Number 3 makes even the best stop and think!

Is your school ready to become champions? Ritangle 2025/6 is coming and will be open for registrations from 8 October! Keep your eye on our website, BlueSky and X for more information. #Ritangle #MathsChallenge

Lovely task for #ALevelMaths 😍

Spent a slightly painful 15 minutes discussing Q2 with Y12 today. The problem wasn’t with spotting the patterns, but trying to formulate that into full sentences. If you teach #ALevelMaths, I’d be interested to know how your students get on with similar “describe and explain” tasks. #MathsToday

Good morning! Does anyone have a nice graphic of the set notation symbols, including the R, N for real numbers, natural numbers, etc - I’m sure i had something, but can’t find it! #ALevelMaths

In #mathstoday #alevelmaths I did the simultaneous equations activity from the Mathematical Association Pure Mathematics Book (the one with the green cover)- it was a great first task to enable me to get to know my year 12 FM classes and get them talking and working together.

Back to school thinking of a fun little starter for Year 13s after a summer off... #ALevelMaths #MathsToday

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.

Boost your A-Level teaching! 🧠 New PD resource: Proof by Contradiction for Year 13. Includes lesson plan, video tutorial, and handout. Strengthen your subject knowledge and classroom delivery. Perfect for departmental CPD. 🔗: mr-mathematics.com/product/year... #MathsCPD #AlevelMaths

An xkcd cartoon especially for you @ecrmaths.bsky.social #ALevelMaths

This year for #ALevelMaths I have a weekly 30 min workshop to help students prep for entrance exams (year 13 this term, then year 12 from Jan). I’m working through the integral ODPD to prepare before term starts. Any other tips?

We’ve got a 10% discount on the A-Level Maths textbook until 31st August - feel free to share! @danihosford.bsky.social #ALevelMaths

The striking anomaly of repeating 3 questions in Papers 1 and 2 and the consequent omission of multiple core topics that were tested in all previous years makes the Pearson Maths A Level distinctly different and therefore "not comparable" to previous years. #MathsToday #AlevelMaths #UKMathsChat

Below is an excellent outline of why Pearson shouldn't be allowed to get themselves out the A-Level mess they've created. Ofqual must intervene. #MathsToday #AlevelMaths #UKMathsChat x.com/ALevelScanda...

#MathsToday #ALevelMaths find the area of the green circle. No calculus today, just some nice coordinate geometry. I fed this to chatGPT, which blagged its way to an answer of π. Spoiler - the answer is not π...

Another #ALevelMaths one I adore is Chris McGrane's Isolating Integrals task: startingpointsmaths.com/2023/01/14/i...

Ooh yes. I love this one! mei.org.uk/app/uploads/...

For #ALevelMaths the proof task on Integral with the tables and coloured numbers in and the Integral task that introduces Transformations of Graphs by filling in a table of values and matching to graphs

#MathsToday Our final topic of the year in Y12 Further Maths is roots of polynomials. I've made a few new resources for teaching this topic - some fill in the blanks and a crack the code which you can find on my website www.draustinmaths.com/a-level #UKMathsChat #ALevelMaths

@tomrocksmaths.bsky.social Please take a look at this. We're not dealing with the usual yearly comaint that "these papers were the hardest ever and I've been treated so unfairly...". There is genuinely a problem here that the exam board are yet to fully address.

There is also the #ALevelMaths version House of Games quiz that someone devised. #EndofY12 docs.google.com/presentation...

My end of year "fun" activities (ie disguising #ALevelMaths as a competition) for year 12 students. #MathsToday

More A-level Further Maths resources added today: ✨Sums of squares and cubes fill in the blanks ✨Sum of series crack the code Enjoy! www.draustinmaths.com/a-level #ALevelMaths #MathsToday #UKMathsChat

Doing some TMUA prep in #Mathstoday and came up with this question to get my #AlevelMaths students thinking about sketching graphs/integration questions

Working with Double Angle formulae with Y12 in #AlevelMaths #MathsToday Can you guess which one they found the hardest?

