Charlotte McFarlan
@charlottemaths.bsky.social
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Ex Maths Teacher now working in ITT
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Zack Polanski
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I think somehow it's going to take a lot more then that. But yes, that would be welcome.
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Tommaths (he/him)
2 days ago
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
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Mr 'DG' Goater
3 days ago
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?
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Really enjoyed my first tutoring session with
@actiontutoring.org.uk
this morning. Great way to start the day ☺️
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Sam Blatherwick
10 days ago
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
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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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Lucy Worsley
23 days ago
Do you know a great history teacher? Nominate them now for a new history teaching award! Maybe I'll see them at the Tower of London next year! Nominate someone here:
bit.ly/42yhGZP
#historyteachingawards
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Sonia L
24 days ago
There's a whole other world out there:
www.tes.com/jobs/vacancy...
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Private Tutor - London, England, Oxfordshire - Tes Jobs
Tutors International, United Kingdom
https://www.tes.com/jobs/vacancy/private-tutor-london-england-oxfordshire-2256768
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Love this 😍
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Emma Monk
25 days ago
🚨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 🧵
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Hannah
27 days ago
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.
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Aaron Rupar
28 days ago
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."
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Hannah
29 days ago
What trips or visiting speakers do you have for
#AlevelMaths
?
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Casio Education
29 days ago
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...
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Helping A-level maths students get started with the fx-CG100 - Casio Calculators
What you can do to prepare your A-level maths students for success with the new Casio fx-CG100 graphic calculator.
https://education.casio.co.uk/blog/helping-a-level-maths-students-get-started-with-the-fx-cg100/
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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
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Sam Blatherwick
about 1 month ago
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
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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
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What a gorgeous lesson. Thanks for sharing
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Catriona Agg
about 1 month ago
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.
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Love this. “SLOP” as Jo Morgan calls it (shed loads of practice)
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I know I’ve read stuff from
@adamboxereducation.bsky.social
on how to deal with shouting out but I can’t for the life of me find it now. Can anyone help? 🙏🏼
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The Guardian
about 1 month ago
Mothers lose an average £65,618 in pay by the time their first child turns five
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Mothers lose an average £65,618 in pay by the time their first child turns five
Women’s average monthly earnings fall by 42% compared with one year before birth, ONS study finds Mothers lose an average of £65,618 in pay by the time their first child turns five, as the “motherhood penalty” risks their financial security, official figures show. Mums in England are hit by a “substantial and long-lasting reduction” in their pay after they have children, as they become less likely to stay in paid employment, the Office for National Statistics have said. Continue reading...
https://www.theguardian.com/money/2025/oct/03/mothers-lose-an-average-65618-in-pay-by-the-time-their-first-child-turns-five?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=bluesky&CMP=bsky_gu
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Love the phrase “authentic listening skills”. Think this is so often missed and really important. Often something students struggle with more than explaining their ideas.
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Miss Morris
about 1 month ago
#Mathstoday
Year 8 have been doing this Improper Fraction and Mixed Fraction matching task today from MrWhy1089 on TES. Did this with 2 groups, first cut out everything, second only did diagrams and improper fractions to begin with. The second group ended up completing more overall.
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Leaving a school I was visiting today and over-hearing one of our trainees on the phone excitedly telling someone about how her lesson had gone and the feedback she got and how great her mentor is ❤️
about 2 months ago
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Hannah
about 2 months ago
In
#MathsToday
I’ve made the most of the interactive packages on Integral combined with the section tests to set cover work while I’m off 🤧 It is really great that
#CoreMaths
students can get free accounts for the core maths platform on Integral through AMSP.
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Ohh lovely way to introduce rounding to one significant figure to estimate 😍
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about 2 months ago
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According to this, I’m 65+
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Youth Endowment Fund
about 2 months ago
Are you passionate about preventing youth violence and driving evidence-based change? Join us! We have three fantastic roles, with deadlines approaching. Learn more and apply today:
youthendowmentfund.org.uk/careers/?utm...
#YouthEndowment
#Vacancies
#Hiring
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Ben Newmark
about 2 months ago
Yup. The rate limiting step in almost every context I've seen is attention. And you need a teacher to direct this. Almost every tech model starts from the wrong point because it assumes children will want to study the material and won't need their attention managed.
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Sam Freedman
about 2 months ago
Reform are now coming after people with permanent residency. It'll be citizens next. No one is safe from authoritarian governments.
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Jon Severs
about 2 months ago
"If we want to understand why this pipeline leaks, we need to look at the experience of moving to secondary school. For too many disadvantaged pupils, this marks a decline in engagement and enjoyment from which they never recover."
www.tes.com/magazine/ana...
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England’s lost mathematicians should concern us all
New research shows how many disadvantaged students have their enjoyment of maths quashed in secondary school, and it’s a problem that everyone should find alarming
https://www.tes.com/magazine/analysis/secondary/lost-mathematicians-secondary-school-concern
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Sam Freedman
about 2 months ago
Feel like we should bring back the old twitter follow friday to boost good people on here who maybe didn't get an initial boost from the starter packs. So follow
@psurridge.bsky.social
and
@profjanegreen.bsky.social
- two excellent and thoughtful political scientists.
