I keep hearing great things about Phantom Peak. I'm planning on going in July. For anyone else reading this, we did The Shrewsbury Express escape room which is my current favourite, so highly recommend that. Live actors but not scary, just very very funny.

Best Guess paper and Video Tutorial - November Paper 2 Edexcel Foundation @1stclassmaths.bsky.social @mathsjem.bsky.social @themathsbazaar.bsky.social static1.squarespace.com/static/67560...

Maths teachers who like puzzles and escape rooms - I very much recommend Phantom Peak in London. Went there yesterday for my daughter’s birthday. Four hour immersive mystery/adventure experience. Wasn’t sure what to expect and thought we might hate it but it was brilliant. So original and quirky. 👍

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Unduly excited to get my TMUA resources mentioned in Jo's latest gems post (alongside many other excellent resources). Since there is another round of TMUA in January, you may still find them useful: they're at www.tes.com/teaching-res...

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

Latest blog post: 'Thinking About Perpendicular Bisectors' looks at teaching compass and ruler constructions for undertanding by breaking it down into small steps. 🔗 wp.me/p9t8DE-r0 #EduSky #Mathschat #MathSky

I've been reading up a bit on the British Mathematical Olympiads, and two things have amused me: 1) The BMO2 was known as "FIST" until 1991, when, presumably, someone realised it wasn't a great name for an exam 😅 2) The early past papers (1972 onwards) were just sort of bashed out on a typewriter

I love breaking the unspoken rule about fraction diagrams (all pieces congruent, not just equal in area). Here are a few of my favourite non-standard representations. A one radian sector fills half the unit square, the curves y = x² and y = √x enclose 1/3 of the square. Can you come up with more?

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Give your students an edge for Oxford & Cambridge interviews! Free, online 30-minute practice to build confidence, gain expert guidance and experience of interview format. 24 Nov-12 Dec Apply now 👉 buff.ly/FpCOZ1O #OxbridgeMaths #TeacherSupport

New post: tasks with scaffolding www.resourceaholic.com/2025/10/task... #mathstoday #ukmathschat

Anyone got any good Halloween maths resources? Already raided resourcaholic! @mathsjem.bsky.social

Anyone got any bright ideas about tackling AI use at A level. Issues around homework in particular. Thank you @ecrmaths.bsky.social @mathsjem.bsky.social @drbennison.bsky.social

My thoughts and reflections after an excellent #MathsConf39 by @lasalleed.bsky.social www.atulranatutors.co.uk/uncategorize...

Left: Requires triangle-interior-angle-sum and straight-angle-sum. 3 steps. Slower? Right: Exterior Angle Theorem (Euclid 1–32). Requires corresponding and alternate angles. 1 step. Faster? Right feels cleaner to me ... I wonder what pupils would think? #UKMathsChat #iTeachMaths

#mathstoday I've had in the past students finding it difficult to decide if an expression would factorise into a single or double bracket. So I created a mix of 20 questions to try and build that skill of deciding which one to use. Unsurprisingly a lot of them struggled. Better now than an exam!

New percentages resources from Y9 lessons this week: ✨Mixed percentages fill in the blanks ✨Compound and simple interest fill in the blanks ✨Missing interest rates practice strips Find them at www.draustinmaths.com/percentages #UKMathsChat #MathsToday

Yesterday I spoke about patterns in Don Steward's answers at #mathsconf39. Coincidentally I was revising with my Y7 daughter this morning (she has a test tomorrow) & gave her two of Don's algebra pyramids. She was delighted to get the same answer twice so I checked the rest... :)

Post-#MathsConf39 drinks

Packed room as usual for @mathsjem.bsky.social session reintroducing the wonderful Don Steward problems. Five years since we lost him.

The utter genius and joy of using Don Steward tasks by @mathsjem.bsky.social #MathsConf39

Drinks at the Ordnance Arms after #mathsconf39 🍻

Iteration mathshko.com/2025/10/10/i...