With my Year 12 Further Maths class we've moved on to the Core Pure content, starting with sums of series. I've made a few new resources on the topic so far: ✨Evaluating sums of natural numbers match-up ✨Sum of natural numbers fill in the blanks #MathsToday #UKMathsChat #ALevelMaths

This thread is very detailed and worth your time if you had students sit @PearsonEdexcel A-Level Maths papers this series. #MathsToday #AlevelMaths #UKMathsChat

@blatherwicksam.bsky.social I used your ‘put these graphs in groups’ starter with my A Level Padagogy work group yesterday. It was great! They were reasonably inventive with their groups to start with, but what they really liked was trying to guess what rule I’d used for my groups. #ALevelMaths

Strong recommend. Lots of food for thought in this talk. Very relevant both to A level maths, but also to how we use data in schools. #mathsky #UKMathsChat #ALevelMaths

Doing some thinking about Integration in gain time for #Alevelmaths. Having fun with reciprocals! #Mathstoday

For any #Alevelmaths and FM teachers out there, I strongly recommend trying to get yourself into one of the AMSP courses next year amsp.org.uk/events/ I’m just finishing off FS2 (for the further stats modules) and did FM2 last year. Both brilliant and have reenergised my teaching.

In #MathsToday I met with my group of #ALevelMaths students who are planning on taking an admissions test in the autumn term. We discussed this question from MAT 2020, which led to some nice sketching 😊

This is my email to Ofqual about the recent #ALevelMaths Edexcel Paper 2, with their response. Please could as many of you as possible contact Ofqual, in the hope that they will be persuaded to act? Email addresses are: [email protected], [email protected] #MathsToday

A set of questions for Edexcel #ALevelMaths Paper 2 based on topics likely to come up. drive.google.com/file/d/1I4sM...

Small Angle Approximation with #Alevelmaths in #MathsToday - always like using Variation Theory to zoom in on possible misconceptions!

This is always one of my favourite #ALevelMaths lessons - introducing infinite geometric series. Y12 surprised me this year by generally preferring a geometric approach over algebraic tricks - usually it’s the other way round! #MathsToday

Btw, @danihosford.bsky.social and I finished this today #ALevelMaths

Thank you 😊 Ours tend to come up as coupled differential equations (2 tanks) - are the ones on your spec all single variable?

This is from this year's AP Calculus BC exam. I wonder if A Level students would be able to tackle it.

Some other proof things I’ve been trying with them - fill the blanks and correcting my bad answers. #MathsToday #ALevelMaths

Warm up grid for AQA #ALevelMaths Paper 1. I will add one for paper 2 and paper 3 after papers 1 and 2 have been sat, with a mixture of mechanics/statistics and pure topics that haven't yet come up. Feel free to share/use with your students! #MathsToday wykecollege-my.sharepoint.com/:f:/g/person...

My 2025 KS5 Maths Exam preparation resources page will launch on Tuesday alongside a schedule of when certain papers will release by… will post on here when the page goes live. There will be a few things already available at launch.

In #ALevelMaths - FM Core Pure Vectors - Does anyone have any ideas how to do the final part of this question. We’ve hit a block and feel there’s too many variables (although I have a sneaking suspicion there is an obvious solution as the numbers are too nice!)?

In #ALevelMaths #MathsToday (yesterday actually) we started with this lovely activity that someone shared at the maths conference last year. We went on to look at geometric and matrix proofs of the addition formulae.

A revision activity for Core Pure Further #ALevelMaths. Any suggestions for any more?

In FM #ALevelMaths #mathstoday one of my students was trying to prove that Var(X+Y) = Var(X) + Var (Y). They got this far, but couldn’t prove the last bit (attempts moved to the big rolling board from here!). Can anyone help prove the product law of expectation bit? …we know this is way off spec!