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Anyone here using anything good that schedules posts on Bluesky for free? Trying to use “Bluesky Scheduler” but just getting error messages 🤷🏻♀️
about 2 months ago
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The Guardian
about 2 months ago
It’s come to this: Keir Starmer is now just the warm-up act for Nigel Farage | Aditya Chakrabortty
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It’s come to this: Keir Starmer is now just the warm-up act for Nigel Farage | Aditya Chakrabortty
As Labour flounders and dabbles in the politics of hatred to gain a point or two, it is those far from power who will suffer most, says Guardian columnist Aditya Chakrabortty
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/sep/18/clear-keir-starmer-warm-up-act-nigel-farage?utm_term=Autofeed&CMP=bsky_gu&utm_medium=&utm_source=Bluesky#Echobox=1758173740
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Tes magazine
about 2 months ago
The persistence of the gender pay gap in schools is 'grossly unfair', says
@naht.org.uk
as it calls on the government to urgently conduct a detailed pay equality analysis
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Schools gender pay gap is ‘grossly unfair’
Headteachers’ leaders urge DfE to carry out a detailed pay equality analysis, as report highlights persistent gender gaps
https://www.tes.com/magazine/news/general/schools-gender-pay-gap-grossly-unfair
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Dan Draper
about 2 months ago
#MathsToday
Teaching histograms to year 11 this week and returned to
@drrowlandson.bsky.social
’s amazing planning series to start. So much deep thought and insight in every post! 🙌
ponderingplanning.wordpress.com/2020/06/05/f...
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Filling in the Gaps With Histograms
This blog posts focuses on the sorts of histograms that students see in GCSE Mathematics: histograms with unequal class intervals and where the heights of the bars represent frequency density. …
https://ponderingplanning.wordpress.com/2020/06/05/filling-in-the-gaps-with-histograms/
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Emily Rae
about 2 months ago
A few years ago I turned a bunch of UKMT Senior Maths Challenge papers into self-marking MS Forms (5 questions per form) to set as optional quizzes for students, as a weekly bit of fun. To set them for your students, you need to be signed into Office 365. Click on the link to the quiz, then...
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Paddy MacMahon
about 2 months ago
In
#ALevelMaths
#MathsToday
I tried to persuade pupils that we should think of Newton's Second Law as a=F/m (forces give rise to accelerations) rather than F=ma.
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The Guardian
2 months ago
I thought I was growing up in a racially tolerant Britain. I now realise I was wrong | Rohan Sathyamoorthy
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I thought I was growing up in a racially tolerant Britain. I now realise I was wrong | Rohan Sathyamoorthy
I’ve experienced more racism in the past year than the rest of my life put together – the only answer is for young people to stand up to the far right, says writer Rohan Sathyamoorthy
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/sep/07/racially-tolerant-britain-wrong-racism-far-right?utm_term=Autofeed&CMP=bsky_gu&utm_medium=&utm_source=Bluesky#Echobox=1757236479
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NCETM
about 2 months ago
New Primary Round-up out now: kick-start the year with deeper subject knowledge, mixed-age support, ECT opportunities and more!
mailchi.mp/ncetm/primar...
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Bell Ribeiro-Addy MP
about 2 months ago
A Sikh woman was raped in broad daylight this weekend by white men shouting racist abuse. Racism and misogyny go hand in glove. The mainstreaming of anti-migrant politics and racist rhetoric have created a situation where violence against women is more likely, not less.
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Dale Chapman
2 months ago
Today's Polygons lesson featuring a Gemini created cartoon
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Teacher Tapp
2 months ago
This week marks 8 years of Teacher Tapp and what better way to celebrate than with the questions that unify teachers! 💚🎉 From making a positive impact on students (98%) to strong team relationships (90%), here’s what thousands of you agree on 👇
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Miriam Mason
2 months ago
Help! What is the website called that is like exam wizard but no Edexcel login required?
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National Education Union
2 months ago
🚨 New OECD data: England has one of the worst teacher retention rates in the developed world. ❌ Nearly 1 in 10 teachers quit last year – over 3x the rate in France and Ireland. ❌ Over 90% left before retirement, the highest early-exit rate recorded.
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Nathan Day
2 months ago
In
#MathsToday
, Year 12 and I enjoyed doing some Susan Wall tasks. I particularly enjoyed this one. We matched the graphs up, and then found the coordinates of all the interesting points.
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Catriona Agg
2 months ago
Spent a slightly painful 15 minutes discussing Q2 with Y12 today. The problem wasn’t with spotting the patterns, but trying to formulate that into full sentences. If you teach
#ALevelMaths
, I’d be interested to know how your students get on with similar “describe and explain” tasks.
#MathsToday
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Lovely task for
#ALevelMaths
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