seems like no matter how i teach trigonometry a handful of kids will say "when are you going to teach us about sohcahtoa?" 🫩

how fluent do students really need to be with times tables?

This year I’ve ended up with the most silent Y12 class I’ve ever taught. Today I changed the seating plan and put this instruction at the top of the starter, and they actually talked to each other! #WeeklyWins #MathsToday #ALevelMaths

Does anyone have a nice activity that is related to rotational and line symmetry but also is basically Christmassy and snowflakey that I can point my yr 7 teachers in the direction of? #maths

Does anyone have a nice activity that is related to rotational and line symmetry but also is basically Christmassy and snowflakey that I can point my yr 7 teachers in the direction of? #maths

covered yr 7 in #mathstoday and got the pyramids out again, this time to teach simplifying expressions, was great fun

spent last week thrashing out expanding brackets with a grid/area model last week with grade 1-3 yr 10s, felt like I was going nowhere fast and encountering lots of difficulties. This morning did reverse process to factorise with same model. Insane success rate. #mathstoday

"We may not all be teachers of mathematics, but we are ALL teachers of math attitudes." @themathguru.bsky.social is delivering our closing keynote for today. 😍 #ATMNE25

Met with Further Education Mastery Specialists across our region today to think about how we can bridge the gaps for students between secondary and FE, and for teachers in our shared understanding of each others' sectors #mathstoday

Nice little activity with further today, give them a function, eg f(x)=x²+1, {x:x<3}, and they have to say whether it is many to one or one to one, and if it is many to one a reason why (eg in this case f(-2)=f(2)), & if it is one to one to give the inverse function #alevelmaths #mathstoday

When i was a student teacher (08/09) my placement school had such big portions for lunch it would be my main meal of the day during the week.

Circle(s) is the key, I think! It seems like we don't even need those two angles (a, b) to be equal. In this diagram, the shaded triangles are congruent (SAS) and so both bases are 5root2. [Seems too simple - am I missing something??]

Learning how to research is important So much of life depends on what questions you ask and how you frame them. As HoD, I've been asking "how do I get more 4+ in yr 11?" But now I'm asking "How do I use yr 9 to get all students 4+ ready?" Changes perspective and data and actions.

Enjoyed Q25 from the SMC and in particular liked that my own solution isnt one that is demonstrated in their videos #mathschat #maths #alevelmaths

Cat is home 🏡 thanks for the positive messages! ❤️

anyone got any positive missing cat stories? 😒 what's the longest yours has gone missing for? We are just over 48 hours 😪

“What is three-quarters, one-quarter of?” My thinking to get to an answer was way more convoluted than it needed to be!

Can't say I'd thought to do this before. #mathstoday

Does anyone teach #coremaths OCR B? First year teaching this and finding it challenging, could really use some advice from someone who has taught it before.

half term! 🥳🫠

New blog post: 'Thinking About Perpendicular Bisectors' Looks at an approach for teaching compass and ruler constructions by using GeoGebra to support understanding. wp.me/p9t8DE-r0 #UKMathsChat #Mathsky

at the maths challenge club i run we have just finished senior maths challenge prep. Next stop is ritangle, but is there anything right now that year 7s or 8s or 9s could be getting on with? #mathschat #maths #mathstoday #mathsteaching #mtbos

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

74.6% this week 💪

#Mathstoday Year 11 looked at Magic squares today. Which leads onto factorising quadratics. Next lesson will be just factorising quadratics. (For some reason rotating won't work)

we broke 70% of all our students getting 100% on Sparx this week for the first time ❤️ ❤️ ❤️ All homework, no in school completion shenanigans

anyone found ways (as a teacher or head of maths) to come out of a week feeling positive about the difference they've made rather than exhausted by the endless unfinished jobs? #maths

A vital maxim in education is richer kids will generally be fine, but if you screw up it's disadvantaged kids that suffer.

