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Mr Barton is an Advanced Skills Maths teacher in Formby (near Liverpool). In 2007 Mr Barton was fortunate enough to be granted a one year secondment to visit sunny Australia. He had three aims for his trip:

1. To build this website
2. To experience what it is like to teach in the land Down Under
3. To get a sun tan for the first time in his life

Mr Barton achieved two of these aims.

Mr Barton is a firm believer in the effective use of ICT to enhance both the teaching and learning of maths, and that there's no better resource than a free one, and these beliefs very much form the ethos of the site.


Mr Barton has written two textbooks with accompanying CDs, which aim to help A Level students and teachers make the most out of Autograph.

The Teacher Demonstrations book provides teachers with step by step guides how to introduce 15 topics in an interactive and dynamic way.

The Student Investigations book provides students with 10 interactive, challenging investigations to push them to their mathematical limits.

Your granny may also enjoy these books.


Below are a couple of videos of Mr Barton talking about his Autograph Activities textbooks. He has since purchased new shirts, ties and glasses.

 
 


Contrary to popular belief, Mr Barton's life doesn't totally revolve around numbers (only 99.36% of it). As well as teaching and writing about maths, Mr Barton also likes to do a bit of other writing, and his first novel The Cambridge Diaries: A Tale of Friendship, Love and Economics was released in 2006. It is a story of a young northern lad's first year at Cambridge University and is very much based on Mr Barton's own experiences (although Mr Barton's character in the book is slightly funnier and has slightly more success with ladies than the real-life version). Some might say that it is the perfect read for anyone who is off to university, or who wants to know what really goes on at university these days, but I couldn't possibly comment on that. Reviews and more information can be found by clicking on the picture on the left.




Whilst in Australia, Mr Barton has completed his next two novels, and is currently waiting for a million pound offer to publish them so that he can finally afford to upgrade his Nissan Micra. The frist is the tale of a family at Chrsitmas, the members of whom all have something to hide, and the second is a crime drama (with a twist) set in a supermarket in Preston...

For a taster of both novels, click on the links below:


A teaser for "Secrets and Mince Pies" by C N Barton.

A teaser for "Tell me a Story" by C N Barton.


Over the past few years Mr Barton has written a maths inspired soft rock anthem entitled "There's More to Maths Than One Add One", appeared dressed as Pythagoras in a respectable Southport hotel, won the princely sum of £15 on the BBC1 TV show Bargain Hunt whilst dressed in a bow tie and sporting an awful haircut, and reached the regional finals of the BT Phone Kiosk Karaoke competition where he was unfortunately knocked out by an 11 year old Celine Dion. These are just some of the reasons he had to flee these shores for Australia.

Mr Barton really hopes you enjoy looking around the site and using the help and resources on offer. Any feedback, questions, suggestions or multi-million pound donations via the contact section would be welcomed with open arms.




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