Nicola Louise McAll

Whilst living overseas, I had the opportunity to get involved with some charity work with a local school. It was during this time, working with young people that I decided that teaching was the career for me. On returning to the UK I trained as a teacher of mathematics and have never looked back. I have spent the majority of my teaching career in secondary schools but have taught primary students and adults alike. I enjoy seeing students succeed at whatever level they are working and take a sense of pride seeing them move into their chosen career whilst hoping that I have helped them in some way achieve their personal best. I also write mathematics content for various organisations and enjoy creating written materials that can give real life examples of where the mathematics is used.

Educated to Masters Level (Master in Education) I have 25 years as a teacher of mathematics in secondary schools, working my way up to Head of Department and Senior Leadership Team experience.

Outside of my work even my hobbies include maths, I am a keen cyclist which involves speed, distance, time, and gradients (I try not to think to much about the uphill ones!!). I am also a mountaineer which sometimes means being geographically misplaced, but taking bearings and understanding scale helps me get home. It is these life experiences that help me in my teaching and writing of mathematics. Student’s own life experiences also help to give me ideas to put across concepts in a way they enjoy and can understand.