About

Name: Nik

Where: Hampshire, UK

Teaches: Sixth Form (16-19)

Spirit Animal: Honey Badger

Hero: Grand Admiral Thrawn

Superpower: Sarcasm

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Jake Byrnes says:

February 18, 2014 at 21:39

Dear Nik,
As a proponent of math education in the United States, we need your help to promote our nationwide math competition by blogging or posting about it on your blog/forum.

As you probably already know, despite the fact that the US spends the most money on education per capita, our students are ranked 25th globally for math proficiency. The MATHCOUNTS Foundation is a nonprofit dedicated to improving that statistic. MATHCOUNTS’ third annual “ Math Video Challenge” is a math competition for 6th to 8th graders that encourages student innovation as they create and star in their own math videos, thus exciting them to pursue higher education in math.

As the webmaster of Maths is Not a Spectator Sport, we are asking you to help support this effort by mentioning us in your next blog or forum post or promoting our logo with a link to the site. So far this contest has gathered over 500
submissions and millions of views on the videos. Our goal this year is this year is to do even better. With your help, we are confident we will reach this goal.

For more information on MATHCOUNTS or the Math Video Challenge, visit our webpages at mathcounts.org and videochallenge.mathcounts.org/math-camera-action.

Respectfully,
Jake Byrnes

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- nik_d_maths says:
  
  February 18, 2014 at 23:53
  
  Hi Jake, Unfortunately I don’t teach in the US; though I hear good things about your product from friends. Good Luck!
  
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Ishan says:

May 25, 2015 at 15:58

Hey Nik,

Hope you’re having a great day!

I’m doing an expert roundup on my site and I think many new Math teachers using education technology products in their classroom like me would love to know your answer to this question :

If you could only use 3 Education technology tools/apps/sites for your teaching which 3 tools would you choose? e.g. WolframAlpha, KhanAcademy and Inside Mathematics.

Thanks in advance!

As soon as I’m done compiling the results, I would inform and link back to your blog.

Thank you!
Ishan

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