It's very good. Example with year 2 work.

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Update: Me demonstrating the new "What do you want to teach?" search functionality on the MathsBot homepage.

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Thanks for sharing. It's reassuring to hear that. I asked as I hear of many schools that boast they finish much earlier and have lots of past paper time and can't see how to do that?

Hi, on the subject of a level lessons, when do you usually finish the normal a level with yr13? We always find it very tight. For context we have eleven 50 mins per fortnight.

And here he is @mrbansalmaths.bsky.social

Thank you, all credit goes to my 2nd in dept. who made the website.

Yes, and we share them freely here hgsmaths.com. Just go into any year group page and you'll see them.

Feel free to check out HGSMaths.com. You can go into any year group page and see our 5 year curriculum map, and if you wish, go into the unit booklets to see more precisely that the structure is.

@drfrostmaths.bsky.social could you give me any information on when the greyed out key skills for A level are likely to be completed?

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Thanks, this is great. As a HoD I can turn this into a quick checklist and ask the team to point out any they haven't heard of.

We do a lot with it including using the courses and setting centralised retrieval homework. We are a booklet school and use it a lot in them too.

Other big thing is it is great at ks5 and for FMSQs

@drfrostmaths.bsky.social all the way

This is great and a real help. How did you find the teaching hours amongst your dept?

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I find any blogs you write which draw on the experiences you gain visiting schools insightful and unique. In that, very few of us can get the wider picture and it really does help you better understand your own context. For eg your sixth form blog. Then the excellent stuff on pedagogy etc links well

I'll add a potentially controversial take which is pessimistic unfortunately, the variable that is parents. Too many just don't do the basics and too many are willing to outright lie for their children. It's such a limiting factor and beyond the scope of just education.

it's largely down to the poor implementation IMO. Namely, too many focii, giving each one HT to implement, and above all else, just poor CPD (lack of applying the science of learning to teachers). But 'you get to mark your own hwk' so you can paper over this if you wish.

How far should we trust ‘edubooks’? Reading a slew of educational books may not be the best way to make your teaching truly evidence-informed, suggests Christian Bokhove

@adamboxereducation.bsky.social , making a point you made not long ago on the pod RE too many edu books: www.tes.com/magazine/tea.... Could you remind me again what was the small (3-5) no of books which you mentioned being the root of many newer ones? Thanks.

Great read. Could I ask what your thoughts on how AI could develop with online homework platforms or indeed adaptive assessment to replace national exams. That seems more likely?

Have you tried using AI to do this? @blatherwicksam.bsky.social following on from your post.

Could you share which AI you used a example of prompts? For the example pair did you just feed in a screen clip of original Q?

We do something similar to @mrsouthernmaths.bsky.social , but the first report has no grades. In terms of questions we use Edexcel so dip into shadow papers. I also throw in some madas Q's to add extra rigour at the end. I try to use A2 qs as opposed to AS ones. Also look at IAL if you do Edexcel.

Should we still have exams at 16, or should we bite the bullet and workt towards a 14-19 system (inspired by OCR announcing a short GCSE maths for some)?

Wow

We have very short lunches, 35 mins. This year I asked for a form period once a week. But that just about gives us 20 mins once a week in years 10 and 11. I just feel it's not enough and very disjointed.

5 lessons! Is that all of year 11 or just FM? Are lessons an hour?

How much time to you get per lunchtime approx.?

@aqaeducation.bsky.social We've tried to get GCSE FM going but struggled to find the right amount of time. Would really appreciate hearing how schools do it.