“Just a bacon seed” Jimmy Nail? 🤔 #totp

And now Queen Christina - NOT miming. 👊 #totp

She’s miming but she makes up for it with enthusiasm. #totp

ONE WEEK TO GO 🎉 Join our ambassadors for #NationalNumeracyDay on 20 May💙 Coming next week: - Live Lesson with @mrmoneyjar.bsky.social & Times Tables Rockstars - Resources from @bobbyseagull.bsky.social & Susan Okereke - A #BigNumberNatter with Denise Welch -Dr Linda on confidence & community

New! My 198th gems post. Ideas, updates and resources for maths teachers. 💎 www.resourceaholic.com/2026/05/5-ma... #mathstoday #ukmathschat #alevelmaths

How can you follow S Express with this bilge? Nil points #totp

Shoulder pad rich. #totp

Film you've watched more than 6 times with a gif. Hard mode: no Star Trek, Star Wars, LOTR, DC, Marvel, Disney, Mixer, Spielberg, Cameron, Wachowskis or Ghibli

Peak pun-day content. @jameshandscombe.bsky.social @pippinsboss.bsky.social

Superb summary of how careful planning and consistent routines reduce a teachers cognitive load and facilitate more effective lessons. open.substack.com/pub/solinthe...

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Integrity is expensive

Happy Easter We all have some things to be grateful for #gratitude

A new study of more than 140K infants shows that Covid vaccination in pregnancy cuts the baby's hospitalization risk by about 50% in first 2 months. Babies can't get vaccinated until 6 months; protecting mom protects the baby.

In a world where many doubt their own strength, the little honeybee proves them wrong every day. It doesn't wait to be big or important—it simply does its work, quietly, consistently, and purposefully. And in doing so, it sustains life itself. Never underestimate the impact of small actions.

Stupid Gen Z title, but full of interesting statistics. www.bbc.com/future/artic...

Can’t find anything to disagree witg here.

Oh boy! What a headline... Ask yourself: "What am I being asked to believe?" "Who am I being told to blame?" Take a few seconds to imagine what the Daily Mail (And Telegraph, GB News and Express) WANT you to think is going on. Let's see what's ACTUALLY happening...🧵 1/21

#MathsToday 11a1 - smashed surface area of a cylinder (revision) 7a1 - smashed dividing with mixed numbers 7b3 - smashed ordering fractions 8b2 - smashed standard form with negative powers 10a1 - smashed changing ratios 🙌 I wish more days were like this!

An important reminder

@loualltheslaps.bsky.social I only followed you because my late uncle was called Lou Takkos and he was a great guy. I miss him. Also, I like cats. 😜

Wow, that sky 🤩

⏰ TIME TO CHECK YOUR BOUNDARIES ⏰ Half term or just plodding on it’s time for some boundaries spring cleaning. Are they working 90% of the time? What’s working? What needs to change as the days get longer & activities change? Some suggestions in the photos that I found useful in primary 😊

A visual demonstration of how counting to "100" in base four works. It's great fun to pause at 33 and ask "what comes next?" (hint: it's not 40!) mathsbot.com/tools/counting

Just checking, it's now ok to flee your homeland, because you're afraid for your safety, and seek refuge in another Country? Glad we've cleared that up. Let's hear no more about immigration and refugees then.

I am convinced there is no such thing as talent, at least not in the way the word is commonly used. What there is though, is a thing you love doing so much that you do it over and over and over again, until you are really damn good at it. and if you are lucky, you discover it early on

Using Cuisenaire rods to model how we can find the nth term rule of a simple linear sequence. youtu.be/s38PBKNdpBs #MiniMathsBots

Mouth twanger. #totp

Chef’s kiss for this write up… londondaily.com/british-writ...

#MathsToday For years I have relied on this circus image to try and help students remember the concept of a trapezium. Today, I made this with AI, and I’m kind of sad that I will never again experience the hysterical amusement caused by my inept attempts to draw an elephant by hand.

One guy tried, unsuccessfully, to blow up a plane with a bomb in his sneakers, and everybody had to take off their shoes at the airport for the next 20 years. Chatbots have a collective body count equal to Richard "The Night Stalker" Ramirez, and they're trying to put them in schools.

“Staff know what children need, but they cannot provide it. They carry the emotional fallout of systemic failure daily. Participants in my research described feeling responsible for needs that no single teacher or school could meet.”

This Alda performance is terrible in every way #TOTP

Stop feeding the monster. open.substack.com/pub/markgood...

I am not sure I’ll get the same traction here as I did on the dark place but please answer and REPOST and let’s try to build a lovely bookish thread. The best book you read this year was… Mine undoubtedly The Elements by John Boyne (please check trigger warnings first).

Day 1 of the holidays: ILL

I don't really post anymore, but I would like to carry on writing books at some point in the future. Hate to be annoying, but any chance you could retweet so old twitter followers can find me if they want to? Going to delete my twitter, or at least abandon it on lock and let it die a slow death.

When ‘low’ level disruption is explained to non-teachers, it is often dismissed as: kids talk too much haha. The reality is that it is common for a teacher to be interrupted several times, deliberately, by multiple students to the point that a simple explanation is impossible.

🖌️🎨 Spice up your #maths classroom! 😃 What does your teacher name look like in mathematical lettering? Craft a cool display title or door plaque in seconds! Try it: mathswhiteboard.com/MWB/mathemat... Share your in the comments... @mathsjem.bsky.social #TeacherTools

Hi everyone! Please share this to any secondary Maths teachers 😊: I have created a Christmas Maths exam paper in the style of Edexcel for my year 11 class for a bit of fun. Please feel free to use it too: www.tes.com/teaching-res...

11/23 is Fibonacci Day apparently 🤓

A great total to have if you want to split a bill evenly in a restaurant.

5 mile run today, such a fantastic morning for it, even needed my sunglasses. #edurunners