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Welcome to mathematician Martin Hansen's website featuring Teaching and Learning Resources for GCSE, A-Level, and University. The news blog on this page focuses on post-graduate research into the Aperiodic. Formerly a teacher at Shrewsbury School (School of the Year in 2020), Martin is now at The University of Derby.

12 Nov 2024 Year 6 / Primary 6 Tutoring
12 Nov 2024 Vulgar Fractions (with a Number Theory flavour)
05 Nov 2024 New largest prime to date found...
05 Nov 2024 ... 2^136,279,841-1
09 Oct 2024 Godfather of AI...
09 Oct 2024 ... shares Nobel physics prize (BBC)
28 Sep 2024 Grimm Network #4, University of Leeds
28 Sep News from the September 2024 event

27 Sep 2024 Research News
27 Sep 5th busy beaver number found
24 Sep 2024 Lotto, Premium Bonds or Fixed Rate ?
24 Sep An informative article from Martin Lewis
05 Sep 2024 Magic Squares: A Teaching Point of View
05 Sep An article in three parts... 

         Magic Squares from a Teaching Point of View 

24 Jul 2024 Festival of The Hat, University of Oxford
24 Jul Late news from last year's event

HatFest at The University of Oxford

08 Jul 2024 A-Level Project : The Collatz Conjecture
08 Jul Four lessons culminating in project work
07 Jul 2024 Grimm Network #3, University of Bristol
07 Jul News from the July 2024 event

24 May 2024 Thue-Morse is Aperiodic: A Proof
24 May Article from M500 magazine (October 2023)

The Thue-Morse Sequaence is Aperiodic: A Proof

22 May 2024 Grimm Network #2, University of Derby
22 May News from the March 2024 event

14 May 2024 Grimm Network #1, The Open University
14 May News from the July 2023 event

08 May 2024 Happy Birthday Number Wonder !
08 May We're five years old. Gimmie cake.
10 Dec 2023 IGCSE Exam Revision
10 Dec Three Practice Papers (including answers)
09 Nov 2023 Second Edition: Out Now!
09 Nov A-Level Statistics Partitioning Data (+ answers)
09 Nov Eleven tried and tested lessons
27 Aug 2023 Complex Fibonacci
27 Aug Article from M500 magazine (June 2023)

Complex Fibonacci

05 Jun 2023 Conference “Mathematics Teaching”
15 Dec News from the University of Sheffield event  

Sheffield conference on Teaching Mathematics 2023 

12 Apr 2023 Summer Term, New Resources
12 Apr 1) GCSE (Year 11) 5 x '21 Today' Revision Papers
12 Apr 2) GCSE (Year 11) Six 'Grade Grabber' Revision
12 Apr 3) GCSE (Year 11) Six More 'Grade Grabber'
12 Apr 4) Further A-Level Pure Hyperbolic Functions
12 Apr 5) Further A-Level Pure Differential Equations II
12 Apr 6) Further A-Level Pure Ten Health Checks
02 Apr 2023 Drawing Rules on the Fibonacci Word
02 Apr A Research MSc  from The Open University (UK)

Cover to Substitution Drawing Rules on the Fibonacci Word 

23 Mar 2023 Research News : Einstein Found
23 Mar One simple tile that tiles the plane aperiodically
15 Jan 2023 Spring Term, New Resources
15 Jan 1) GCSE (Year 10) Iteration (Non-Calculator)
15 Jan 2) A-Level Further Pure Telescoping Series
15 Jan 3) A-Level Further Pure Polar Coordinates
02 Jan 2023 The 2023 New Year Lectures
02 Jan Three undergraduate lectures on Graph Theory
28 Dec 2022 Trapping The Primes
28 Dec Article from M500 Magazine (October 2021) 

Trapping The Primes 

28 Dec 2022 The Number Wonder Website
28 Dec The user interface to access all of our teaching
28 Dec and learning resources has had a major upgrade
21 Dec 2022 Top 100 Mathematics Websites
21 Dec Number Wonder's list reorganised 
15 Dec 2022 Remembering Professor Uwe Grimm
15 Dec Article from M500 magazine (December 2022) 

