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Confidence in Maths, Confidence for Life.

Changing Lives Through Maths!

    Mathnasium of North Oxford, your neighbourhood maths-only learning centre!

    We help children aged 13 — 18 understand maths in a special way. Our way of teaching children maths, the Mathnasium Method, has changed the way students learn maths for over a decade across 800 + centres worldwide:

    • We know how to teach your child maths.

    Our specially trained maths teachers will teach your child how to understand maths in a special setting—our unique approach enables us to effectively explain maths concepts (概念)well and lend a helping hand to every student. Our teachers create a caring, encouraging environment that helps your child "catch up, keep up and get ahead" in their maths learning.

    • We find exactly your child' s learning needs, meet them where they are and take them where they need to go.

    At Mathnasium we use our unique assessment process (评估过程)to determine exactly what each child knows and what they need to learn. Next, we design an individual(单独的)learning plan for each student. It doesn' t stop there—our teachers continually check progress along the way to make sure students truly understand the concepts we've taught. Students learn maths at their own speed and according to their own level. They will see obvious changes in attitude, confidence and school progress.

About Our Centre

    Since its opening on 8 September this year, Mathnasium of North Oxford has been offering maths instruction and homework help to students in the community. You can find us at 18 South Parade, Summertown, North Oxford 0X2 7JL

    Call at 01865 855968 or e-mail to mathnasium. co. uk.

Hours of Instruction

    Weekdays: 3 : 30PM - 7 : 30PM

    Weekends: 9 : 00AM 一 5 : 00PM

    Click (点击)here to find out if Mathnasium is right for your child.

    A Kenyan teacher who gave away . most of his monthly salary (工资)to poor people has won a $1 -million Global Teacher Prize.

    In 2016, Peter Tabichi came to Keriko Mixed Day Secondary School, a public school, in a faraway Kenya s Rift Valley. The school had just a single computer and had problems connecting to the Internet. It had no library or laboratory, as well. To make matters worse, the students came from poor families where basics like food and clothing were hard to come by. While these difficulties would have caused most people to leave quickly, Tabichi stayed.

    Realizing that starving kids make for poor students, the teacher began using as much as 80 percent of his monthly salary to buy food and learning objects for them. He set up a science club to get kids interested in the topic. "Our laboratory does not have everything, but I encourage them to think wider and use what we can get locally. "

    Tabichi and other four teachers regularly visit low-achieving, at-risk, students at their homes to provide one- on-one help and to understand the difficulties these children face daily.  Tabichi also encourages parents to allow girls to continue their high-school education.

    Tabichi's efforts have made a difference. School registration (注册)has more than doubled to almost 400 now since he came . In 2017, 16 of the 59 graduating students went to college, while in 2018, the number rose to 26. In 2017 , five students qualified(有资格)for the Intel ISEF (International Science and Engineering Fair). This year, two other students will compete in the 2019 Intel ISEF to be held in Phoenix, Arizona.

    The teacher, however, owes his success to his students, saying,"I am only here because of what my students have achieved. This prize gives them a chance. It tells the world that they can do anything. " As would be expected, Tabichi plans to spend the prize money on his school community and to feed the poor.

    Black holes were first put forward by Albert Einstein in 1916. However, scientists had not proved their directly. That changed on April 10, 2019, with the release of the first photo of a black hole in the center of the galaxy (星系)M87, located 55 million light years from Earth.

    The photo does not show the black hole itself. That's because they are black and so they can't be seen in space.the scientists used radio signals to capture (拍摄)the black hole's "shadow" —the bright ring that forms around its edge, when light bends because of the extreme gravity around the hole.

    The M87 black hole, believed to have a mass 6.5 billion times that of our sun, was captured using the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT)—a network of eight powerful telescopes(望远镜.)The telescopes, located in Hawaii, Arizona , Chile, Mexico, Spain and Antarctica, separately captured the black holl's radio signals over four nights in April 2017, when the weather was fine in all six places. The data was transpcried to a centre where it was dealt with by a supercomputer to form the photo of the black hole's shadow. The researchers say while the photo is slightly blurry, future photos will be clearer as more telescopes are added to the EHT. Black ' holes are not easy to capture on camera because  they are surrounded by thick dusty and hot gases.

    Black holes are areas in space where the pulling strength of gravity is so powerful that even light is unable to escape. They can be different widely in size and mass. The smallest,  called "primordial" black holes are as small as a single atom but with a mass of a big mountain. " Stellar'' black holes, which are the most common, have a diameter (直径)of about 10 miles and a mass 20 times that of our sun. The largest or "supermassive'' black holes, similar to that of M87's, can have a mass . greater than millions, or even billions of suns combined.

Signs of a True Friendship

    True friends are rare. . How can you tell a true friend? Here are several obvious signs of a friendship.

    A true friend is a reliable person, and you can have confidence in him. You know that he will hot betray (背 叛)you or say something bad about you behind your back. You know that the information you share with one another will not be shared with others

    Keeping in touch with each other frequently

    . True friends often keep in touch with each other, whether by phone, social networking sites ,email or in-person meetings.

    Giving without paying back

    True friends give with no expectations of receiving anything in return. Real friends give their time, love and care without expecting to receive anything back.

    Supporting each other

    True friendships involve (涉及)two people who support each other no matter what happens. It can be difficult to know how to help a friend who's facing a difficult situation, though. Call him, even if you don't think he will answer the phone, and leave an encouraging message he can listen to later.  Or send him an email letting him know that you' re there for him if he needs anything.

    Accepting each other

    Real friends accept each other. A real friend accepts you for who you are, whether you are tall or short, gentle or rude. A real friend may inspire you to be a better person.

A. Believing in each other

B. Sharing with each other

C. You can express your feelings freely

D. And you may have only a few true friends in your life

E. Send an encouragement card to your friend when he is in trouble

F. However, he will not try to change you into the person he thinks you should be

G. It's difficult to maintain a true friendship if you hardly communicate with each other

    On March 10, 2019, eight-year-old Tanitoluwa "Tani" Adewumi beat 73 young competitors to win the New York State Chess Championship in his age category—kindergarten to third grade. While the 1 is great, what is even more amazing is that the boy 2 learning the game less than a year ago.

    Tani and his family 3 in New York City from Nigeria in 2017. Soon after, Tani started to study at the 4 elementary school, P. S. 116, which is near his home. It was here that the young boy was first  5 to the chess. 6 by the game, the boy begged his mother, Oluwatoyin, to allow him to 7 the school's chess club. Considering that the family would be unable to afford the 8, Oluwatoyin emailed chess  9Russel Makofsky, who ran the club. To her surprise and 10, Makofsky agreed to charge young Tani nothing.The young boy made up his mind to practice harder in return for his 11 He has won seven important prizes in less than a year, and 12 #27 in America in his age category.

    13the chess club certainly helps, Tani's success can be largely owed to (归功于)his 14 to the game. The chess player 15 the game for several hours a day. Every Saturday, Tani and his mother 16 to Harlem for a free 3-hour class to help further sharpen his game skills.

    He is now busy 17 the National Elementary Championships, which will be held in Nashville, TN. Winning the 18 will bring the chess player closer to his dream of becoming the world's 19 chess grand master (大师). The record is now held by Russian chess player Sergey Alexandrovich Karjakin, who won the title in 2002 at the age of 12 years. We have no 20 that the determined boy will achieve his goal soon!