Unexpected email from Jonny Griffiths telling me there's a new 2026 update of his RISPS book, that's great investigations for impressionable A Level students. Download it now from www.risps.co.uk with links to Geogebra and Excel files @jonny-griffiths.bsky.social

If you were given a choice of two Further Maths modules (FP1, FP2, FS1, FS2, FM1, FM2, D1, D2), which one would you a) study as a student b) teach as a teacher as your top two? Interested to hear this as a few of my Y12 FM students are asking for option changes! #ALevelMaths #Mathstoday

mrbartonmaths.com?utm_source=s... Makeover for Mr Barton Maths..and look at those Super 8s. #UKMathsChat #iTeachMaths

Our Y8 SOW sensibly includes recapping negative arithmetic before they start expanding brackets. This year I realised I don’t usually get them to practise negatives in the context of algebra, though, so in #MathsToday I gave them these questions to fill that gap.

Last year I created this Desmos activity to help students learn some basics to design their own Christmas pictures. Feel free to use with your classes as term ends. classroom.amplify.com/activity/657...

New resources from recent Year 9 lessons added to the website today: ✨Pythagoras pile up puzzle ✨Multi-step trigonometry practice grid Enjoyed making and working through these! (Hopefully I got the correct answers...) #MathsToday #UKMathsChat

New blog post for maths teachers: "Things I assumed you knew" www.resourceaholic.com/2025/12/thin... Comments welcome! #ukmathschat

Hi everyone! Please share this to any secondary Maths teachers 😊: I have created a Christmas Maths exam paper in the style of Edexcel for my year 11 class for a bit of fun. Please feel free to use it too: www.tes.com/teaching-res...

#mathstoday "Accidentally" let myself be side-tracked into finding the minimum value of the quadratic curve in today's year 10 lesson on sketching the quadratic. Lots of MWB work too. Fun times for me - slightly dazed look for them. 😂

Today’s Y13 starter - I really like how c & d can be solved either by changing the inequality and using the original distribution, or by transforming the distribution and using the original values. #MathsToday #ALevelMaths

It's been a while... Find the exact value of the green area. #MathsToday #ALevelMaths

#mathstoday A very strange lesson with some tired year 10s on quadratics. "It's too hard" followed by "Oh, it really easy." Then repeat. For the whole lesson. Satisfying and insanely frustrating all at the same time.

#mathstoday An oxbridge candidate found a question about the maximum distance down a slope a particle, projected at alpha to horizontal, travels. Loads of fun maths and a useful aside to recap the sinP + sinQ formula. Aim was to find alpha in terms of theta (angle of slope to horizontal).

Sunday night seems the right time to post a gallery of (I hope!) every one of Catriona's geometry puzzles. notes.mathforge.org/notes/publis... Give it a moment to load ... there's a *lot* of them! #GeometryPuzzles #UKMathsChat #mathsky

If you see an interesting & mathsy article (blog, video, podcast ep, whatever) posted in November don't forget to submit it to the Carnival of Maths in time for December's edition! https://aperiodical.com/carnival-of-mathematics/

This will hopefully give students an indication of which universities are more or less flexible on their entry criteria, to help them make their choices. Subjects are in tabs along the bottom (eg Maths, Physics, Comp Sci, etc) The data is for 2026 entry. wykecollege-my.sharepoint.com/:x:/g/person...

#mathstoday #alevelmaths A question on recently taught maths: When discussing lim sin(h)/h (as h-->0) with a class, do you go through a Squeeze Theorem proof? Do you also derive lim (cos(h) - 1)h ? if so, what's your approach? I personally like the derivation as it explains why we work in radians

New! My 193rd gems post. Ideas, resources and updates for maths teachers. 💎 www.resourceaholic.com/2025/10/5-ma... Hat tips to follow. #mathstoday #ukmathschat

The points @msjasminemn.bsky.social makes in the body of the article are important. Rhetoric around immigration has now moved against not only illegal immigration, but legal immigration. schoolsweek.co.uk/ive-given-my...

Y13 did their first set of integration looky-likeys in #MathsToday. Looking forward to lots more of this in the next few weeks! The last one was a bit mean (I put it there to slow down the fast finishers) but they did manage it when I gave them the right substitution. #ALevelMaths

Looks interesting! #MathsToday euromathsoc.org/news/ems-lec...

In #MathsToday I ran a lunchtime session with some year 12 students where we looked at this activity. Trying to get them into the mindset of "just trying things and talking about what you're doing", with the eventual idea of leading to Oxbridge-interview-style questions share.google/RtVNN66Y9bq1...

Today I realised that “integrates like” is the phrase I’ve been missing for talking about spotting the structure of an integral. #ALevelMaths #MathsToday

I saw your labels and thought these represented the actual areas (as in the area of region 1 is 1 unit, of region 2 is 2 units, etc...) which got me thinking that that sort of thing might make a nice problem. Impossible to get regions with those areas using a parabola, but I came up with this:

#mathstoday #alevelmaths Gave a reasonably challenging problem to my A level class today, namely (3^6-1)/(3^5+3^4+...+1) as a "starter", although I'm not so keen on the term. It provoked quite a bit of conversation and, although not my intention, led us down GPs before factorising. Lots of fun.

