#BookSky My list of books read in the past year. More than I thought, and I intend to spend more time reading this year as well. First book of 2026 finished is Network Effect by Martha Wells, continuing my read through of the " Murderbot Diaries". The list is not chronological.

Happy New Year! Thank you to everyone who continues to support my site through spreading the word, buying coffees and reporting mistakes. Many more resources to come in 2026, starting with some harder indices practice strips I've made for my Year 9s next week. Enjoy! #MathsToday #UKMathsChat

These unit sheets are so versatile. I’ve done them with the Edexcel SoW. Set them as a cover lesson with the guiding video, use them in class as a lesson or set them as homework. Perfect for KS4. www.hannahkettlemaths.co.uk/cover

#Art and #mathematics are not - and never have been - mutually exclusive, non-intersecting disciplines. www.sciencealert.com/oldest-known... "People visualized divisions, sequences, and balance through their art." 🏛️🎓 #MathsToday

A belated Merry Christmas! 🎄🎁 Some new resources added today: ✨ Generating formulae from words match-up ✨Quadratic formula problem in context practice grid Find them both at www.draustinmaths.com/algebra #UKMathsChat #MathsToday

Open up this picture fully. Then look at the surface of Mars. Then look up to the top right. Spot Mars' moon Phobos high in the sky. Then notice the bright spot beside Phobos. That's Earth.

Problem of the Week 153! Please do not comment the solution so others can work it out too. Instead, like this post or comment a thumbs up if you think you have the correct answer! The solution will be posted in the comments later in the New Year. #Problem #UKMT #Maths

Before it's let loose on creating art & music and stealing jobs can we just get AI to sort out the important stuff for mankind. So far on my list in no particular order; cure cancer, end world poverty, make a printer that connects and works when you want it to.

This is a photo of the surface of an asteroid It was taken from the *surface*I of that asteroid By a *bouncing rover* the size of a lunchbox (1/2)

Topic Frequency Data updated to include J25 and N25. Spreadsheet download here: www.1stclassmaths.com/topic-freque...

New! My 194th gems post. Ideas, resources and updates for maths teachers. 💎 www.resourceaholic.com/2025/12/5-ma... Hat tips to follow. #mathstoday #ukmathschat #alevelmaths

Proportionality Graphs Practice Questions 🎉 Brand new booklet (12 questions!) 🎉 ✅ Answers added ✅ 🍿🎬 Video solutions created (13 minutes worth!) 🎬🍿 corbettmaths.com/2025/12/03/p...

It was "Calculated Colouring" for me, with some Substitution and a Christmas theme this afternoon. After playing one session of Pirate Game in the morning, my throat needed the rest... #MathsToday

AQA produced a great little booklet called "Small Things Make A big Difference", for GCSE students, with actual examples of this. store.aqa.org.uk/content/gcse...

This. I put this up after marking and ask the class what it is....

Word of the day, should you be feeling a little huffish, is ‘apanthropy’ (18th century): a love of solitude and the desire to be away from other people.

Rewatched some Star Trek tonight. Still wild how a show about warp drives and weird nebulae ends up teaching the cleanest lessons about being human. Every episode says the same thing in its own way: ‘Be curious. Be brave. …Try not to fire phasers unless you really have to.”

Angles drawn in the same segment. Trying to emphasise that they should be drawn from the same (red) chord #maths #mathstoday

This is great. Lots of little tips and tools some of which I did know, but others that are new to me... #MathsToday #UKMathsChat

Stunning footage from earlier today, when the new Kilauea eruption covered the USGS Webcam 3, which is situated in the Halemaʻumaʻu crater near the southern rim of the much larger Kilauea caldera. This *isn't* what the people of Pompeii saw. But it's not very far off.

Batma Returns is a Christmas movie.

New resources on congruency added to the website today: ✨Congruent triangles practice strips ✨Congruent triangle proof practice grid Find them here: www.draustinmaths.com/geometry #UKMathsChat #MathsToday

COMIC: Cadbury Chocolate

Algebra Mazes, fun new #mathpuzzle from @danielscher.bsky.social www.sineofthetimes.org/introducing-... with a dynamic interface, of cource!

