This is such a retrograde step. With all the gaming of the past, and the dearth of arts and languages at GCSE and A Level, why can people not see the net effect will be less maths overall, as fewer students do the double subject. It's not a linked-pair pilot!

Yep. There seems to be a widespread misunderstanding about what Maths actually is.

another thing on this - "the qualification taken by all would cover maths and data skills" fwiw whilst I see the value of dataskills teaching them as an abstract concept in maths doesnt have as much value (in my opinion) as making them an examinable skill in the other subjects in the curriculum

solving a quadratic equation is fun doing algebra in general is fun working with surds and remembering "oh yeahhh, I can treat the number 5 as root5 x root5 and solve this" is fun it is the same fun as logic puzzles and sudoku. if you like that, you would like this.

Mathematician's version of "fake it till you make it", or "be the change you want to see", or "visualise your self[expression] in the role[form] you want"

Well, how about I #TryMathsLive on this problem?

trying to do this question: "Using proof by induction, prove that x^(2n) - y^(2n) is divisible by (x+y)" hitting a bit of a wall #alevelmaths

There was a modest roost of c. 150 Dunlin and 100 ringed plovers at high tide on Gunner Point, Hayling Island. Down from the c. 1000 birds a couple of weeks ago. #ukbirding

went to @jewrywallroman.bsky.social Jewry Wall Museum in Leicester today for the first time since.... I was in primary school(??) It was really good, 7 yr old and 4 yr old had a great time

from my pgce(?) ~2009

heard a story yday where a trainee teacher tried to teach KFC to a class and the class shouted them down saying it wasnt maths and the classes actual teacher said the class was right and the trainee is really grudgeful about the whole thing now.

Thanks Sam. I'd have changed the activity if I'd have known you were going to be there! Happy Birthday too 🎂 enjoy the half term break

felt like I had seen spoilers when I saw @pdlouisep.bsky.social doing trios again today, but honestly, it's brilliant and well worth repeating. getting the numicon out tonight so my kids can have a go at it in the morning ❤️

looking back at the pandemic, we had two pre-school age children at the time, and it was remarkable that within a week of isolation starting their noses didn't permanently run anymore... the snot just disappeared

I see this all the time with maths. People who were naturally good at school maths often fall over completely at university because they don’t know how to make sense of things that are difficult to them.

Hmmmm, the sum of the first n squares being (1/24)(2n)(2n+1)(2n+2) is a lot prettier

a reminder that we are on the hunt for a lead practitioner to join a team that really embraces talking about the best way to teach maths. Can you help lead on that? www.eteach.com/job/lead-pra...

talking to #alevelmaths teaching colleagues across the region we think there has been a drop off in Ss asking for help from teachers, suspect they turn to AI instead

You probably want to work in Ashby. It's lovely out there, and @blatherwicksam.bsky.social is alright too.

We are advertising for a lead practitioner (& we also have a maths teacher post we are advertising for too) If you're interested to come and work in a beautiful part of the country with a team who love to talk about maths teaching then get in touch! www.eteach.com/job/lead-pra...

Pay scale and typos sorted out now 👍 DM if you want a chat about the school. It's an amazing place to work at the minute.

I would highly recommend working with your local maths hub if you haven't done so yet. Great networking opportunities, high quality resources, free to attend (and paid cover!). Great CPD. Also good for personal development if you want to get involved leading

We are advertising for a lead practitioner (& we also have a maths teacher post we are advertising for too) If you're interested to come and work in a beautiful part of the country with a team who love to talk about maths teaching then get in touch! www.eteach.com/job/lead-pra...

We get a big sparx completion rate dip after holidays. Has anyone got any strategies they'd share for attacking this? #mathschat #ukmathschat #ukedchat

Happy to report the 2026 game works. So: place standard mathematical operators (+−×÷√!, that sort of thing) between 2, 0, 2, and 6, keeping the digits in order without concatenation, to make the numbers 0–10. How many can you get? #MathsToday

Trying to work out if there is a mistake in the textbook answers... what's the expression for the determinant of this matrix pls? #maths

picked up an old textbook at school today and the name in the front of it was the dad of one of my year 13s 😂 #mathstoday

different things for different people, but I really struggle to see arguments in favour of FOIL.

I’m trying to teach this topic using the function machine notation that @blatherwicksam.bsky.social talked about at MathsConf last year. I like how this works for multiple transformations so wanted to introduce it now. #ALevelMaths

the rules for ritangle MASSIVELY advantage boarding schools and international schools again 🫠

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! 🥳🫠