GENUINE fact (not a "bit"): The date is 5^2 / 3^2 / 45^2 It is probably the last time in your lifetime where all three numbers are square (the next one being 1/1/2116)

A simple, brilliant truth as always from Mark. "Part of growing up is learning to name emotions accurately. Not every flutter of the heart is anxiety. Sometimes it is simply anticipation, care, or the ordinary discomfort of stepping into something new."

So here's a question that's probably mostly for primary colleagues. How do you help children to get to grips with one to one correspondence? Is this something that's actively taught, or is it more about setting up activities where it's involved and allowing it to develop naturally?

Hey folks. This week's language post is on Place Value. Please check it out, and share it if you like it! #MathsToday #UKMathsChat open.substack.com/pub/jwrightm...

NEW BLOG: Belonging and Becoming www.emaths.co.uk/blog/general...

Hiking in the Yorkshire dales with my bandmates.

Good morning this back-to-school season! ☀️🚌🍎 Here's some good advice for new & not-so-new teachers. #MTBoS #iTeachMath #T3Learns #MathsToday karendcampe.wordpress.com/2024/09/18/p...

Just a reminder to all maths teachers and people who do maths related things that the #MathsToday hashtag is great for sharing what you've been up to 😊 If you pin the feed to your homepage you can also follow what other people are doing in their classrooms. All welcome! bsky.app/profile/did:...

My favourite thing about the maths teacher community on Bluesky is #MathsToday. If you’ve not joined in before, I can really recommend it. Posting a highlight of your day is very uplifting! I’ve kept forgetting this term, though, so going to attempt a week’s worth in one go…

In #MathsToday my tutee explored Roman numeral fractions. S is for semis (half) and the dot is 'uncia' (one-twelfth).

Highly Recommend ⬇️ 1pm GMT

In #MathsToday I showed my tutee that angles measure amount of turn. And that turns can be equally split up into fractions of a full turn. Exploring both fractions and angles at the same time.

An Immersive New Museum Dedicated to Maths is Opening in London - Featuring Code-Breaking, Experiments, Challenges and more @mathsworld.com secretldn.com/mathsworld-i...

Highly Recommend ⬇️ At 1pm GMT on Sunday

NEW BLOG: The Wizard of AI www.emaths.co.uk/blog/general...

Etymology, etymology, etymology! A reasonably complete list of mathematical words. Let me know if I am missing anything :-) www.atulranatutors.co.uk/resources/ma...

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! 😬🫣

New blog post. "Mathematics didn’t appear out of thin air. Every concept was wrestled into existence by people often working in times of difficulty, isolation, or even personal struggle. To ignore that context is to lose the very soul of the subject." www.atulranatutors.co.uk/uncategorize...

I love the way @atulrana.bsky.social describes mathematics as “humanity’s poetry of logic”. This is an aspect we miss if we focus solely on the utility of maths. There’s no other subject where the question is so frequently about what pupils “need to know” for future life, employment etc.

New blog post. "Mathematics didn’t appear out of thin air. Every concept was wrestled into existence by people often working in times of difficulty, isolation, or even personal struggle. To ignore that context is to lose the very soul of the subject." www.atulranatutors.co.uk/uncategorize...

A lovely testimonial from a tutee. History of maths is part of what I do! “What made lessons special was how he explained not just how to solve problems, but also the history behind the ideas. His support gave me the confidence and structure I needed.”

"The more you can step back and free yourself from the language (especially the choice of ten as a grouping size), the more flexible and mathematical your viewpoint will be." - Paul Lockhart (Arithmetic). Chart from Pi in the Sky' by John Barrow.

New blog post. "Wiles’ story is the ultimate testament that meaning in mathematics comes not from ease, but from suffering well for something beautiful. By endurance and love for the struggle itself, Wiles solved Fermat’s Last Theorem." www.atulranatutors.co.uk/uncategorize...

New blog post. "Wiles’ story is the ultimate testament that meaning in mathematics comes not from ease, but from suffering well for something beautiful. By endurance and love for the struggle itself, Wiles solved Fermat’s Last Theorem." www.atulranatutors.co.uk/uncategorize...

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

New blog post. "The way the curriculum might be set out in your school, year by year, is not a thing. It is not a thing. It is something that someone has invented to try and control and organise children’s learning — and teachers’ teaching" www.atulranatutors.co.uk/uncategorize...

New blog post. "The way the curriculum might be set out in your school, year by year, is not a thing. It is not a thing. It is something that someone has invented to try and control and organise children’s learning — and teachers’ teaching" www.atulranatutors.co.uk/uncategorize...

Beer, steam trains, live music from my band. This Saturday 🎶 🚂 🍻

NEW BLOG: The Seduction of Destruction www.emaths.co.uk/blog/general...

"When we say something like seven times ten is seventy, there is an amusing content free circularity to such a statement." Paul Lockhart (in his book Arithmetic) on the semantic loop inside the base-ten naming system.

Bearings – from Old English beran (to carry). In navigation, the direction one “carries” or points toward. Usually expressed in degrees using three digits.

Angle – from Latin angulus, meaning corner, nook, or bend. Diminutive of angus or angere, meaning to bend, compress, or tighten. The same root gives words like anguish (emotional tightening) and ankle (a bend in the leg).

New blog post. One of the most overlooked concepts in school mathematics and one of the simplest. What unary and a binary operations are and how they differ from each other. www.atulranatutors.co.uk/uncategorize...

My reflections from @lasalleed.bsky.social's #Mathsconf38 mrmanmaths.wordpress.com/2025/06/23/m...

New blog post! On #MathsConf38 by @lasalleed.bsky.social www.atulranatutors.co.uk/uncategorize...

My #MathsConf38 workshop choices: 1 - @jemmaths.bsky.social 2 - @blatherwicksam.bsky.social 3 - @mrtaylormaths2.bsky.social‬ 4 - @emmaemma53.bsky.social 5 - Dan Rose Join me with @lasalleed.bsky.social, get your ticket here: completemaths.com/community/mathsconf38

🔔 Another fantastic #MathsConf38 workshop announcement! 🎉 Doomsday! Modular Arithmetic and Naming the Day for Any Date 🧠 🎯 This one will be run by @stephenfroggatt.bsky.social 👉 Learn more about this workshop, propose a session and book your ticket here: completemaths.com/community/ma...

Been saying goodbye to tutees I’ve worked with for 4+ years, many I started with in that dreaded 2020 year. My longest-standing tutee of all time started in Year 5 and is now finishing Year 13. I’ve learnt so much by tutoring in such long time scales.

NEW BLOG: Why wise teachers slow down emaths.co.uk/blog/general...

Does anyone have contact with Phil Thorns who produced these? There is a maths tutor in a facebook group I’m part of who would like to offer to host these books on her website so they can continue to be shared going forward but she hasn’t managed to find a way to contact him. #alevelmaths

And that’s how my nephew learnt his number bonds of ten.

Maths people , look who’s decided to join: it’s only the one and only @atulrana.bsky.social