Mathematics And Physics Tutor Online And In London - Dr Alex Roberts

Rob Eastaway's "Maths on the Back if an Envelope is reduced to £2.99 on the kindle at the moment!!! I'd grab it now (well I have!) https://amzn.to/2GRNPBe Here is a taster for the book in his RI talk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-_-Vg_B3n zM&t=1070s

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A beautiful and very informative interactive animation of the Hertzprung-Russell Diagram (Keep scrolling down) #physics #alevel #gcses #astronomy http://sci.esa.int/gaia-stellar-family-po rtrait/

Guest Blog on how I make use of my Hue HD Pro camera for online tutoring.

Great short film here to explain why the area model is used to teach multiplication. https://www.youtube.com/watch…

This is too true: I've had a great time reconnecting with teaching maths through Welsh with several students scattered all over the country- several of them in incredibly rural areas. This is the real magic of online tutoring! Wedi wir mwynhau dysgu mathemateg trwy'r Gymraeg eleni- ond yn phosib drwy dysgu ar-lein. https://www.thetimes.co.uk/…/45c5944e-0 e0f-11e9-aa1a-528689…

The Royal Institution Lectures are a Christmas tradition at my house: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00pmbqq

The best science long reads of 2018 from the BBC https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-enviro nment-44513768

Did I miss any "must-see" maths/physics films? http://www.onlinemathematicstutor.com/top -maths-physics-mo…/

This is a really good article, and this approach would be so incredibly useful in helping to prepare students for their numerical reasoning exams in later life. https://slate.com/…/against-teaching-ki ds-to-code-creativit…

A mathematician's lament: https://www.maa.org/external_arc…/devli n/LockhartsLament.pdf

Doing some science practicals and struggling with Excel/GoogleSheets with your data and line of best fit? Have a look at what I constructed on Desmos... input your data with their uncertainties and you get a line of best fit and the uncertainty in it's slope and y-intercept. https://www.desmos.com/calculator/otruwto zco

Breaking News!!! A new fundamental particle has been discovered.. I give you the Plain Quark... It's a little strange, has loads of charm, yet has no flavour... It'll need a lot of spin to sell it.

An important read for A-level physics students studying Astronomy: https://www.wired.com/…/how-to-measure- things-that-are-ast…/

This is an example of how I try and help students to make the link between division, fractions, and using the bus-stop method. This is more a way of remembering how to write the same division in different ways, you can see with this pattern the numbers are revolving clockwise around the vinculum (horizontal bar).

A nice simple demonstration of circular motion- and what happens when the centripetal force is removed. (source: youtube/ISLE Physics)

Whilst introducing a student to the topic of standing waves today I realised that visualising this dynamic phenomena is tricky (especially for longitudinal waves), so I went searching for an animation/GIF that better represents the motion of particles in a much better way than any of my static drawings could. Luckily, I stumbled upon this article and this great animation of a standing wave in a pipe. http://www.acs.psu.edu/drussell/…/Stand ingWaves/standing.gif
https://www.acs.psu.edu/…/…/standingw aves/standingwaves.html

A very interesting article in the New York Times- this applies as much to finding a good tutor: https://www.nytimes.com/…/college-profe ssors-experts-advice…