profile | Wendy Fortescue-Hubbard

Achievements

Head of Mathematics where she received 5/5 excellents for her teaching from OfSTED, and taught in a number of different schools.

Supported Dyslexic students in the mathematics related to their degree courses
at University.  She has researched in Mathematics Education and Psychology, and
her MSc thesis is entitled "Learning Multiplication tables: TheAssociated Issues"

Invented a game Perfect Times, a solution for learning tables as part of
her research.

BBC Tomorrow’s World Roadshow in July 2002 appeared in her own show
on the stage ‘Algebra for Science’ .

TES mathagony aunt column, she writes and illustrates her weekly column
in the Times Educational Supplement.

RAF Maths Challenge, toured the country with workshops for the RAF.

Academic literature, has written materials for Nelsonthornes Key Maths series following thenational Framework for mathematics.

NESTA Fellow, MSc, PgDip(Dist), BA, CertEd Maths, LMS

Wendy was nominated and awarded a Nesta Fellowshop in November 2001 for her talent in teaching and creativity. In April 2002 she bagan a weekly column in the TES called 'Mathagony aunt'.

“There are so many people out there who can do maths but they just don’t realise they can. I want to switch them on.”