Things I discovered today when comparing the take-home-pay spreadsheets we built in #CoreMaths with the gov.uk calculator: www.gov.uk/estimate-inc... Unlike Income Tax, National Insurance is paid on my gross salary rather than my post-pension-contributions salary;

Next term we'll be running a version of our popular 'Maths into Data Science and AI' course for non-A level Maths students. This 9-session online course is ideal for students of Core Maths or A level Computer Science. You can sign your students up now at: amsp.org.uk/event/b08828...

@ukmathstrust.bsky.social are here! #MathsToday #AlevelMaths #UKMathsChat

#MathsToday #ALevelMaths Away for half term for the last couple of weeks... but here's today's Monday Area Problem. Find the exact value of the green area.

And... half term. Early start on Sunday morning, taking 50 pupils to Uganda!

Looks interesting! #MathsToday euromathsoc.org/news/ems-lec...

The Oxgordshire Youth Maths Conference was fantastic - but then I would say that, so here's Helen saying it so you can believe it! #MathsToday #UKMathsChat PS if you're in a secondary school in Oxfordshire, let me know if you're interested in attending next year.

#MathsToday #ALevelMaths #FurtherMaths Find the exact value of the green area.

Here's our #OCRMathsPuzzle to end this week. 🙂 The vertices of a square just touch four edges of a regular octagon, as below. The area of the square is 32 cm^2. Work out the area of the regular octagon. #MathsToday #UKMathsChat #RecreationalMath #geometry #area

Maclaurin Series in #ALevelMaths #FurtherMaths #MathsToday, so we're building animations using @desmos.com. Here's my effort: www.desmos.com/calculator/z...

A bonus area problem for the end of the week, inspired by a post by @mrlevmaths.bsky.social. Important info from the alt-text: the curve is a parabola. #ALevelMaths #MathsToday

The call for peer reviewers is very real - if you teach maths at the upper end of school through to early university and are interested in maths content useful to people like you, please get in touch via [email protected] - thanks! #MathsToday #UKMathsChat #ALevelMaths #MathToday #MathSky

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.

Lots of SMC practice in #MathsToday.

First @NCTM.org yearbook (1926) here: catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/00006... An interesting take on quadratics! "Nor should we expect to have all the pupils able to factor ax^2+bx+c (a useless accomplishment for most people)" "If the subject is to be valuable, the learning should be a pleasure"

Am off to Kraków soon for a talk on Thursday as part of @unsoundfestival.bsky.social — awesome music festival (with talking bits too). www.unsound.pl/en/unsound-w...

We are proud to be sponsoring 10 places to attend the teacher day at ICTMT17 in London on 22 Oct buff.ly/piLruty Take part in workshops, meet sector leaders, hear MEI’s Tom Button & Natalie Vernon on using Desmos Apply: buff.ly/mnzr2N5 #ICTMT17 #MathsEd

#ALevelMaths #MathsToday Monday area problem. Find the exact value of the green area.

Very proud of our girls in #MathsToday. 19 distinctions and 19 merits in the UKMT Mathematical Competition for Girls.

For more ideas for teaching statistics, check out our new lesson activities designed for Maths Week Scotland. rss.org.uk/resources/ed... #MathsWeekScot

In #MathsToday I'm wondering how to refer to a single @desmos.com instance. Should I tell pupils to 'use this desmos to investigate' or 'use this desmos sheet...' or something else...? Should they 'make a desmos' to illustrate a graph?

I think my geometry students will enjoy making an infinite zoom effect, using the dilation tool in @desmos.com Geometry. Here's an initial attempt. Don't stare at it for too long! 😀 www.desmos.com/geometry/x46... #iTeachMath

In #ALevelMaths #MathsToday we started looking at transformations in terms of how you change the coordinates, using @desmos.com. Next time: encoding (some of) them with matrices. www.desmos.com/calculator/j...

Been able to secure Leeds tickets for tonight so have a pair of Gene tickets for Sheffield on Thursday if anyone is interested? Face value. Gig is sold out. RTs appreciated.

#MathsToday #ALevelMaths Here's Monday's area problem. Find the exact value of the green area. ( #FurtherMaths really, given it's an improper integral...)

In #ALevelMaths #MathsToday we saw that if you make the 'wrong' choice for integration by parts with a logarithm involved, you can still proceed to the correct antiderivative.

Not much time to catch my breath in #MathsToday. We had some twilight training where we used @desmos.com, polypad and Google Drawings to construct diagrams for worksheets and assessments. And lots of our girls did the MOG or the MCG.

#MathsToday Dedication from our girls, preparing for the MOG/MCG at 4:30 on a Wednesday afternoon with @heerpal.bsky.social.

Feedback, please. What do people think of this as an early task in thinking about parametric equations? #ALevelMaths #MathsToday

I love lift problems...! #MathsToday #ALevelMaths

#MathsToday A nice mathsy clue in today's Times Crossword: Select prime locations in Bearsden for facility (4)

#AlevelMaths Envelopes appear in Further Maths, at least for Edexcel and OCR/MEI, and the formula for an envelope is a bit mysterious, so I've been digging into it, and have made a video you might enjoy. youtu.be/AneMSG1EO1U

#MathsToday #ALevelMaths Here's this week's Monday area problem: Find the exact value of the green area.

Using spreadsheets to work out the APR of a loan in #CoreMaths #MathsToday.

Here's this week's #OCRMathsPuzzle. The cross-section of a telecommunication cable is eight small circular cables around a central circular cable. The diameter of each small cable is 4 cm. Work out the diameter of the central circular cable. #puzzle #UKMathsChat #MathsToday #MathSky #iTeachMath

Classic Albums in form time today. We have a two-week timetable, so we can listen to the A-side in week A (today) and the B-side in week B. This week and next: Still Bill by Bill Withers from 1972 (a very good year)

That time of year again... Please share the below booklet with any pupils thinking of studying maths at universities that use interviews as part of the admissions process. www.drfrost.org/downloadable... #MathsToday #AlevelMaths

In #MathsToday these arrived, so ready to put theory into practice with our roulettes...

Also in #ALevelMaths #FurtherMaths #MathsToday, I used this as a starter for U6. Finding the coordinates of S is fun!

#MathsToday #ALevelMaths Used this excellent underground maths resource as a starter for L6 further maths today. Lots of interesting discussion! undergroundmathematics.org/thinking-abo...

#ALevelMaths Love this problem. I find the mistake head-tail 'fakers' make is to artificially curtail runs of heads or of tails.

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.

For more ideas for teaching statistics check out our new lesson activities designed for Maths Week Scotland. rss.org.uk/resources/ed...

If you've never used CODAP before and would like some activities to try (with instructions) we've got some in the @meimaths.bsky.social 'Exploring Data with Technology' resources: mei.org.uk/resource/b5a...

Bear with me, I anticipate your disagreement. There is a clear pattern to the advice given to those who want to press back against rising racism. What it boils down to is that if you point out that racism is often being dressed up as “legitimate concerns” you will alienate people. /1

#MathsToday #ALevelMaths We're looking at parametric equations today, so pupils are trying to animate roulettes using @desmos.com. I'll try to make a guided worksheet for this... This sort of thing is the desired outcome: www.desmos.com/calculator/9...

In #CoreMaths #MathsToday pupils have built a mortgage calculator, and they're using it to answer these questions.

#MathsToday #ALevelMaths Monday's area problem. Find the exact value of the green area.

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