For teachers: Agree or disagree? There is currently a shortfall in high-quality maths enrichment. Aside from the usual competitions, out-of-classroom experiences and/or engaging speakers are hard to find. What enrichment is actually working for your school? #UKMathsChat #MathsToday

Very proud of my wife, just passed her citizenship test! Just one bit of papaerwork to go ❤️🥳🇬🇧

#MathsToday Trying this out with some of my weaker groups for those who can't abstract the remainders for bus stop. I know someone somewhere will have given this a name but for now I'm calling it Medium Division 😂

Hi all The language of geometry series continues as we look at all (well, most) things circles. Enjoy! open.substack.com/pub/jwrightm...

In #MathsToday Three Year 5 pupils finding 'in-between' numbers, starting with 486 and 5361 and ending with 486.53. I was impressed!

#MathsToday Trying this out with some of my weaker groups for those who can't abstract the remainders for bus stop. I know someone somewhere will have given this a name but for now I'm calling it Medium Division 😂

After 20 years in #maths #education I thought I knew everything there was to know about #fractions. That is until a video crossed my path with a beautifully simple result. Read my latest (relatively short) blog post to find out what the result was: educatingmrmattock.blogspot.com/2026/06/an-a...

Hi all The language of geometry series continues as we look at all (well, most) things circles. Enjoy! open.substack.com/pub/jwrightm...

Hi all The ever-expanding shape series continues, this time looking at perimeter and area of polygons. Enjoy, and share if you find it useful! open.substack.com/pub/jwrightm...

Very excited to announce that I have had my first article, 'On the flipping of coins', and co-written with my former pupil & maths PhD candidate Ashleigh, published in the @amiemathematics.bsky.social's journal 'The Mathematical Gazette'. Read the article here: www.tandfonline.com/eprint/XWV7W...

Hi all The ever-expanding shape series continues, this time looking at perimeter and area of polygons. Enjoy, and share if you find it useful! open.substack.com/pub/jwrightm...

Ooops, that video had a glitch (thanks to @jwrightmaths.bsky.social for pointing it out). The replacement is here: youtu.be/MZEmdHpyk7w

Hey folks, the shape series continues now looking at the inner workings and anatomy of 2D shapes, especially circles, and how prefixes and suffixes often align nicely. open.substack.com/pub/jwrightm...

Hey folks, the shape series continues now looking at the inner workings and anatomy of 2D shapes, especially circles, and how prefixes and suffixes often align nicely. open.substack.com/pub/jwrightm...

Hi everyone! The shape series continues as we delve into the language of triangles and quadrilaterals. Subscribers (who get access a day early for free, btw) already seem to be finding it useful, so check it out and plase share if you like! open.substack.com/pub/jwrightm...

Hi everyone! The shape series continues as we delve into the language of triangles and quadrilaterals. Subscribers (who get access a day early for free, btw) already seem to be finding it useful, so check it out and plase share if you like! open.substack.com/pub/jwrightm...

New blog to start my Term 5 shape series. Starting off looking at the naming of polygons. Enjoy! open.substack.com/pub/jwrightm...

New blog to start my Term 5 shape series. Starting off looking at the naming of polygons. Enjoy! open.substack.com/pub/jwrightm...

Hi all Final post of the term, talking about compound measures with trickier units, like minutes. Enjoy! open.substack.com/pub/jwrightm...

An almost Pythagoras proof found on the floor of the hotel I’m staying in.

Hi all Final post of the term, talking about compound measures with trickier units, like minutes. Enjoy! open.substack.com/pub/jwrightm...

No blog this week folks, but the units series will wrap up next week to see us into Easter! If you've liked it so far, please share with colleagues, be they secondary maths, science, KS2 or FE!

My year 13s are struggling with reverse chain rule, so wrote these as a bridging task before we look at adjusting to get a reverse chain rule result. #MathsToday #ALevelMaths

A few weeks ago, I asked for different ways a student might notice they've made a mistake. I'd now love your ideas for techniques that can students use to check their answers. e.g. - substitute a solution back in to check it works - redo a question with a different method bsky.app/profile/nath...

Hi everyone! This week's blog is about compound measures, and how to reframe them so we can eventually bin the triangles! Feel free to share this with science colleagues too! open.substack.com/pub/jwrightm...

Marking some exam Qs today For “Write a power of 5 from this list.” about half of my class (Y11 F) had written 1^5=1, 2^5=32 etc… (none of which were in the list) And I realised that our language around indices/powers is so unhelpful, and why so many were making mistakes. #MathsToday

Been reeling all afternoon in #MathsToday having discovered the vertex formula for quadratics!

