A warm up grid for AQA Paper 2 #ALevelMaths 2026 with a mixture of mechanics questions and pure topics not seen in Paper 1. There's a pdf version, and an editable Word version 🙂 #MathsToday wykecollege-my.sharepoint.com/:f:/g/person...

My student-friendly list for likely topics to revise for paper 2 AQA #ALevelMaths I've also shared my spreadsheet, in case anyone wants to see "behind the curtain" - I didn't share this with students, as I want them to focus on what is still to come! wykecollege-my.sharepoint.com/:f:/g/person...

A warm up grid for AQA Paper 2 #ALevelMaths 2026 with a mixture of mechanics questions and pure topics not seen in Paper 1. There's a pdf version, and an editable Word version 🙂 #MathsToday wykecollege-my.sharepoint.com/:f:/g/person...

#MathsToday AQA topic list for A Level paper 2

My student-friendly list for likely topics to revise for paper 2 AQA #ALevelMaths I've also shared my spreadsheet, in case anyone wants to see "behind the curtain" - I didn't share this with students, as I want them to focus on what is still to come! wykecollege-my.sharepoint.com/:f:/g/person...

Err, are you sure there isn't a more conventional way I could share it? 😅😂 #MathsToday #ALevelMaths

In #mathstoday using gained time to start thinking about #Alevelmaths yr 1 summer work - do you do this and if so what? I was wondering about something on the large dataset but maybe that’s best done closer to exams? Or some yr 1 consolidation? Open to ideas!

Bit of a mixed reaction to AQA #ALevelMaths paper 1. Some students ecstatic, others not so sure. One student review: "SENSATIONAL!" Annoying that we can't see the paper for 24 hours afterwards... surely JCQ know teachers are champing at the bit to get a topic list together 😒

I recently discovered, on a work night out to a bar that had virtual darts, that I'm surprisingly alright at darts. I would trade it in for a good sense of direction, because I have no idea where I am most of the time 😅

Me today, whilst trawling through past papers from other exam boards for revision: "Eww, Edexcel puts the extra 's' in 'L'Hôpital's rule'..." The rest of my colleagues: "Ewww" Who knew we all shared the same maths ick? 😅 #MathsToday

For TMUA, this year I'm revamping my long-running MAT livestream (free support programme, massively popular with Oxford applicants) to focus on the TMUA, now that it's the test that Oxford Mathematics uses. www.maths.ox.ac.uk/r/matlive ^James

Happy half term! 😎✈️🌍

One of my #ALevelMaths further maths students gave me a stamp with the proof by induction conclusion on as a brilliant leaving gift, to save me having to write it out every time 😅🥰 #MathsToday

In #MathsToday it's the final day for year 2, so my A Level Further Maths students had a quiz (with questions taken from the brilliant @draustinmaths.com further maths section for each round)

Students were all buzzing after A Level Further Maths paper 1 (AQA) this afternoon. Haven't seen the paper yet, but sounds like it was nice #MathsToday #ALevelMaths

In #MathsToday I ran the first lunchtime practice session for year 1 #ALevelMaths students planning on taking the TMUA admissions test next year. We got out the big whiteboards and worked on some problems together. This one provoked some good conversations about limits and sums of integrals!

New: Introduction to the Maths of AI (90 mins) For teachers curious about how A level Mathematics links to AI, a short, accessible online session exploring key ideas. 📅 18 June 👉 buff.ly/semDtZq #MathsIntoAI #AlevelMaths

In #MathsToday I got my year 2 #ALevelMaths Further Maths students to write some words of advice for the new students starting in September. A lot of the advice was really good, like "Don't leave your homework until the night before", "Make sure you understand topics as you go along",...

This is utterly appalling. I know from experience how much effort it takes to stand at a podium and read out a lot of names in one go, but it's something that needs to be done by a human, not a machine. (I also try to seek out students beforehand if I need to check the pronunciation of their name)

Liar, Liar, Liar liar, Liar liar liar, Liar liar liar liar liar, Liar liar liar liar liar liar liar liar, Liar liar liar liar liar liar liar liar liar liar liar liar liar. The Fibbernacci sequence

I love the look teenagers born in the late 2000s give you when you try to explain something from the 90s. It's kind of like the look you had when listening to your grandparents talking about the war. Happened to me today when attempting to explain the "Everybody's Free To Wear Sunscreen" song 😅

Hello again new followers. Do put a bio into Bluesky, we’ll all follow you back if we know you are a maths teacher, and are going to interact with us. Even if just to say hello!

