Juan Bercial
Juan Pedro Bercial Vélez has been teaching Maths to groups of students since the tender age of 19 in a variety of levels, institutions and even continents. A key moment in his life is when in 1994 he decided to take an Erasmus grant to finish his Degree at the University of Liverpool.
He stayed in Liverpool to fully qualify as a teacher, although he had to first complete his Spanish National Service by working at the UES (University of El Salvador) helping in a Maths Education program.
After teaching KS4 and KS5 at Bellerive FCJ in Toxteth, Liverpool, he was invited to do an M.Sc at the University of Liverpool in 2000. During that time he worked alongside Prof. Ian Porteous and Prof. Peter Giblin (his Masters’ director) helping to develop the Fun Maths Roadshow, taking it to many schools throughout Merseyside. He then did a PhD in Fracture Mechanics with Prof. A.B. Movchan, lectured Engineers and Mathematicians at Liverpool University.
In 2007 he returned to Key Stage 5 and taught in Outstanding institutions such as King George V, Winstanley College and most recently, at the School of Medicine at West Lancashire College. “I feel that I am at the perfect place to prepare and enthuse future mathematicians in a dedicated environment; there is nothing more satisfying that seeing young minds developing and understanding deeper concepts.