A little follow-up to my post yesterday about integrating ln(x). loopspace.mathforge.org/CountingOnMy... #UKMathsChat #ALevelMaths #ITeachMaths

#mathstoday I may have derived the Gauss Shoelace Formula with my year 10s. Spot the name of my OneNote page 🫣

#mathstoday Our SoW puts similar triangles after right-angled trig, and volume and SA before both. Being the bloody-minded individual I am, I may have already introduced some trig and, today, had fun finding the volume of a frustum using all of the above. Lots of "Ohhhh" moments.

#mathstoday Absolutely loved working through some Madas discriminant problems with my FM group. So much discussion about problem solving, layout of algebra, graph sketching. And a thunderstorm to distract us in the middle. Being a maths teacher is great!

New academic year, new Step Support Programme website! Over the summer we have updated our website, had a bit of a tidy up, and added some new content. One of the new features is a "Check in test' for students who have completed the foundation modules complete with marksheme. maths.org/step/

#mathstoday A new, lovely, FM group have been tackling some quadratics and were (re)introduced to the discriminant today. Lots of fun and engagement. They all thanked me and went 2 doors down where they all complained, roundly, about the discriminant. My colleague was unbearably happy 🫣🤣

It's that time of year again - your annual reminder that if you're a Maths teacher and looking for suitable resources for your classes across KS3 to KS5 then do check out www.draustinmaths.com. The site is five years old this week 🎉🎉 and in that time it's amassed over 1000 resources! 1/3

Just a reminder that if you are about to start teaching #ALevelMaths, this book is available from the Mathematical Association @mathematicala.bsky.social online shop. In my completely unbiased opinion, it's really quite useful.

From Charlie Stripp's Linkedin: The results are excellent news, with A Level Maths numbers up from 107,427 to 112,138, an increase of 4.4%, A Level Further Maths numbers up from 18,082 to 19,390, an increase of 7.2% and Core Maths numbers up from 12,810 to 15,327, a whopping 19.6% increase.

If the storm - or the cricket - is keeping you indoors and you just feel the need to read something about addition to take your mind off things ... I may have just what you're looking for. loopspace.mathforge.org/CountingOnMy... #mathsky #UKMathsChat #ITeachMaths

#mathstoday My A level group were reluctant to move on as some, who had missed it, were sitting an assessment. Were they keen to revisit material or to plough on to topics new? No. So they got annoyed that they couldn't work out how to make 24 using 3 3 8 and 8 +×÷-() as needed. Evil chuckle from me

#mathstoday Started FM vectors with my L6 today. I really enjoy teaching it, as long as I ignore the textbook. How do you introduce the scalar product? I remember seeing some interesting discussions on this but I can't find them. Perhaps it was in the dark place.

#mathstoday Loci in the complex plane today. Love this stuff - possibly more than my FM group, it seems. Also can't bring myself to end with the small number of offerings in the textbook 🫣

#mathstoday My first foreign holiday in many years and I received a slightly worried plea from a FM pupil, clearly somewhat on edge. I don't normally even read my Teams messages during a break but clicked on the wrong app. Oh well. Fun maths, and Teams is now off.

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#mathstoday Teaching some modulus-argument form today but could use an exams expert. I tend to ask my pupils to give their answer using the principle argument, but the textbook doesn't. How is it treated in the exam - perhaps they specify in the question.

#mathstoday Re-exploring straight line graphs by creating a table of values from x=-3 to x=3 and using y=mx+c (literally that) to see if I can, once again, entice some thought about how to plot quickly, but without a table of values. I'm quite contrary that way 😁

#mathstoday I snuck a binomial expansion into an integration question today and was a little delighted to see (3+x)^-2 = (3(1+x/3))^-2 before the customary 3^-2 (3+1/x)^-2 It seems my "hard work ain't been in vain for nothin'." (bonus marks if you know the quote).

#mathstoday Whilst discussing the Trapezium Rule today, one of my FM pupils told me that "You can walk into a cave but you can't walk into a vex". Any guesses as to context 🤣

New from @alexjw.bsky.social: A spreadsheet showing entry requirements for 2025-26 Maths degrees in England and Wales. This includes the reported actual grades of undergraduates (most common and lowest). public.3.basecamp.com/p/AXFLJMvqQV...

#mathstoday A lovely bit of L6 trig work combining graph transformations with solving equations. I may have used the verb, to concertina, which is definitely one of the transformations, right?

#mathstoday Such a gentle approach needed for my middle set year 10s for circle theorems. Small successes and constantly asking, "What can you find out that you \bf{know} is true? That you're not saying just because it looks like it should be true?" We're getting there.

#mathstoday I discovered that a pupil who'd joined my class in year 11 had no idea how to find the LCM of 3 numbers. "I know it's to do with Venn Diagrams". Reader, there was nary a circle in sight during our extended venture into prime factors and multiples thereof. Love these interactions.

New blog post: Exciting maths news of 2024, a round up by the Finite Group community. aperiodical.com/2024/12/exci... #MathsSky #mathchat #MathsToday #ConfusedByMathsHashtags