@adamboxereducation.bsky.social whilst I agree with a lot of the changes in the 2010s it’s a shame to hear NG describe grid method multiplication as a nonsense method. It’s grounded in understanding the structure of the maths and is based on an area model - the most concrete example we have.

Join Prof Dr Stuart Kime as he dives deep into the research on motivation and belonging, exploring how this fundamental human need directly impacts learning outcomes. Sign up for this webinar: https://chartered.pulse.ly/cdk6mi1bvq #Belonging

reviewed a gcse paper. my view was harsh marking but that i could see why dropped marks. one paper had 4 marks dropped for what I viewed as stringent reasons, such as fraction lines not going all the way across and 2hrs 45 mins being written as 2.45hrs.

Launch day 🚀 We’ve just released @chartlecc.bsky.social - a daily chart game! Your job is to guess which country is represented by the red line in today's chart. You get 5 tries, no other clues! Play today, come back tomorrow for a different chart with new data and share with your chart friends 📈

#MathsToday Year 8 looked at Square numbers and used them to problem solve sums.

Calling all #CoreMaths teachers 📣 If you're in your second year or beyond, we’d love to welcome you to our Work Group focused on developing innovative teaching approaches! 👉 Sign up here: forms.office.com/e/mACpUvCX41 #Maths #Mathematics #Teachers #Teaching #TeacherCPD

In #MathsToday, Year 12 and I enjoyed doing some Susan Wall tasks. I particularly enjoyed this one. We matched the graphs up, and then found the coordinates of all the interesting points.

#mathstoday #alevelmaths I explored classifying stationary pts with yr 12 today I asked them to do a 1st derivative test and a 2nd derivative test for the following sequence of functions: y = x³ - 3x (❤️❤️❤️) y = x³ + 3x² + 3x + 1 y = x⁴ - 2x² + 1 y = x⁴ y = x²/4 + 4/x²

Surds today: using an area model to see what happens when we simplify a used! #alevelmaths

Right. Term's started, so no daily area problem, but I'll try to post one every Monday... #MathsToday #ALevelMaths Find the exact value of the green area.

Hi maths teachers. I don't suppose anybody would ever willing to share a lesson on telling the time on an analogue clock for year 7 (set 9 of 9), please. My laptop has broken, yesterday of all days, so I am in a bit of a pickle this week. Thank you in advance

So it took a while, but here is the write up of my MathsConf38 session - Breaking Up with Formulae: Ratio Tables are “The One”! Turns out starting a new job the same week as presenting, then a busy summer weren't ideal for getting this done before now! 😬🫣

found my school reports this weekend (yr 10 '01 and yr 11 '02) and quite frankly, coursework is an absolute joke. every report "improve your coursework" 🙃

loved being back at school this week. am planning to #mathstoday soon as I have stuff to share, but basking in it right now

went to a @uni-of-warwick.bsky.social community engagement event in Nuneaton yesterday and there was this nice maths of Dobble activity. My kids made their own mini set (with 3 symbols on each card) from this diagram.

Disappointing that we see evidence of overly pedantic marking in AQA A-level again. Remember that these are kids' futures and if they miss out on a university place for writing "translation of +4 units in the x direction" instead of as a vector they still know what they are doing 👎 #alevelmaths

Inspired by the great previous work of @kerrydunton.bsky.social and because @themathsbazaar.bsky.social is only looking at progression to Edexcel A-Level maths I’d like to produce some transition matrices from GCSE to @aqaeducation.bsky.social Maths. I’m hoping to collect enough data to be useful

those who write "*star player* says farewell as departure confirmed" headlines are earning a special place in the afterlife

#mathsonholiday a roman dodecahedron at Corbridge

is there any reason why TLR2 payments have gone up by 5.5% whereas every other pay scales has gone up by 4%? I can't find any media about it #ukedchat @missmc.bsky.social @heymrshallahan.bsky.social

you won't regret reading this for the black socks tip