I'm being asked to verify my age before I can access my bluesky account. Is this normal or is it a scam?

Brilliant! www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/sponsored/vi... Now then, @uklabour.bsky.social tell me how your trade deal with POTUS is putting the interests of working people on the Humber Estuary first? From where I am, you have sold us down the river. #Hull

A picture not dissimilar to that of Hiroshima, 80 years ago to the day. Such is the scale of devastation and misery.

Looking at all schls across England over the last 10 years: as the proportion of schls judged good or better by Ofsted has increased so has the proportion of pupils being suspended or permanently excluded. Is there a relationship at schl level? Higher excluders more likely getting higher grades?

BBC News - School suspensions rise to nearly a million in England www.bbc.com/news/article...

@atmmathematics.bsky.social #UKMathsChat #iTeachMaths #EduSky #UKTeaching

2.1 x 2.2 × 2.3 = 10.626 I'm comfortable with 10.626 being called the product. Are you comfortable with 2.1, 2.2 and 2.3 being called factors? Are you comfortable with non-integer factors? And, if they are not factors, what are they called? #ukmathschat #needtoknow

The Mackems have made it!!!

I'm beginning to like ChatGPT. In response to my earlier post on LinkedIn: "mathematical fluency is the ease by which we can link mathematical objects" it was quite complimentary! Mind you, I've been saying this for decades. @atmmathematics.bsky.social‬ #mathematics #teaching #mathslearning

Article in today's @theobserveruk.bsky.social called "Tested to destruction" concludes with the quote below. Some of us have been shouting about the imperative of investment in early childhood for many decades. It's just so darned obvious.

Tables: parrot fashion. We've got to two, twos are four. Notice the technique of teacher encouragement.

This news from #BBC reminds me of @atmmathematics.bsky.social Easter conf session. Shld curriculum be expressed as ingredients, ingredients & recipes or ready made meals? The risks of ready made meals missing their essential nutrients & perhaps OK only in exceptional circumstances was discussed!

Is this from Conrad Wolfram being considered within the curriculum review? “In real-world maths, computers do almost all the calculating; by contrast, in educational maths, people do almost all the calculating.” "The fundamental problem at the heart of today’s maths education crisis.”

@atmmathematics.bsky.social On the way home after conference. Thanks to the organisers. You made it happen. Gd to be with maths educators for ever pushing the boundaries of possibility to reveal & sustain the mathematician in all learners. Reflecting on Gattegno's 1st presidential address to ATAM

@helenjwc.bsky.social @atmmathematics.bsky.social #mathsteaching

An early start to futureproofingthecurriculum.org.uk It's always refreshing to spend a few days with colleagues who are independent from govt agencies & commercial enterprises. A chance to refocus on the learning of mathematics & to think hard about what that means for curriculum design & teaching.

Does this BBC News clip suggest that the reporter Jeffrey Goldberg is a Trump supporter as he is said to hate those who are anti-Trump?

Second spoiler alert for my session at the upcoming conference. futureproofingthecurriculum.org.uk A curriculum should hint at direction of travel - progression if you will. But what do we mean by progression?

12 days leave coming to an end. 3 books read. Recommend them all. Spanish vocabulary slightly extended. Sudoku'd out.

You've heard of reservoir dogs. Here's the sequel: parallel dogs.

I have accused @ofstednews.bsky.social of mission creep in the past, but this article in today's Yorkshire Post takes the biscuit! Got me thinking what 'zero standing charges' might be in a school context. Could it be teachers who sit down during a lesson? #bitofagaff

Donald Trump again mimics Putin and calls for an election in Ukraine - falsely claiming Zelensky’s approval rating was “at 4%” Recent polling in fact shows that Zelensky’s approval rating is better than Trumps Lets make sure everyone knows the truth youtu.be/QDagM0WWEP4?...

What a good example! A crtical design characteristic of a curriculum is that it is in sync with the development of the child.

**HERE is our new Early Childhood Maths Home page: we hope things are easier to find & you enjoy furkelling! earlymaths.org

Why games beat tests for primary maths. www.tes.com/magazine/tea...

Heroic.

Hello, Bluesky!

Due to its popularity more tickets have been released for our seminar tomorrow night at the House of Commons on a potential revised curriculum 6.00pm-8.00pm. We have been granted a bigger room. If you were put on a waiting list you will now be able to join.

Please make sure you have your say. It is so important that @beckyfrancis.bsky.social and her team hear from all viewpoints around the curriculum and assessment system www.gov.uk/government/c...

What the Tortoise said to John Sweller: Why knowing is not the same as understanding and learning cannot be explained in terms of 'changes in long term memory'. bernardandrews.wordpress.com/2024/10/29/w...

The Joint Primary Group of the ATM and MA are pleased to launch ‘KS1 Assessment Tasks – Tasks not Tests’. a collaboration between mathematics educators and are freely available by all to access. @Mathematical_A atm.org.uk/News/ks1-tas...

I used this at a presentation over 10 years ago. I still like it!

The ATM (Association of Teachers of Mathematics) has a series of short ‘Maths Snack’ video activities - here is just one of them youtu.be/ovQxzFsztOo?... #EduSky #UKMathsChat

www.theguardian.com/education/ar... "Schools that serve more disadvantaged communities will almost by definition use disciplinary methods more frequently,” Bennett said.

Given the immovability of the decimal point and mindful of place value, am I right in teaching children that: as words get longer they grow rightwards; but as numbers get bigger they grow leftwards?

@atmmathematics.bsky.social Here's a community to be part of. #EduSky #UKMathsChat

I'm thinking about a session with KS2 teachers of maths. The brief is adding & subtracting fractions. I've chosen a discussion starter. What do you think? #UKMathsChat #PrimaryMaths

Just seeing if there are education networks beyond Twitter..