.social

So excited - I've been wanting to do 'Much Ado' at The Rose for ages, perfect venue for it.

Wondering how to get your Year 9s/10s/12s engaged in the final weeks of term? We still have seats available for the afternoon show in Dulwich - and we can make some of them FREE for you even if you aren't in Southwark.

I attended a wonderful talk by @michaelrosenyes.bsky.social at the @englishassociation.bsky.social conference this morning - he has a unique ability to make poetry enjoyable and accessible to everyone. Lots of ideas that would resonate with those trying to teach and communicate maths.

This is the Ronseal* of road names. *does what it says on the tin.

Prettiest walk to a maths teacher conference that I can recall. This is Lincoln cathedral which was once the tallest man made structure in the world.

Another quiz question. Which American President (to be) ended a campaign speech saying: "If you have ever studied geometry, you remember that by a course of reasoning Euclid proves that all the angles in a triangle are equal to two right angles." (No, it wasn't Trump).

Quiz- Who said:"I was their math teacher. I had on my suit and tie. And I started putting triangles on the blackboard. I never said, “Yes I'm the guy who gave you [song name].” I told them that on the last day of class I’d answer questions about my show business life. But we were there for geometry.

Can you imagine them doing GCSE maths on the Radio 1 breakfast show? Amazingly in 2008 it happened. Every morning for one week Chris Moyles set a maths question for his co-presenters, and he made it engaging. Here's an example: dl3.chrismoyles.net/mw/funny-bit...

It's TEN YEARS since a GCSE question about Hannah's Sweets ridiculously became headline news. Here's Andrew Jeffrey on Sky TV: www.youtube.com/watch?v=cj5G...