Mathematics Teaching, March 1st, 2006
Eligio Cerval-Peña describes what happened when he decided to teach university-level mathematics to Y8.
It was whilst I was on placement doing my PGCE, teaching an exceptionally able Y8 group, that I had the opportunity to introduce them to modular arithmetic, known more colloquially as 'clock maths'. I first came up with the idea in an essay where I theorised that it should be possible to teach KS3 pupils university-level maths with little difficulty, though I'd had no chance to test the idea at the time. As the topic was beyond the remit of the national curriculum, it would have to be taug...
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