Used the wonderful MathsPad tangent drawing tool tool today with Y11. They loved coming up to the board to try and position the perfect tangent! Seeing this immediate, very visible, feedback before they all started drawing independently was so useful. #MathsToday www.mathspad.co.uk/interactives...

Pope Leo XIV told students not to use artificial intelligence for homework, saying that AI ‘won’t stand in authentic wonder before the beauty of God’s creation.’

In #MathsToday, because of residentials this week, I will only see my Y7 class in bits. So I started Don Steward's "Expression Pyramids" with them. It's a great set of tasks which build up to a really nice conclusion .Thanks to @mathsjem.bsky.social's www.resourceaholic.com for leading me to it.

Mathematical Miscellany #100 Jonathan Hall - Misconceptions Added to my Misconceptions collection, this brain dump of mathematical misconceptions from Jonathan Hall on Bluesky. Looking forward to this RISP revision from Jonny Griffiths. In the meantime, head to my RISPS page for RISP publications…

www.tiktok.com/@itvnews/vid... ITV news piece on influencers, predictions and exams. Still some people don’t think TikTok is an issue.

I find this image remarkable. It's of the nucleus of comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko, photographed by the ESA Rosetta spacecraft. That bright white plume is a jet of dust and water ice blasting from the nucleus—helping form the comet's long, dusty tail as it approaches the Sun.

Relying on ChatGPT to teach you about a topic leaves you with shallower knowledge than Googling and reading about it, according to new research that compared what more than 10,000 people knew after using one method or the other. Shared by @gizmodo.com: buff.ly/yAAHtHq

Want to see a subtle use of AI? Just started watching "Last Samurai Standing" on @netflix.com. Chose "English with English Subtitles". The mouth movements as the characters talk match the dub track. I checked by switching to the original Japanese. Not sure now if the voice track is AI as well...😧

This asbestos metaphor is brilliant.

It's been a few weeks since any updates, but here are some new resources from this week's teaching of solving equations: ✨Linear equations with fractional coefficients practice grid ✨Solving quadratics by factorising sort it out www.draustinmaths.com/algebra #MathsToday #UKMathsChat #MathsResources

I like that @aqaeducation.bsky.social have made resources like exampro free for centres, but PLEASE make a decision where to find other resources. No point promoting "new" All About Maths that *doesn't* yet have Summer 2025 papers on it. They are still hidden in Centre Services! #mathsteachers

If any kids go "6-7!" to you, respond with "That's Numberwang!"

Hmm. Not getting the same vibe from my effort this year.

A reminder that the original Hallowe'en jack o' lanterns date back to 18th century Ireland if not earlier, were based on a shady boozy blacksmith called Stingy Jack who cheated the devil & was trapped between 2 worlds, were carved from turnips and looked like this:

New! My 193rd gems post. Ideas, resources and updates for maths teachers. 💎 www.resourceaholic.com/2025/10/5-ma... Hat tips to follow. #mathstoday #ukmathschat

A rare night out to see Matilda at The Curve in Leicester. Fashionably early of course.

Oooh like that! Hardle 11/10/2025 | 5/10 🟨⬛⬛⬛⬛ 1️⃣0️⃣ ⬛⬛🟩🟩⬛ 0️⃣2️⃣ 🟩⬛⬛⬛🟨 1️⃣1️⃣ 🟩🟩🟩🟩⬛ 0️⃣4️⃣ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 0️⃣5️⃣ Play #hardle on hardle.org

*Gah* It doesn’t MATTER whether ChatGPT’s solution is right, it matters whether you UNDERSTAND!

Made this Circle Theorems and Trigonometry worksheet inspired by interwoven maths @nathanday.bsky.social in #Mathstoday PPT and answers here: chelekmaths.com/most-recent-...

#MathsToday Really enjoyed the first of the AMSP L2 FM Subject Knowledge Live sessions tonight. Some good questions and lots of Maths thinking. #MathsTeachers