Just want to put this out there to see The more revision sessions a school puts on the less students revise. Feel like students need the responsibility of doing it for themselves

Played Heardle with my tutor group today and one of them asked "what's a Madonna?"

I'm sad because my book about the history of Doc Martins got the boot

Anybody else being offered about 5 jobs a day teaching in the middle East or is it just me? Sadly none have included a Kevlar Vest and Helmet in their employee benefits

I see Walkthrus is getting a bit of stick over on that other place

#mathstoday thought I'd get away from this in 2 weeks but I'm maths today I taught my wife about metric weight conversion after I moved 3 tonnes of stone in 2 days by myself (50 bags per tonne) at one point she said "at least the stuff going on top will be lighter because the stones are smaller" 😂

Refused to watch Project Hail Mary until I read the book but now that I have I feel like the ending really spoils it and am now to scared to see the film

Now got to do a briefing in front of the whole staff after Easter on what ive learnt from this. Note to self: next time you seek out your own CPD keep it to yourself 😂

#mathstoday any members of the 21000 or bust crew on here? This was heartbreaking stuff

Catching up with @adamboxereducation.bsky.social webinar last night (poor old Nigel), it's fantastic 100% preaching to the choir but that encourages me to think that the way im supporting my year 11s is right for them

When you think you've finally found the perfect diagnostic question but it turns out to be in Welsh #mathstoday

My pet peeve in lessons I've observed recently is 100% printing a worksheet that a student isnt allowed to write on. Like if it is that vital your worksheet is printed then let them write on it

Can't help but feel that Netflix releasing The Peaky Blinders film the week after the Manosphere documentary is somewhat hypocritical

#mathstoday booked a computer room with year 8 today without clocking its a non-school uniform day. Come back later to see if i survive

Also just really curious as to what people believe makes a difference? There are so many strategies around revision and intervention that have been shown not to work but we fall back on them in a last ditch attempt out of desperation

##edusky the mocks have been marked. The progress has been noted. Help me out please fellow teachers, how do you get those marginal gains to get those last few year 11 students over the line

#mathstoday we had our pi day bake off! Whilst it didn't win, one of my year 10s drew a portrait of me teaching pi using icing

@adamboxereducation.bsky.social on Chalk Dust this week

Had year 11 for a token 20 minutes between mocks and they were having an interesting debate about what's harder being a primary teacher or secondary, unanimously primary (including me). Not one student thought it was an easy job either 🤔

##mathstoday after 2 lessons away on a course I think my year 11s have realised the best thing for them to do in their maths lessons is to sit listen and do the work. Was a pleasant surprise!

Have some schools gone too 100 minute lessons purely for crowd control or is there a pedagogical reason behind it too?

Why did they update mathsbox?? #changeisnotgood

#MathsToday I used algebra tiles for the first time today, my department love them and i decided to embrace it being new this year. It was a great success (with bottom set year 8 last lesson too!)

Lads and dads (or should be lad and dad) day out to the farm today. Think I need to attach a flag to the buddy that says "I am not divorced" for when I take him out solo

Was listening to a thing by Ochre about curriculum and equity on my way home and apparently schools pay Twinkl £42MILLION a year.

Listening to an American commentate on cricket is like seeing a PE teacher in a suit on parentes evening. Like I known it's your job and you're more than qualified to do this but something still isn't quite right

The football is so turgid that im sat here laughing at @joel120193.bsky.social blog in what feels like a masochistic manner. Like sorry what is this and why have we all had to do it?

#mathstoday love teaching compound/simple interest as it's the only time I can put my undergraduate degree to good use and explain how the Mona Lisa wouldn't exist without the introduction of charging interest in banking

Is Australia this utopia of educational research that I envisage it to be or did a lot of teachers just spend their summers on Substack?

Anybody know where i can get a decent Department Development Plan template? We don't use them at my school but feel like a need one as first time Head of Maths #edusky

Just found this box in the Maths store cupboard. Is this what winning the lottery feels like?

Whenever i see a tiktok teacher announce they do their printing the morning of

Value for money Maths IT subscriptions, help please! Mathswatch, Dr. Frost, Mangahigh, Mymaths, which one's do people recommend for student practice?

Can I add a justification 5? It's not why we get into the profession. No teacher signs up for this because they want to hand out detentions. It takes years to fully understand the necessity of it(?)

With the amount of medical professionals I've taken my son to see in his short life so far and the amount of schools I've worked at/ visited in my decade+ in education I've made plenty of comparisons between the NHS and the education sector and there's one standout comparison

The road rage/social media comparison at the end of this podcast has, for some reason, felt mind blowing. Such a strong yet obvious similarity

@teachertapp.bsky.social looking forward to the "how many pairs of socks did teachers get for Christmas?" research, think im at a solid 20 pairs

Anyone solved how to not get year 11s to look at papers beforehand when sitting mocks? Even the 🔒 papers are on tiktok. Are there any papers available online which kids cant access? #mathstoday ##EduSky

#UKEd #EduSky how do you show students the benefits of attendance? I'm talking about how the students who can't get out of bed for period 1 or dont come in because they've got PE? How do you show these students it'll improve their future selfs if they make the right choices now?

My tutor group mentioned the dreaded SS today..... Secret Santa

Has anyone used logs to do reverse compound interest with a GCSE class? Wondering whether to do it with my top set year 10 or will that not work as it's technically not on the spec? #edusky #uked ##iteachmath

Is anyone having thoughts that maybe homework isn't worth the hassle anymore given how many students put it into AI? #iteachmath #ukmathschat

Any other maths teachers going through their lessons making sure none of their answers are 67, 6.7 0.67 670 etc etc or is it just me?

Find it mad to comprehend that im not a head of maths. First inset tomorrow, any advice on how to approach department time in the afternoon?