Mathematician finally solves moving sofa problem popularised by Friends ‘pivot’ scene

Deeply moved by this story. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Great summary of IQ - the history, the misunderstanding of it, the reality of it. When teaching normal distribution, it always annoys me that all the questions are about IQ and I always do a little rant about it! www.aft.org/ae/winter202...

This is really interesting. As a maths teacher, this isn’t something I realised was happening

Lovely ideas here for a nice calm end to the term

😍We are rejoining Erasmus. Official announcement tomorrow😍 www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...

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Today in #ALevelMaths my 2025 A-Level Calculated colouring went up on my website. Feel free to use :) blog.drbennisonmaths.com/blog/2025/12...

Good morning! It’s Sunday, which means it’s #Edujobs #EduSky time! If you’re looking for a new move and you’re an educator; if you don’t want a classroom job, this is your hour.

Interesting that the BBC will call National Rally "Far Right" (in an article about Bardella meeting Farage) - when they would never use that term for Reform. Their policies are very similar. If anything Reform's are more authoritarian.

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Good sensible thread

6. For this to be useful the conversation absolutely must not be about whether ADHD and ASD are being over diagnosed. Instead it should be "how are these diagnoses being arrived at and are they helping people?" This means looking at processes, interventions and a wide range of outcomes.

Working in ITT, I feel a bit further removed from the impact of my role (compared with classroom teaching). But a couple of really positive things today have made me see how far some trainees have come this term and how positively that will be impacting students in their classrooms ☺️

As Jesus said: “You’re on your own mate, not my problem”

In #MathsToday Y13 filled this normal distribution table #ALevelMaths I love this resource, especially when students get to the second one of the bottom row and get stuck, at which point I usually prompt them to look for where 0.7778 appears elsewhere. But today, that didn’t happen…

In #MathsToday I used stem sentences to support teaching of expanding brackets. I was pleasantly surprised to hear pupils respond to questions using the structure of the stem sentence without me prompting them to do so. Would love to hear others' experiences of stem sentences in secondary maths.

After #MathsToday I created a new fill in the blanks generator on Normal Distribution. www.interactive-maths.com/normal-distr... You can choose what is revealed / hidden for any randomly generated distribution by clicking. Easy to screenshot into a presentation, or use live.

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My taxes bring all the boys to the yard. And they're like "this is bad approach to fiscal policy".

New A-level Maths and Further Maths resources: ✨Transformations of Trig Graphs Match-Up ✨Elastic Strings and Work Done Fill in the Blanks Find them at www.draustinmaths.com/a-level #UKMathsChat #ALevelMaths #MathsToday

Teaching circumference of a circle to Y9 in #MathsToday and enjoyed a bit of “always, sometimes, never”. Loved the discussion that this created and the thinking of is it/is not examples

Anyone know of any sites offering free “grade 9” or bronze, silver, gold gcse maths papers? I’m sure these were once a thing but can’t really find now #MathsToday

This has been my worry all along with the breakfast club nonsense. You can talk about funding all you like, the long and the short of it is that school leaders end up with another job on the list, another extension to their working day, and the job becomes ever harder... And this is from DfE advice!

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In 2020 Keir Starmer and Alf Dubs urged the then Conservative Government to restore their commitment to family reunion for child refugees, saying there was a “moral argument” to protect desperately vulnerable young people. Five years later Dubs condemns Starmer for doing the complete opposite

The murder rate in London is now the lowest in decades, perhaps centuries. (The Times)

They're openly telling us in advance what's going to happen

Not everyone is unhappy about the Government's descent into anti-refugee politics

In #mathstoday I’ve been desperately trying to find some short videos I remember on the maths needed in various careers, aimed at KS3/4 (rather than A Level which I can find on AMSP @meimaths.bsky.social ) I’m sure one featured Grove Lodge Vets in Brighton. Any ideas anyone pls? Or similar?

I think somehow it's going to take a lot more then that. But yes, that would be welcome.

Free webinar aiming to help teachers "energise learning" of fractions in their classrooms. Aimed at teachers of students in Key Stages 2 & 3: https://www.cambridgemaths.org/events/view/maths-week-england-2025/ #MathsToday #Maths #teaching

Calling excel wizards: is there a way to make like a macro thingy that can combine certain data from two different spreadsheets. ie, I want to take a report I run each week (Sparx homework) and add a field from second spreadsheet (admission number) in order to make a mail merge CSV?

Really enjoyed my first tutoring session with @actiontutoring.org.uk this morning. Great way to start the day ☺️

spent last week thrashing out expanding brackets with a grid/area model last week with grade 1-3 yr 10s, felt like I was going nowhere fast and encountering lots of difficulties. This morning did reverse process to factorise with same model. Insane success rate. #mathstoday

This rings true for me and I didn’t realise it until after the fact. Once I was back in a school that took T&L seriously, I realised that at my 2nd school, my teaching had stagnated for 2 years.

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Love this 😍

🚨Small boat migrants getting “private health care” while the rest of us have to use the NHS?!🚨 That’s outrageous! Or is it? Might the reality be a little more mundane and a little less clickbait-worthy? Let’s take a 👀 1/17 🧵

Does anyone teach #coremaths OCR B? First year teaching this and finding it challenging, could really use some advice from someone who has taught it before.

Dr Oz: "You'll notice, President Trump, these are discounted from $242 to $10. I don't know what the math is on that. We can't even calculate it. It's too high to calculate."

What trips or visiting speakers do you have for #AlevelMaths?

We understand students going into year 13 may still be using the fx-CG50 this year... Don't worry, we have lots of resources to help. education.casio.co.uk/blog/helping...

This feels like a long shot but I remember reading a great blog / newsletter from Craig Barton about asking questions like “what’s 2x20?” when doing long examples. I think it would have been very roughly this time last year I saw it. Anyone got it? #MathsToday

at the maths challenge club i run we have just finished senior maths challenge prep. Next stop is ritangle, but is there anything right now that year 7s or 8s or 9s could be getting on with? #mathschat #maths #mathstoday #mathsteaching #mtbos

I don’t suppose anyone has a scheme of work for AQA Level 2 Further Maths they would be willing to share with me? #MathsToday

What a gorgeous lesson. Thanks for sharing

In #MathsToday I made 40 A Level teachers colour in representations of the binomial distribution. This is your regular reminder that if you teach #ALevelMaths you should definitely try to join your local Maths Hub’s A Level Pedagogy group. There is some brilliant stuff going on all over England.

Love this. “SLOP” as Jo Morgan calls it (shed loads of practice)