My latest cartoon for @newscientist.com

Really good sessions at the @amiemathematics.bsky.social FE, Lifelong Learning and Post-16 (Level 3) Education Conference yesterday. Would thoroughly recommend to other FE maths lecturers #FEMaths #mathschat

Loconundrum #91 🟩🟨🟨 🚶‍♂️🚂 🟩🟩🟩

Ooh Craig Barton fans his tips for teachers series are all available on kindle unlimited www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0FQP4227...

Just received my letter to my future self from my school's millennium time capsule. Was and still such a geek 🤓

In #mathstoday I read out the short story Sum by David Eagleman about spending your afterlife living your life again divided into categories like spending months in the shower

Dice at the British museum

Some Friday news… Thrilled to announce that my new book ‘A Circle Of Strangers’ will be published by the brilliant @ofmooseandmen.bsky.social in Spring 2027 💙📚💙 Set in West Wales, it’s the sequel to ‘Christ On A Bike’ that also works as a stand alone novel. Let’s go 💃🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿📚🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿💃 #ACOS #books #booksky

Is being a member of four book clubs too many?

In #mathstoday we worked out how many cats would fit in our classroom as a starter. This was with my functional maths animal group. #femaths

In #mathstoday I used these animations to show a few different area of trapezium proofs to GCSE maths resit group bossmaths.com/g16d/ #femathschat

I challenge you! Too many books in your TBR? Fear not I a kindly Womble Booktempter have my annual TBR Challenge to help you read great books and have some space on the shelves www.runalongtheshelves.net/blog/2025/12...

I have read 50 of 50 books for the 2025 Reading Challenge! What should I read next? www.goodreads.com/user_challen...

Accurate 😅 (although they missed 21, which was the scourge of my early teaching career!) xkcd.com/3184/ #MathsToday

You can buy 'The Researcher's First Murder' by John Finnemore directly from him (he's had to pay for a storage unit to keep them all in). Unbound made sure it couldn't sell last Christmas, let's make it a hit for this one: johnfinnemoreshop.com/shop

In #mathstoday my functional maths group played nrich.maths.org/problems/mat... and then did 100 square modern art. Then we finished off with day 2 of mscroggs advent calendar #FEMaths

What fraction of this is shaded? Can we assume the triangles are all the same area?

Maths lesson material

In #MathsToday we learnt how to play the paper and pen game Blackhole on mini whiteboards #FEMaths

Happy/Merry/Blessed Halloween/Samhain/Spooky Season to all who celebrate!

Big day for FE maths teachers. I wonder what's next?

Teaching with a cold is tough. Being observed twice in one day with a cold even harder

In #MathsToday we constructed penrose triangles using an old SMP instruction page in Functional maths and GCSE resit #FEMaths

A must watch: Storyville, The Librarians: www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m002kkmj via @bbciplayer

In #MathsToday I used the oldie but a goodie Numberphile chicken nugget video. Went down well with Functional skills level 1 learners near the end of their two hour lesson followed by the Nrich coin problem #FEMaths

Cracking Finnish film on iPlayer called Fallen Leaves. Very funny and sweet. Highly recommend

In #mathstoday I used the missing numbers column addition and subtraction sheet from this old gem www.cleavebooks.co.uk/trol/ #FEMaths

I solved the daily Clues by Sam (Sep 22nd 2025) in less than 10 minutes 🟨🟩🟡🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 cluesbysam.com

Delivering inset on how to embed maths into animal care to animal care lecturers. Any ideas? #mathschat #femaths

First observation in twelve years tomorrow eek

In #MathsToday we used this ncetm checkpoint and followed it up with this Don Steward beauty donsteward.blogspot.com/2013/12/near... for Functional Skills level 1 #FEMaths

A fun chart game that primarily sources its data from Our World in Data!

can we get the Pitt in the uk now

In #MathsToday I used www.tes.com/teaching-res... and they went down well with Functional maths learners as part of their introductory lesson #FEMaths

In #MathsToday I used the new mathsbot.com/puzzles/anag... with my GCSE resit group combined with mini whiteboards. #FEMaths

Ooh they mentioned functional skills on Gogglebox #FEmaths

My new book of science cartoons is out soon. Preorder 'Physics for Cats' now at your local bookshop. Or come to @smallpressexpo.bsky.social on 13th and 14th September where I will be signing and doodling in copies. More details and other tour stops to come! @dandq.bsky.social @canongate.co.uk

Couldn't resist picking up a second hand copy of Sea State after hearing it mentioned on the What page are you on podcast

Happy Pythagorean Triple Day to all who celebrate!

Anyone know where I can GCSE maths resit data for FE by previous grade? #FEmaths

Calling all Maths teachers! What are some of your all-time great tasks for secondary Maths? Ones that could have their place in any curriculum, one that should be studied in PGCE courses, ones that started whole new genres of tasks... ... or just ones you really like. (see some of mine below)

🆕 Disadvantaged students fall behind by a fifth of a grade in English and one eighth of a grade in maths compared with their better-off peers when resitting GCSEs, new research shows feweek.co.uk/significant-...

Have you had enough of our #MathsJokes yet? Well, sorry, we’re not done yet. Got to milk #InternationalJokeDay all we can. Speaking of milking, here’s a joke about cows… #MathsWeekScot #MathsToday #UKMathsChat

Got my new timetable for next year already hurray. Two hours of GCSE resit, 15 minutes break, two hours of Functional Maths is going to require a good breakfast

Lovely time at #mathsconf38 My takeaways were definitely going to look into more about ratio tables. Loved using them for inverse proportion. Going to use more etymology. Also going to look into visualisers. (For future first timers you get free lunch and coffee)

Which teacher planners do people recommend?

I’m going to miss this wall a lot

Damn teaching my last evening class at the same time as the women's prize announcement. Will just have to wait two hours.

Besotted with this labyrinth locator: labyrinthlocator.org