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I posted at blog.foster77.co.uk every fortnight during my year as President of the Mathematical Association (2022-23).

These 26 posts continue to be available below:

Foster, C. (2022, April 14). Intro-ducing and outro-ducing methods [Blog post]. https://blog.foster77.co.uk/2022/04/intro-ducing-and-outro-ducing-methods.html

Foster, C. (2022, April 28). Tangible contexts for mathematics [Blog post]. https://blog.foster77.co.uk/2022/04/tangible-contexts-for-mathematics.html

Foster, C. (2022, May 26). Are two cars better than one? [Blog post]. https://blog.foster77.co.uk/2022/05/are-two-cars-better-than-one.html

Foster, C. (2022, June 23). Lines of not-very-good fit [Blog post]. https://blog.foster77.co.uk/2022/06/lines-of-not-very-good-fit.html

Foster, C. (2022, July 7). A football on the roof [Blog post]. https://blog.foster77.co.uk/2022/07/a-football-on-roof.html

Foster, C. (2022, July 21). Making rounding interesting [Blog post]. https://blog.foster77.co.uk/2022/07/making-rounding-interesting.html

Foster, C. (2022, August 4). Misremembering Goldbach’s conjecture [Blog post]. https://blog.foster77.co.uk/2022/08/misremembering-goldbachs-conjecture.html

Foster, C. (2022, August 18). The Differentiator [Blog post]. https://blog.foster77.co.uk/2022/08/the-differentiator.html

Foster, C. (2022, September 1). Interactive introductions [Blog post]. https://blog.foster77.co.uk/2022/09/interactive-introductions.html

Foster, C. (2022, September 15). Always simplify your answer [Blog post]. https://blog.foster77.co.uk/2022/09/always-simplify-your-answer.html

Foster, C. (2022, September 29). Tasks that can’t fail [Blog post]. https://blog.foster77.co.uk/2022/09/tasks-that-cant-fail.html

Foster, C. (2022, October 13). How open should a question be? [Blog post]. https://blog.foster77.co.uk/2022/10/how-open-should-question-be.html

Foster, C. (2022, October 27). Butterfly effects when adapting tasks [Blog post]. https://blog.foster77.co.uk/2022/10/butterfly-effects-when-adapting-tasks.html

Foster, C. (2022, November 10). Is area more difficult than volume? [Blog post]. https://blog.foster77.co.uk/2022/11/is-area-more-difficult-than-volume.html

Foster, C. (2022, November 24). Fractions as factors [Blog post]. https://blog.foster77.co.uk/2022/10/fractions-as-factors.html

Foster, C. (2022, December 8). Dividing into thirds [Blog post]. https://blog.foster77.co.uk/2022/12/dividing-into-thirds.html

Foster, C. (2022, December 22). Mixing the dimensions in models of number [Blog post]. https://blog.foster77.co.uk/2022/12/mixing-dimensions-in-models-of-number.html

Foster, C. (2023, January 5). Proportionality [Blog post]. https://blog.foster77.co.uk/2023/01/proportionality.html

Foster, C. (2023, January 19). Is zero really a number? [Blog post]. https://blog.foster77.co.uk/2023/01/is-zero-really-number.html

Foster, C. (2023, February 2). Non-expository video clips [Blog post]. https://blog.foster77.co.uk/2023/02/non-expository-video-clips.html

Foster, C. (2023, February 16). Don’t forget the units? [Blog post]. https://blog.foster77.co.uk/2023/02/dont-forget-units.html

Foster, C. (2023, March 2). Are probabilities and inequalities approximate? [Blog post]. https://blog.foster77.co.uk/2023/03/are-probabilities-and-inequalities.html

Foster, C. (2023, March 16). Crocodiles and inequality signs [Blog post]. https://blog.foster77.co.uk/2023/03/crocodiles-and-inequality-signs.html

Foster, C. (2023, March 30). Teaching specific tactics for problem solving [Blog post]. https://blog.foster77.co.uk/2023/03/teaching-specific-strategies-for.html