Sadly very true 😢

Sorry, but if you have a teaching tattoo, you're taking your job too far.

Does anybody know of any GCSE OCR predicted papers 2 or 5?

Over the past term, my students have started leaving tiny plastic ducks in my classroom. Just 2 or 3 a day, so that I barely noticed at first. On the computer, on the side, on the clock, blu-tacked to the end of my pens...

Wait... so Princeton just didn't have anyone invigilating their exams for the last 133 years, and trusted students not to cheat?! That's wild... www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

Apparently it's 9 years ago since our maths department (staff and students) all became temporarily obsessed with trying to work out the mystery data challenge from (I think) Significance Magazine... #MathsToday

Does anyone else quite enjoy working through the paper after an exam, or is it just me? 😅 (Promised my students I'd do it for tomorrow, as they wanted to compare answers) #MathsToday #ALevelMaths

Evening all. Has anybody made (or know of) knowledge organisers for Edexcel Further Core 2 please?

Ahh, first exam petition of the season. It seems to come around earlier every year...

Anyone do Maths intervention forms? Next year we will have three Y11 forms that are “Maths forms”. We will have 3 x 20 minutes for Maths per week for the whole year (same kids). Looking for inspiration/ see what’s worked for others. What do/ would you do?

Closing date 17 May. Great opportunity to work with the #ALevelMaths team at Cambridge OCR.

Does anyone happen to have produced some practice questions for the ocr core maths b statistical problem solving data set? @paddymacmahon.com #coremaths

Ooh, interesting UKMT update! 👀 Seems like a sensible system, which is already used for the whole of the Senior Kangaroo... 🦘

Maybe some of you are wondering if I’m doing practice papers again this year… I am :) AQA Maths Studies Paper 1 and AQA AS Further Maths Paper 1 will be posted tonight :) #ALevelMaths

Teachers of #ALevelMaths and Further Maths: does anyone actively get students to create flashcards or their own revision materials? If so, how do you find it? I'm thinking of starting it in September, and taking time in lessons at the end of each topic to model what the students should be putting...

I still remember, during the pandemic, Michael Fabricant justifying the drinking culture in Westminster by saying it was no different to teachers and nurses having a "quiet drink" in the staffroom after work... err, what?!

Maths teacher friends - I've just revised my Carom resources, 40 pure extracurricular maths PowerPoints bridging from A Level to University Maths. Great for a sixth form maths club. Everything available for free - google 'carom maths' or try www.carom-maths.co.uk

While we're on the subject of spring questions... why are there so many systems of springs attached to particles suspended in buckets of oil?? Is that even a thing, outside of further maths questions?! #MathsToday

We've reached the time of the year where my further maths #ALevelMaths students have finished the spec, and all they want to revise is differential equation modelling ("spring questions") and De Moivre, and it's all I can do to stop myself yelling "there are lots of other things we need to revise!"

Ohhhhh @1stclassmaths.bsky.social at it again 🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈

I despise this sort of smug take that not being a "dog person" is a reflection on your personality. I'm very wary of dogs because some try to chase or jump at me when I'm out for a run, and many owners make no attempt to control them, so I give them a wide berth. This is not a character flaw.

Working through Variable Acceleration in #MathsToday (yesterday!) with year 12s. Finding out students need a bit more structure than usual so enjoying putting together things to help them work out what to do when! #AlevelMaths

In #ALevelMaths Further Maths, we are addressing the eternal question of "but how was I supposed to know it was a hyperbolic substitution?" #MathsToday

Discovering the 2025 "student friendly" mark schemes and worked papers on AQA All About Maths has cheered me up this afternoon 🥳 Will make going through the mock much easier #ALevelMaths #MathsToday

I'm leaning into booklets for A Level Further Maths this year. Not for lessons as such, but for intervention (eg students working through support booklets whilst sitting in extra lessons) and for revision of previous topics. I like the way an empty box invites an answer #ALevelMaths #MathsToday

Feeling weirdly nostalgic for curly fries, curry sauce and cheese, with welly fudge and pink custard, washed down with an artificially flavoured cup drink 😅 (which cost about £1 in total) www.theguardian.com/education/20...

Im looking for decent animations for some typical mechanics problems. Greatest height reached, rods on point of tilting etc.I rely too much on sketching each scenario/hand gestures! Curriculum time is too tight for practical demos and videos rarely show the nuances of the problem in the way I’d like

I'm sad because my book about metamorphic rocks used in roof tiles got slated.