Remembering Professor Uwe Grimm 

15 Dec 2022 New Editions (2nd)
15 Dec 1) GCSE : Ratio and Similarity
15 Dec 2) GCSE : Classification of Numbers
15 Dec 3) A-Level : Differential Equations I
15 Dec 4) A-Level : Polynomials
15 Dec 5) A-Level : Coordinate Geometry
15 Dec 6) Further A-Level: Complex Numbers I
15 Dec 7) Further A-Level: Volumes of Revolution I
15 Dec 8) Further A-Level: Matrix Transformations
15 Dec 9) Further A-Level: Roots of Polynomials
15 De10) Further A-Level: Proof by Induction
15 De11) Further A-Level: Matrix Systems of Equations
15 De12) Further A-Level: Maclaurin Series
15 De13) Further A-Level: Complex Numbers II
15 De14) Further A-Level: Improper Integrals
04 Aug 2022 First Time Online (A-Level)
04 Aug Proof: The Art of Absolute Certainty
06 Jul 2022 Mathematics Conference “The Aperiodic”
06 Jul News from the Open University event 

The Aperiodic 2022 

01 Jul 2022 Number Wonder's Martin Hansen...
01 Jul ... elected to the London Mathematical Society
24 Jun 2022 New Edition (2nd)
24 Jun 1) Further A-Level : Series and Visual Proof
24 Jun 2) A-Level : Differentiation III
24 Jun 3) A-Level : Differentiation IV
24 Jun 4) GCSE : Algebraic Fractions
22 Jun 2022 Number Wonder Fully Certificated
22 Jun We're a Google friendly, authenticated website

03 Apr 2022 New Edition
03 Apr GCSE Functions I
14 Mar 2022 First Time Online
14 Mar For A-Level (Year 2) Integration III
17 Jan 2022 New Edition Published
17 Jan For GCSE, Year 10 Statistics
01 Jan 2022 Three Number Wonder Lectures...
01 Jan ... on Vector Spaces (University 2nd Year)
21 Dec 2021 New Editions Released
21 Dec A-Level Binomial Expansion
21 Dec A-Level Functions II
03 Oct 2021 New lessons, ideal for use in OneNote
03 Oct  GCSE (Year 9) Index Form
03 Oct  GCSE (Year 10) Percentages II
03 Oct  GCSE/A-Level Surds and Indices I
03 Oct  A-Level Differentiation II
03 Oct  A-Level (Further) Surds and Indices II
01 Jul 2021 Post-GCSE Course in Group Theory
01 Jul  A hands on insight into University Mathematics
15 Jun 2021 UK's Longest Running Maths Competition
15 Jun The 2021 Paper is available now  !

Arnold Hagger 2021 

10 Jun 2021 Mr Fussy and Mr Greedy
10 Jun Much praised lessons on Set Theory II (GCSE)
11 Mar 2021 Teaching Videos, Complete Lessons on...
11 Mar 1) GCSE Angles and Polygons
11 Mar 2) GCSE Set Theory I
11 Mar 3) A-Level Pure Trigonometry IV
12 Feb 2021 For Valentine's Day

I Love Maths
Math-Art Geometric Drawing Activity
Read : I Love Maths 

07 Dec 2020 Community Outreach Resources
07 Dec A-Level Pure Integration I
05 Nov 2020 A-Level : Functions II : 2nd Edition
05 Nov In OneNote format : Functions II

21 Oct 2020 We're Independent School of the Year 2020

School of the Year

04 Sep 2020 Praise for Number Wonder
04 Sep Just found your website - loving the resources!
04 Sep Better explained than the textbook!
04 Sep "KS" : Queen Elizabeth's School, London, UK
11 Aug 2020 Showcase Materials (Click image for access)

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 GCSE : Year 11
Vectors I

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 GCSE : Year 11
Conic Sections

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 A-Level (Pure)
Geometric Progressions

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 A-Level (Mechanics)
Moments II

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 Further A-Level (Pure)
Series and Visual Proof

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 Further A-Level (Pure)
Roots of Polynomials

11 Aug 2020 New for the New Academic Year
11 Aug 1) A-Level Year 2 Trigonometry V
11 Aug 2) A-Level Year 2 Arithmetic Progressions
11 Aug 2020 Autumn Website Tidy-Up
11 Aug A-Level Vectors II
11 Aug Further A-Level Vectors III
03 Jul 2019 Flippin' Functions

Flippin' Functions
Read : Flippin' Functions 

13 May 2019 A Calculation Conundrum

Place your bets on which is correct before reading on .

08 May 2019 The Number Wonder website is launched

  
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