Been to the doctors and he had to look in the back of my throat. I TOOK MY GLASSES OFF. So embarrassing.

That Guardian 100 best books doesn't even have the best Hilary Mantel on it. Ridiculous.

Closes Tuesday! 🙌 It’s dead good here.

Finishing up with Year 13 in #Mathstoday, looking at some slightly lesser spotted questions to do with integration and logarithms #Alevelmaths

We’ve got a vacancy due to relocation. Years 9-13, great colleagues, approachable and sensible leadership, great location for Derby/Notts. We’re small and close-knit, but not in a cloying way! (It’s great.) 1/2 www.tes.com/jobs/vacancy...

Some "Power Equations" , equations with indices, or whatever you like to call them. (And so detached from posting here I realise I don't have a clue what hashtag to use... 😐) Downloadable version with worked solutions here: kshancock.co.uk/lessonresour...

Ormiston River Academy are looking for a Director of Mathematics. Could it be you? The school is in Burnham-on-Crouch in Essex. Take a look at the advert and apply by Monday 27th April. mynewterm.com/jobs/137152/... Reposts welcome!

You have until Wednesday to apply for one of my 2 vacancies. We are DELIGHTFUL.

Short stories are great. You can read one before breakfast.

Oh yeah definitely the one thing sci fi and fantasy has been missing is the male gaze

New! My 197th gems post. Ideas, updates and resources for maths teachers. 💎 www.resourceaholic.com/2026/04/5-ma... #ukmathschat #mathstoday #alevelmaths

Had to write about an imaginary culture where the social norms are different so I spaffed on about a society who communicate through dance because it’s about the only verb I could bloody conjugate. 🤡

Used this lovely task from Underground Maths with year 12 today. I love that it has no calculating, it’s all reasoning. 🥰🙌 undergroundmathematics.org/calculus-mee... #MathsToday #ALevelMaths

📊 New KS4 PD materials! Statistics and probability materials now available to support subject knowledge, planning and classroom practice. Explore core concepts including representations, analysis and probability. www.ncetm.org.uk/news/new-ks4... #Maths #EduSky #UKMathsChat

Made this for year 12 to practice discernment with differentiation. Took far longer to plan and write than it did for them to do it, but hopefully it helps consolidate and make meaning between sentences and expressions/equations! #MathsToday #ALevelMaths

Wherever possible, I like to check for prerequisite knowledge in a meaningful way. Here's a simple one for completing the square.

Revising for a French written test I’ve got next week and I’m in that bargaining stage. ‘How badly can I do and still pass if I nail my speaking test?’

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My year 13s are struggling with reverse chain rule, so wrote these as a bridging task before we look at adjusting to get a reverse chain rule result. #MathsToday #ALevelMaths

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The House of Lords Digital & Communications Committee just published their report on AI, copyright & the creative industries, and their conclusions could not be clearer. 🧵 1/5

If Reform had won, Labour's statement would be that this result is a stark reminder we need to listen and learn from voters who rightly feel betrayed by modern politics. But the Greens won by a comfortable margin, so it's: these voters are stupid and also sinister and, ugh, Muslims

Picked up Bog People from my local library on Friday and powered through it over the weekend. Superb anthology of #folkhorror - no filler, all great tales. Highly recommended. www.awesomebooks.com/book/9781784...

Used this from Underground Maths today. (undergroundmathematics.org/introducing-...) Prompted great conceptual discussion around zooming in and looking at local properties on curves. It made differentiation from first principles so much easier to grasp afterwards too. Love UM! #MathsToday

Making use of the split tile buttons to complete the square even if the coefficient of x is odd. youtu.be/eFLhyWYLyZ8 #MiniMathsBots

all talent really is? It's one thing that you have a knack for right away. That's all it is. it is a single pea buried in the mattresses of practice. You don't even have to have that one thing. Harping on talent is how they keep you from trusting you can do it. it's a grift.

I give my yr12 pure lot paper homework every lesson and one of them’s just pulled an uno reverse card out of their pocket and placed it on their desk. The gall! 😅

The narrative that teens are all phone-obsessed hermits is so damaging and over simplified - we need to celebrate the other narratives like this one: amazing work from the young lads cumbriacrack.com/2026/01/26/t...

There is money for "education" if and only if that money is being directly funneled to corporations. Anything involving actual learning, however, well there's no magic money tree

Used a double number line in #MathsToday to help pupils get to grips with going from one number to another using multiplication.

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A friend of mine has just launched this website that I think is pretty great for generating quick starters for A-Level maths and he has started adding some questions for Further Maths too. mrhardymaths.co.uk #MathsToday #ALevelMaths

Why don't they keep AI focused on scientific & medical uses, to enhance human intelligence instead of trying to replace it and turning us into stupid lumps devoid of imagination, wondering & problem solving abilities?

Probability with Y12. I really like this RiSP about independent events, and this great MathsPad activity to practise the different definitions. It felt like we covered a lot in today’s lesson! #ALevelMaths #MathsToday

Used this in #MathsToday in an attempt to get all of my Y10 understanding composite functions (a few were struggling after I introduced it yesterday). One pupil joked "they liked maths again" at the end of the lesson so I'll take that as a win!

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do you guys hear that bell tolling? wonder who it’s for. it’s so loud lmao

When introducing the idea of Completing the Square, I find numerical examples in base ten can be a helpful stepping stone for pupils. Bridging the gap between numbers and algebra.

Spooky clockwork Hey Mickey is worth the license fee alone. #TheTraitors

By the way, why not make your New Year’s resolution be to start sharing little things that went well in your maths lessons using #MathsToday? Whenever I make a habit of this, it always makes me feel more positive about my job. It’s lovely to scroll through and see what everyone else is doing too.

Having some fun with area models with Y8. I love the bit where you go into negatives and it all still works! I often skip this step, but (as well as being a nice demo for negxneg=pos) it helps overcome their distrust at negative terms appearing as lengths/areas in algebraic models. #MathsToday

Marbleslides will never not be fun. #MathsToday Activity here: classroom.amplify.com/activity/589...

My friend’s youngest did Old MacDonald where on this farm he had a ‘Draper’ and the noise was the biggest wettest raspberry you’ve ever heard. Never in my life I have been so roasted. And by a 2 year old.

I like some Cormac books just fine— and lots of people I love, LOVE him — but I’m so bored by the “your art should drive you to suicide” romanticization. I want short stories, and novels, and art, that drove the artist to joyful exaltation.

Rewatching Hacks and got to the end of series 1 again where Deborah does impromptu crowd work at [redacted for spoilers]. It’s such an act of love, it makes me bawl my eyes out every time.

Merry Christmas everyone. Found this on FaceAche:

The older I get, the more I think fiction (which I love) has damaged our ability to judge people. We assume intricate interiority, wheels within wheels, because that’s what drives good plots. The truth is that what someone says and does on the surface is usually exactly who they are.