Category Archives: Thoughts

FONT TALK

On of my fields of interest is typefaces. It comes from my dad working as a typesetter when I was a kid, and a general interest in design. From a young age my dad always drilled into me a hatred of Comic Sans.  I think of it in the same way a Liverpool fan would… Read More »

Gamification

I was playing a game on my Xbox the other day when I suddenly realised that I was not playing for fun. I was playing for work. Let me explain.

Why Maths Is Different

The current Mathematics GCSE is quite a difficult subject to learn and a very difficult subject to teach, but I often feel that people don’t quite appreciate the subtleties of why this is. The subject is broken up into lots of different, discrete skills (sometimes these skills are related to other skills, sometimes they’re not)… Read More »