Stephen Hawking’s view on how to live life is to “seek the greatest value of our action”. Learn about his determination to succeed and find a theory of everything, despite all the difficulties.

Think about how lucky we all are to have functioning bodies. What would you do if you were to seek the greatest value of your action?

Don’t think Maths can be dangerous? Think again. This shows how the obsession with proving things that Maths is based upon can ruin lives. We owe so much to mathematicians who were not only undervalued, but actively tormented in their time because of what the maths told them.

The story of Fermat’s Last Theorem and how one man solved the puzzle in his darkest days. Fascinating stuff!

An amazing documentary - The Story of Maths, with our old friend Marcus De Satoy.

Khan Academy is an extraordinary site - it’s a free a way of learning Maths by practicing online.

You can watch one of thousands of videos or practice using their multiple choice questions. It’s utterly remarkable and very exciting.

You can earn badges, you get points as you improve and best of all, you can assign a coach, which means you can have someone who checks your progress. That someone could be me or a parent.

I’ll be incorporating this into my lessons beginning in the new year.

Why not go on it and have a play?

I’m a big fan of a podcast called Radiolab. It’s totally free and has hundreds of episodes, covering almost anything interesting you can imagine. If you’re curious about the world we live in at all, it’s a must listen.

In this episode, Jad and Robert delve into a topic that makes Maths even possible… numbers. It’s a doozy…

My first Higher Maths past paper walkthrough - question 21 of 2009.

“Look Around You” is hilarious. Here’s the Maths episode for your enjoyment. I was in tears with laughter and I hope you will be too!