MY TEACHING STYLE
My unique style is a blend of detective work and comedy: I listen very carefully to how my students think, figure out where the issues are, and then we laugh while we fix it.
Humo(u)r is so important for relaxing the mind – opening it up, letting in fresh ideas and making learning genuinely enjoyable.
Mixing Logic and Laughter makes for upbeat lessons and enthusiastic students.
A bit of SHERLOCK HOLMES
I was a scholar at Eton College,earning top grades in all my GCSEs and A-levels, including Math a year early. I was then a scholar at Oxford University.
I came second in the UK’s first ever National Sudoku Championship, appeared on the BBC News to talk about how to solve them, and published the book Teach Yourself Advanced Sudoku and Kakuro.
I was commissioned to write three books on mathematics for a Japanese publisher and wrote a column for The Guardian newspaper called “Nick Afka Thomas does the Maths”.
A bit of MONTY PYTHON
At university, I was in the world-famous Oxford Revue (which is where two of the actual Pythons got their start). I then trained as an actor and as a mime, before regularly performing in London and Edinburgh in the world’s longest-running comedy show – The Newsrevue – and landing roles in BBC dramas and comedies.
After moving to America, I trained at UCB, was in an award-winning improv team – Macwood Fleet, and had a monthly show at Second City.
You can see me on TV comedy shows such as “Royal Pains” and “The Mick” and as half of the successful, married, British-American comedy sketch duo “We Are Thomasse“, frequently working with two-time Grammy-winner Jason Mraz.
Meanwhile I published a board game (“The Eton Game”) and started creating multiple games to make math more fun.