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I'd put all the formulae in the formula booklet, tbh. When will a student ever need to use a formula and not have immediate access to a book or Google to look it up? (It winds me up that they have to remember Yates' Correction, for no reason whatsoever!)

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

Looking to benefit from experience of #mathstoday crew. Just started in a secondary after working in Pri and middle. V high PP. Teaching groups include tiny bottom sets. Ss struggle with basic skills, attendance & focus. Rewarding & challenging work but interested to know what's worked for others?

In #MathsToday it's #CoreMaths preliminary material day! I'm not actually teaching Core this year, but had a little nosy anyway. I see that for student loans, AQA has now included info on RPI/interest... very topical!

Marking #ALevelMaths mocks again, using the start-at-the-back method. Nothing will ever beat the rush of finishing with a run of quick easy markers 😄 #MathsToday

Here's a neater version.

#MathsToday does anyone know of a basic numeracy package that monitors progress, diagnoses gaps etc that could be used with KS3/4? If it could be run by a non specialist even better.

My primary school had precisely three (3) videos that were shown, on rotation, on a wet lunchtime: 1) The Land Before Time (best film ever 🦕🦖) 2) Homeward Bound (heartwarming and uplifting 🐈‍⬛🐕) 3) Watership Down (children returned to afternoon lessons traumatised and depressed 🐇💀)

I was talking to some #ALevelMaths students recently about the notation for repeated derivatives (f', f'', f''', etc) and there was a split opinion over whether we should use Roman numerals or switch to (4), (5) etc for higher derivatives. This throws a further spanner in the works... #MathsToday

I just bought a new clock for my kitchen, and noticed that the number 4 is written as IIII rather than IV... so I googled it, and it turns out it's a whole thing on most clocks with Roman numerals?? How have I reached the age of 40 and never noticed this before?! share.google/vcGsZGUYALPb...

I've added a new section to the site today - A-level Revision. Over the next few months I hope to add to the revision resources, starting with four A-level grids - algebraic methods, quadratics, exponentials and logs, and circle geometry. www.draustinmaths.com/revision #ALevelMaths #MathsToday

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What baffles me is that he applied for the two roles in 2024 and 2025, and put different details on the application forms, at a school he already worked at. If I suddenly started telling my colleagues that I was 35 and went to Cambridge, they would probably notice! www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Change in admissions procedure for Maths at Cambridge applications. From 2027 entry (so those currently in year 12), all Maths applicants are required to take TMUA. www.maths.cam.ac.uk/undergrad/ad... #Alevelmaths #UKmathschat #TMUA

Here are the FOUR best ways of getting to grips with (and teaching) the 83/85 and 991 1) Casio have made interactives for each calculator: education.casio.co.uk/resources/ma... education.casio.co.uk/resources/ma...

Was just thinking how nice it is not to set an alarm during half term, when I remembered my new sofa is being delivered tomorrow between 7am and 10am 😴 (But also, yay, new sofa!)

Rather than forcing children into school for more time during the hottest months of the year, why aren't we talking about the "bizarre" inflexibility of most full-time (non-teaching) jobs, which make them incompatible with raising a family? share.google/2qPa4aOntFBV...

Is it even half term if you don't have an unscheduled afternoon nap on the sofa? 😴

Good morning friends. We are getting an extra hour a fortnight with Year 8 from September. We want to use the time to enrich the curriculum. I'm looking for interesting problem solving activities, possibly taking us outside the classroom. Any ideas gratefully received! #MathsToday

I love this. I can still remember, by heart, the landline telephone numbers of my childhood friends...

Excited to be going to the MEI conference this year 🙌 I haven't been in probably about 15 years. Seeing lots of familiar names on the list of presenters when picking my sessions 😊

In #MathsToday we were exploring polar curves. I suggested that, with Valentine's Day fast approaching, the students could try to impress that special someone with a nice graph. I'm not sure they were convinced 🤣

In #MathsToday my year 1 further maths students were in a computer room playing around with polar graphs on Desmos. It was so great to hear their discussions about the shapes of the graphs, trying to figure out why they were shaped the way they were. #ALevelMaths

Age verification? I used to express my emotional state to my friends by writing song lyrics in my MSN Messenger bio.

