Really like this project by Ari Versluis and Ellie Uyttenbroek. Titled Exactitudes, it's a series of portraits stretching back 20 years that shows how people style themselves to signal they're part of a group and unique individuals within that group. exactitudes.com

First day of the holidays and of course I am up at 0520.

I think we can all agree that was the worst penalty shoot out ever. Still, an ugly win is still a win. #lionesses

Yr 12 induction day. Last year about 40% of students on Further Maths were female. This year: 0%. #Alevelmaths

Hungary banned anything that “promotes homosexuality,” which means Pride. However, today over 500,000 people in Budapest told the government to fuck off. 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

This is one of the best questions on error intervals. Really separates out students who answer procedurally and those who understand. It's a great question.

#Alevelmaths some very kind soul put up a link to the PDFs of the Pearson a level books. I don't suppose anyone still has it? We are subscribers so this isn't sketchy.

This long thread is packed with insights, particularly on the intersection of fashion and power. The transformation in men's fashion from the richness of the 18th century to the drab of the 20th is, I think, regretable.

Question for #ALevelMaths - doing Mod-arg with Furthers. It's the first time I taught it. Is cisθ still an acceptable abbreviation for cosθ + isinθ. It was a thousand years ago when I did FM A level, but is it accepted by Edexcel? Thanks.

I did this last year. Absolutely loved it. Thoroughly recommend it.

I realise this is not really rthe point, but my goodness the Americans cannot march. That wasn't a parade, it was a shamble. The contrast with #troopingthecolour could not be more stark. #nokings #actualking

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Love watching #troopingthecolour but never sure of the point of having serving officers as commentators. Every other person they talk about on the parade is a "sterling chap, excellent soldier and a great mate". They can't all be. Some of them must be utter tossers.

My adorable Year 10s finished their #GCSEstatistics today. They seemed very happy. They made me this fabulous card. I will miss teaching them.

And they say irony is dead.

Dream job

Big debate on the future of homework in the department. We use Sparx but so many students are using AI to do the work, what's the point? Various options from dropping H/w altogether to forcing students to show full workings. Interested to know what others are doing?

I wrote this guide to being a better reader: how to read, what to read and why jmarriott.substack.com/p/how-i-read

Have made some potential Paper 2 revision papers for #GCSEstatistics for Friday. Please feel free to use them. @mathsjem.bsky.social drive.google.com/drive/folder...

Twitter: this is how men with huge balls fight. This is what masculinity looks like Bluesky: this is the first messy breakup of pride month

Really angry about Q7 on the edexcel #gcsestatistics paper. It was Capture-recapture. "During the year 2018, the number of black bears captured was 2017." WTF? Why use a number so close to the date? Why cause ambiguity? Students v confused by it. We have made a formal complaint.

Good luck to everyone taking #gcsestatistics today. Smash it.

Gutted that Ncuti Gatwa left #DoctorWho. He brought such energy and love to the show.

Ingenious 😂 FFS

Proud of my #gcsestatistics class. 28 out of 40 of them turned up to our revision sessions yesterday and today. (yes, it's that big a class). P1 is on the day we get back. #mathstoday

and the reason we’re sadly not going back to America anytime soon.

It's Friday... And on Fridays we dance 💃🕺 📽️The Nicholas Brothers in "Stormy Weather" (1943)

These look like a great resource for A level maths: www.alphaworkbooks.co.uk They are closing down, so his books are currently free to download from his website until the website closes. #Alevelmaths

Did this course and it was excellent. Also York is a really nice city.

Mostly, we have been learning eleventy gagillion terms in Decision Maths. There are cycles and there are paths, but why no cycle paths? #mathstoday #Alevelmaths

I #mathstoday it is GCSE paper 1. Good luck everyone. We can only sit back and watch now.

Started Decision Maths in #mathstoday #Alevelmaths. I am not convinced that this is actually maths at all. I am so old this wasn't a thing when I was at school.

TIL that centipedes are some of the best mothers amongst invertebrates. Females of Scolopendra gigantea (the largest species, capable of reaching 12”+) reproduce only once in their lifespan, sacrificing themselves while still alive as their offspring’s first meal.

this internet was a mistake, but sometimes it’s the best thing ever created

Anyone any experience of using MS Class Notebook for A Level. We set quite a lot of homework, but it is difficult to get accountability without checking each book. Thinking of pushing a blank page to student workbooks and using the review tools to check it. #Alevelmaths

Just incredible

New CG100 arrived today. The best I can say about it is the redesign from CG50 to 100 is not as bad as the 991EX to 991CW. Some aspects of the CG100 are actually better than the CG50.

A brief foray back into this place to offer a few GCSE Statistics resources. There'll be another revision paper before the end of the week, and a between papers paper for this year in early June. kshancock.co.uk/gcsestats/st... @mathsjem.bsky.social (In case it's useful for you)

I did this last year and it was fantastic. Thoroughly enjoyed it.

Every teacher about now... "where's my bloody lanyard?"

Now we know who the inspiration for Voldemort was.

New GCSE Statistics resources! I've made some practice grids aimed at the higher tier content to support colleagues in my department whose classes are sitting the higher paper. - Summarising data - Index numbers Feel free to use and adapt #GCSEStatistics #ukmathschat #mathstoday

Here's a zero-gravity parody song about this week's coverage of #BlueOrigin's rocket launch. Sorry we forgot to turn the clicker off but we were more worried about getting the pitch (nearly) right. It's called "Flight from Earth" based on the anthemic #Firework by #KatyPerry 🎇🎶 youtu.be/YJF6NcwkZbc

Just found this outstandingly good newsletter on the chaos coming out of America from a former colleague at WSJ. It really is first class and very much worth reading.

Sometimes the Telegraph is just a pastiche of itself. Help the second homeless. You could put money on the fact that Barry - pictured - who claims, somehow, that his human rights are being infringed is all in favour of the UK leaving the ECHR. www.telegraph.co.uk/money/tax/re...

Unpopular opinion: we spend too much time at GCSE teaching algebra and not enough time teaching stats. Also the stats component of the A level is a mess.

Not sure that a parent who has bought devices for her 7yo and 9yo, and then bemoans about them using them (while using her own), is really the voice we need to hear. metro.co.uk/2025/04/11/i...

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