Next cover lesson is up! Unit 2 Foundation - simplifying expressions, indices, expanding, factorising and substitution etc. Print the double sided worksheet and use the video to support students. www.hannahkettlemaths.co.uk/cover #mathstoday

Maths Inset today! Always a pleasure to spend the day with my lovely team. And I’m excited to attend another conference tomorrow - looking forward to #mathsconf39!

any good reading on primary to secondary transition in maths? #maths ##mathstoday @mathsjem.bsky.social @jemmaths.bsky.social @mrmattock.bsky.social

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

Hi Maths folk, does anyone know of handy booklets to use for A-level maths intervention? Hoping for something that has questions that are easier and then build up to more exam style? Thanks for any help (also anything for Alevel FM would be appreciated) @mathsjem.bsky.social @drbennison.bsky.social

Heyo! I have a meeting with area leaders on numeracy across the curriculum. What are high-performing departments doing here? I want to avoid any shoe-horning! @mathsjem.bsky.social

TMUA Paper 2 preparation material *available now as editable PowerPoint* at www.tes.com/teaching-res... A page of logical equivalents to help students convert "A only if B" statements (which melt my brain) into "A implies B" or "if A then B" (which don't).

This is always a fun day in precalc - lots of friendly arguments

More free resources for students preparing for TMUA Paper 2 logic: two MCQ review tests on the key topics, including necessary and sufficient conditions; counterexamples; contrapositive; converse; quantifiers and negation; logically equivalent statements. Answers too. www.tes.com/teaching-res...

[New Post] Ontario Math Links - My favourite #math related links from this week: ontariomath.blogspot.com/2025/09/math... Links and help from @mathsjem.bsky.social @edutopia.org @howiehua.bsky.social @murrayh83.bsky.social #MathChat #MTBoS #iTeachMath

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Mitchell and Webb on teaching maths… 😂 youtu.be/8AeCo3AD1cM?...

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

Supporting students for the upcoming TMUA/MAT maths entrance exams? Two free resources to help (both with answers) at www.tes.com/teaching-res... and www.tes.com/teaching-res...

New! My 192nd gems post. Ideas, updates and resources for maths teachers. 💎 www.resourceaholic.com/2025/09/5-ma... Hat tips to follow. #mathstoday #ukmathschat #alevelmaths #iteachmath

Our Year 11s love Papers Society! 150 students voluntarily stayed after school yesterday to do maths GCSE papers in the canteen.

Made this for my year 11. Not the most exciting and not a lot of variety in types but they wanted practice factorsing with quadratics mathshko.com/2019/10/04/alg…

Thank you for the feature! Unit 1 for Higher has gone up today and I’ve given them a more permanent home here: www.hannahkettlemaths.co.uk/cover

My daughter is doing her Sparx and she just spotted the Chrome now offers in-built AI homework cheating (see button at the top right - takes you straight to AI tools that answer the question for you). FFS.

Hat tips! 🎩 Thanks to @neechmaths.bsky.social @hannahkettlemaths.bsky.social @missradders.bsky.social @mrs-p-maths.bsky.social @mathspadnicola.bsky.social @draustinmaths.com @catrionaagg.bsky.social @mrlevmaths.bsky.social @karenshancock.bsky.social @nathanday.bsky.social @1stclassmaths.bsky.social

New! My 192nd gems post. Ideas, updates and resources for maths teachers. 💎 www.resourceaholic.com/2025/09/5-ma... Hat tips to follow. #mathstoday #ukmathschat #alevelmaths #iteachmath

In #MathsToday, Year 12 looked at some graph intersections and solving some simultaneous equations, and then sketching the graphs!

Tuesday’s lesson with Y12 was something no we talked about lots in last years A Level Pedagogy Work Group - the importance of explicitly teaching pupils how to sketch graphs. Was also good to teach them Desmos skills like rescaling the axes. #MathsToday #ALevelMaths

Not strictly #MathsToday but I was asked to spend time this afternoon sharing strategies with colleagues around how to secure strong A Level outcomes, here is what I talked about..