About Us
Colin Hegarty
I love maths and teaching it! I was the first person in my family to attend university, going to Oxford University and obtaining a First Class degree in Mathematics. For six years after university I worked in...
Brian Arnold
I’ve wanted to teach all my life and was inspired by my dedicated maths teacher in secondary school. After graduating school to study a BSc. in Mathematical Science, I also worked full time in...
Daniel Keeble
Firstly, I would like to say how honoured I am to be a part of the HegartyMaths team to help develop and spread this new method...
Jordan Lapointe
It’s a pleasure to have been on the web development team at HegartyMaths as I was once taught by Colin Hegarty and Brian Arnold. Ever since meeting these inspirational people, I have...
In 2011, inspired by Khan Academy we decided to experiment with the making of maths videos for our pupils. The attraction was that we hoped the videos would be useful for our pupils to revise topics covered in class, useful for pupils who missed school and useful for pupils in our school who did not have access to home support and private tuition. We had previously used other available video resources with our pupils to varying degrees of success but differences in mathematical terminology and explanations as compared to classroom explanations meant that at times we did not achieve the success we anticipated.
Some of the first videos we made were for classes who needed some intense revision for their GCSE maths exams. Our pupils found the videos really helpful for revising topics for the exam - they would make revision cards while watching a tutorial and then attempt the past paper questions and check their answers on our past paper solutions videos. Pupils in our classes and other classes in our school told us how...