{"id":18,"date":"2015-05-23T18:02:26","date_gmt":"2015-05-23T17:02:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mathsfiles.com\/blog\/?page_id=18"},"modified":"2015-09-06T08:17:37","modified_gmt":"2015-09-06T07:17:37","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.mathsfiles.com\/blog\/about\/","title":{"rendered":"Welcome to the MathsFiles Blog"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My name is<a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.mathsfiles.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Mike.png?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-full wp-image-5 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.mathsfiles.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Mike.png?resize=170%2C255&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Mike\" width=\"170\" height=\"255\" \/><\/a> Mike Hadden. In 2001 when I was teaching at Hills Road Sixth Form College in Cambridge I got interested in using Excel to create interactive resources for Maths teachers and students. I got funding from the\u00a0 Gatsby foundation to spend one day a week for a year on the project and at the end of that time started a website <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mathsfiles.com\" target=\"_blank\">www.mathsfiles.com <\/a>to show the results.<br \/>\nSince that time I have continued to develop my skills and the website. I have run workshops in Excel for teachers as well as undertaking commercial projects and training for companies.<\/p>\n<p>This blog will probably evolve as I go along but for now I plan to share some of what I have learned about using Excel with Macros, information and updates about what is on the MathsFiles website\u00a0 as well as some thoughts and resources about Maths teaching.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My name is Mike Hadden. In 2001 when I was teaching at Hills Road Sixth Form College in Cambridge I got interested in using Excel to create interactive resources for Maths teachers and students. I got funding from the\u00a0 Gatsby foundation to spend one day a week for a year on the project and at &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mathsfiles.com\/blog\/about\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Welcome to the MathsFiles Blog<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-18","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/P6flNW-i","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mathsfiles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/18","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mathsfiles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mathsfiles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mathsfiles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mathsfiles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.mathsfiles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/18\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40,"href":"https:\/\/www.mathsfiles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/18\/revisions\/40"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mathsfiles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}