Hi everyone! This week's blog is about compound measures, and how to reframe them so we can eventually bin the triangles! Feel free to share this with science colleagues too! open.substack.com/pub/jwrightm...

This is the second in a series of videos exploring popular #mathshacks or #mathstricks and the understanding behind why they work. In this hack I explore the trick that allows you to square numbers close to 100 mentally. Watch the full video here: youtu.be/ZkXl7aaYKaw

#Mathstoday Had 2 tests today and 1 lesson where we did more two step equations. Lessons are planned for tomorrow and Monday tho! Can't stay after school tomorrow since I'm up on the train to Manchester to go to Teacher Talk Connect.

In #MathsToday I have used the AQA shadow papers to create some "second chance" papers for my Further #ALevelMaths students, to give them the opportunity to have another go at questions they previously got wrong in the mocks, but feel they could now do. Selling it to them as their redemption arc 😅

#Mathstoday Lots of algebra tiles with Year 9 today. Solving 2 step equations.

Hi all The units series continues, now looking at how to convert with a ratio table...apologies to @fantasticmaths.bsky.social for stealing the gimmick 😂 #MathsToday open.substack.com/pub/jwrightm...

Hi all The units series continues, now looking at how to convert with a ratio table...apologies to @fantasticmaths.bsky.social for stealing the gimmick 😂 #MathsToday open.substack.com/pub/jwrightm...

Have an early TGT for International Women's Day, because Beatrice Shilling, 'the girl who can fix anything' was born this day 1909. A remarkable life, which included fixing a fuel-flow fault in Hurricanes and Spitfires during WWII. Tell your tutees about her tomorrow. bit.ly/TutorGroupThink

This #WorldBookDay, here's the author of The Mathematicians' Library in a library with some maths books. uk.bookshop.org/a/16778/9781...

Hi all! This week's blog looks at, now we know about prefixes, how can we convert units? This week looks at the logic and questioning side, with one possible method. Next week will look from another angle. Enjoy! open.substack.com/pub/jwrightm...

Would love to get this series seen by primary colleagues folks, if you like it please consider passing it along!

Hi all! This week's blog looks at, now we know about prefixes, how can we convert units? This week looks at the logic and questioning side, with one possible method. Next week will look from another angle. Enjoy! open.substack.com/pub/jwrightm...

- an answer that gives a probability greater than 1 or an acute angle greater than 90° - getting one answer when the question said 'solutions' (or vice versa) - a transformation/graph/chart going off the given axes - getting a mean/median not within the range of the data

Lots of new sequences resources added to the site today: ✨Problems with arithmetic sequences ✨Problems with quadratic sequences ✨Recurrence relations ✨Generating different types of sequences All freely available at www.draustinmaths.com/sequences #MathsToday #UKMathsChat

A new A level task. Really enjoyed watching the students think about this one: kshancock.co.uk/aleveltasks.... #MathsToday

- a non-calc question requiring some rather involved calculations - an answer not matching the form requested in the question (e.g. a+b√c) - an answer that doesn't work when substituted back into the question - an answer that doesn't use all the information given in the question

What warning signs could students pick up on that they might have gone wrong in an answer? e.g. - an unexpected negative/decimal answer, - an answer requiring many more/fewer steps than the number of marks would suggest, - an answer that would be weird in context (e.g. a taxi costing £3000) ...

Hi everyone! After a chaptic end of term, I found the time to write a couple more blogs. The theme for the next few is units, starting off with base prefixes. Enjoy! (Also, if you have any primary colleagues, please consider sharing this with them) open.substack.com/pub/jwrightm...

Been meaning to get to this one for a while. There's so many niche mathematical notation quirks that come up and appear differently in different places, sometimes it's hard to tell what the intended notation is meant to be! #mathstoday #alevelmaths #ukmathschat open.substack.com/pub/vmnalex/...

Hi everyone! After a chaptic end of term, I found the time to write a couple more blogs. The theme for the next few is units, starting off with base prefixes. Enjoy! (Also, if you have any primary colleagues, please consider sharing this with them) open.substack.com/pub/jwrightm...

It's official, my Substack now has enough traction that the bots have found it. Thanks everyone 😂

#Mathstoday Today and yesterday Year 10 have been doing simultaneous equations starting with practicing adding and subracting 2 equations before moving on to figuring out which they should use to get only 1 term then solve.

Is there anyone who teaches AQA GCSE maths who would be willing to give me a whistle stop tour of what’s available exam paper support wise? I know Edexcel’s stuff inside out but want to support ECTs who are teaching AQA with where to find things for year 11!