Louise Ashmore is an education consultant and school improvement partner. She has been a head of Maths in two Secondary schools in West Yorkshire and most recently a deputy headteacher responsible for Curriculum and Standards. In 2016, Louise was designated as a specialist leader of education for Mathematics, Leadership of the Curriculum and Closing the Gap. She lives in Holmfirth, West Yorkshire, with her husband (@ashmore_edu), and their three beautiful children.
James and Louise play a game of pool. Louise strikes the ball at a 45-degree angle and watches with great fascination to see how many times the ball bounces against the cushion. She wonders if the number of bounces would change if she had a bigger or a smaller pool table. She drags James around countless pool halls, keeping a record in a hand-drawn tally chart attached to her clipboard, until she believes that she has collected enough data to find a pattern. After several hours of puzzling, Louise finds a rule and is able to use this rule to find out how many bounces there will be on any pool table in the world!
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