Does anyone happen to have a set of questions on Game Theory, specifically where the pay-off matrices have unknowns (eg k) in them? This one is from the AQA guidance document. Thanks! #ALevelMaths #MathsToday

Teachers: Which is the worst half term of the year, and why is it this one? 😵‍💫😴

I'm sure noone is surprised by this...

Core Maths teachers - I’m looking at misleading diagrams/charts with my class on Friday. Anyone got any ‘great’ ones I can share with them? I’m going to use this classic but on the look out for a few more crackers @ecrmaths.bsky.social @davegjones.bsky.social @coremathscat.bsky.social

What’s everyone’s experience of students managing their maths exercise books? Loose worksheets are a problem. We’ve tried gluing in but then it can get costly. We’re currently trialing hole punching books and using treasury tags but students struggle with the dexterity needed & organisation. Ideas?

In #MathsToday I asked some students if they knew where another student in their friendship group was, and they said "Oh, we can check on Life360, we have a group on there" and pulled out their phones. Kind of wild that they basically have a Marauders Map where they can see where their friends are 😅

In #MathsToday it is my birthday (I've been around the sun 40 times!) and my #ALevelMaths students have created a secret message for me to decode using equations and graphs, and left it on my desk this morning 🥰

In #MathsToday one of my students told me that Cloudflare uses lava lamps to collect random data for its Internet encryption, and I think that is very cool 🤩 share.google/GC81XPzKa90g...

In #MathsToday my #ALevelMaths students were talking about how much they used to get from the tooth fairy. I said I got 50p. One of them had the audacity to muse, "Yeah, but that would be, like, £10 in today's money" 🤬 I made them Google inflation since the early 90s, and work it out 🤣 It's ~£1.34

Can you have an error interval in litres±m²? 🤔

This looks great! Thanks for sharing 😊

Just opened Bluesky to 28 notifications! Would never have happened for me on the other place. Love #Edusky

A woman in Sainsbury's is trying to work out whether the larger or smaller box of cereal is better value (the small one is on offer), and the maths teacher in me is itching to go over and give her a lesson in best buys 🤣 #MathsToday

There's a vent in my classroom that makes a spooky whistling/rattling noise when the wind blows a certain way. In #MathsToday we were doing modular arithmetic; I'd just explained that 2 x 3 = 1 (in mod 5) when the noises started. The students all looked up as though we had angered some spirits 🤣

Me in further #MathsToday: "Colin Maclaurin was a child prodigy, who went to university at the age of 11 and was a professor by the age of 19... which does beg the question, what are you lot even doing with your lives?" 🤔🤣 #ALevelMaths

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Big change from Oxford University! For 2027 entry onwards they will use the TMUA (October sitting) for maths and not the MAT. I am off to update SUMS magazine for current Year 12 students 😂 @meimaths.bsky.social www.ox.ac.uk/admissions/u...

Big Oxford applications news... the MAT and PAT are being replaced with the TMUA and ESAT for 2027 entry... #ALevelMaths #MathsToday www.ox.ac.uk/admissions/u...

Self care is taking home your dodgy interactive whiteboard pen that keeps falling apart while you're trying to teach, and supergluing it to save your own sanity 😂

#maths What would you remove from the current Maths GCSE? Anything you’d add?

In #MathsToday I was telling some of my students how I was in Australia when my GCSE results were released, so I had to arrange a time with my teacher to ring the school from a landline so that she could read the results out to me, and their look of horror at the antiquity of it was brilliant 🤣

Has anyone here used Magma Maths and what do you think of it?

In #MathsToday I realised I had made an error when planning out the (very tight on time) scheme of work for further maths, and I actually have a WHOLE EXTRA WEEK of lessons before the AS exam in May. I'm giddy with the prospect of what extra revision activities I might do 🤩🤣

Introducing the Euler step by step method for differential equations with my further maths students tomorrow, so it's time to show them the clip from Hidden Figures where Katherine Johnson uses it to find the trajectory of a space capsule 😃🚀 youtu.be/v-pbGAts_Fg?... #MathsToday #ALevelMaths

In #mathstoday, I motivated z-scores by asking who was faster - Michael Phelps or Usain Bolt? In past years, I had done this after introducing z-scores, but starting with the question prompted great discussion: "You can't compare them. They're different sports." www.desmos.com/calculator/d... 1/5