Ohh fun! Yes 22nd July is of course better but generally in the summer hols
Ohh fun! Yes 22nd July is of course better but generally in the summer hols
We'd love to hear how you're celebrating pi day! Pi recitals? Free-hand circle drawing? Something else? Think Maths have some nice arty ideas as well as a competition your students can enter think-maths.co.uk/pi-comp/ #MathsToday
We're looking forward to tomorrow, when Y2s will join us online for a deep dive into dyscalculia with Magdalene Lake followed by a look at what makes a great mathematics task #MathsToday
Love this #MathsToday
Not going to do my usual rant about how much I hate WBD and the whole dressing up thing because I know it brings a lot of joy. But it also brings a lot of stress to a lot of parents and Iβm not sure which way the balance falls.
Today was two planning support sessions with trainees, one observation feedback and a bespoke session with an ECT on supporting her Y11s in the countdown to GCSEs. Rarely have such busy day these days. Nice to get stuck in #MathsToday
We're looking forward to seeing our trainees online on Wednesday. They'll be engaging with some academic reading, have a choice of sessions honing in on different parts of their PGCE assignment, and finishing with an exciting session from Jayne Webster about representations in maths #MathsToday
Sometimes, self-care is reading books, eating pastries, and petting cats.
The Greens are offering a different kind of politics β one that offers a sense of solidarity, camaraderie, and agency in an age of individualism.
Contests like this donβt just give us hope. They make us feel weβre part of something bigger than ourselves.
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Getting back into it this week after an exercised-filled January but a slow start to February! Run before work on Tuesday and two gym classes β
A grid of empty boxes with the headings: A is the point, B is the point,Midpoint of AB, Length of AB. Gradient of a parallel and perpendicular line. y-intercept, x intercept, equation of the line and sketch.
(Yet) another "Blank is Best" slide used in #MathsToday.
I made up the coordinates of A and B and Y10 had to try and fill the rest.
Iβd say it was 10? Because itβs 10 to the power of 1/1 right?
Yes!
Oh yeah, had one of those recently and felt similarly
Is simple interest ever a thing in real life? Watched two lessons on it this week and canβt help thinking βwhatβs the point?β #MathsToday
Sun rising behind a hill
Spring is in the air this morning. I feel this weird sense of hope! βοΈπΌ
Well done to our Y1s who submitted a sample of their literature review yesterday for feedback, another milestone of the PGCE year done β This half-term, many of them will be starting their practitioner research in their classrooms and we're excited to hear how it goes! #MathsToday
And here it is: the SEND reform plan, and why - for all its good intentions - it threatens a terrifying loss of rights, just when the worst imaginable govt might be newly in power www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
White paper says: "Out of 27 European countries, the UK is last in how happy 15-year-olds are with their life. We want to give children their childhood back." It is great to see this being recognised.
This announcement is a positive step for school staff, and a real win for those who have campaigned for fairer maternity provision. There is however still more to do to achieve full parity of maternity pay across the public sector.
www.ft.com/content/5497...
π Students & teachers, hereβs everything you need to know about the new ClassWiz+ range. education.casio.co.uk/blog/introdu...
Nadhim Zahawi thinks London is now unsafe, because the other day a tired-looking man walked past him during the morning rush hour.
A victory for common sense
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/live...
Watching this and absolutely loving it. Wish Iβd been there live to see the chat but still well worth catching up on #MathsToday
Guessing they pre-teach FM lot integration or do all of maths in Y1 then all of further in Y2?
Is this on the new calculator?? I donβt even know where to find it on there. Used to be my fave button!
I give my yr12 pure lot paper homework every lesson and one of themβs just pulled an uno reverse card out of their pocket and placed it on their desk. The gall! π
In #MathsToday I had a great time geeking out on my @ncetm.bsky.social PD Lead course in a lovely school in sunny West London
Algebra tiles demonstrating that 5 consecutive integers can always form a 5 by "something" rectangle.
We used algebra tiles in #MathsToday to prove that the sum of 5 consecutive integers is always a multiple of 5.
A sheet on the normal distribution using rules of thumb for proportions within 1, 2 or 3 standard deviations of the mean. There are three diagrams: one showing 68% of the distribution within 1 sd, a second showing 95% of the distribution within 2sd, and a third showing almost 100% within 3sd. Then there are 4 questions: 1. Masses of adult females of a species of dolphin are normally distributed with mean 220 kg and standard deviation 18 kg. What proportion of female dolphins of this species are between 202 kg and 256 kg in weight? 2. Heights of leprechauns are normally distributed with a mean of 1.2 m. 16 % of leprechauns are over 1.3 m tall. What proportion of leprechauns are under 1 m tall? 3. Harriet is studying a species of lizard. 2.5 % of them have masses under 20g, and 16 % of them have masses over 38 g. What is the mean mass of the lizards, assuming that their masses are normally distributed? 4. Harshant measures the heights of 400 sixteen year old boys. The tallest is 191 cm tall and the shortest is 158 cm tall. Estimate the probability that a randomly selected sixteen year old boy is between 169 cm and 180 cm tall. What assumptions are needed for this estimate to be valid?
Normal distributions in #CoreMaths this week. I like the approach of introducing calculations using the proportions within 1, 2 or 3 standard deviations of the mean to begin with. And thanks to @catrionaagg.bsky.social I always label inflection points.
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