Emily Rae

Err, their specific meaning is the theorems involving circles? Like, the angle between a radius and a tangent is 90°. What does it mean in other places?

Would be rude not to..

A large red hand sewn animal with 4 legs and a tail. Possibly a mouse. I think I was about 7 or 8 when I made this one.

4) Some sort of rodent...? Possibly a suspiciously large mouse. As far as I remember, primary school was mainly sewing things and doing maths from numbered cards from a large box 😅

A felt beach ball in red, green, yellow and blue. Some humbers are stitched on the outside by a sewing machine. There is a hand drawn care label stating it is hand wash only. There is a hole where the stuffing is poking out.

3) A felt ball, made in textiles circa year 8/9. The highlight is a hand drawn care label stating that it is hand wash only (it has the smell of something that has been in the loft for a long time, so I may need to follow these instructions) 😅 This may be the pinnacle of my sewing achievements.

A roughly teddy bear shaped toy, clearly hand sewn by a small child, with 1992 roughly embroidered on the front

2) A teddy bear that I made in primary school, in 1992 (according to the year sewn on the front) when I would have been 6. I think he has character 😁

A grubby looking blue plastic container in a clear plastic bag (previously containing biscuits for cheese) with a label on the top stating TIME CAPSULE YEAR 2000

My parents have been tidying out their loft. I am now in possession of:
1) A time capsule my brother and I made with some friends in the year 2000 (not to be opened until 2050) I don't remember the exact contents, but I seem to recall a tamagotchi, a packet of maltesers, and a copy of Sugar magazine

I'm not sure; I've been too long out of secondary to have a properly considered view, I think.

I think breaking it down into smaller jobs means that every course gets the attention it deserves (and helps more people develop their careers, if they want to) - rather than one person burning out trying to do it all!

As a fairly big department in a sixth form college (~650 students taking some sort of maths course) we have separate heads of A Level Maths, Further Maths, Core Maths and GCSE resit. I think you'd probably have to do something similar (separate heads of each course) if it got too big.

Just read it again - realised you meant, it's harder to connect/create a community over there (I think)
Either way, it's never really appealed to me as a platform 🙂

I'm not sure what you mean by the last bit - do you mean it's harder to present a professional image on here?

Agree with this. Could split it a number of ways: pure vs applied, or "basics" vs advanced, incorporating some of the things currently in L2 further maths or GCSE statistics for the second qualification.

Yes, that is true. I refine my comment to "LinkedIn is a place for teachers to be insufferable about their careers" (I think a place like Bluesky or Twitter-before-it-was-X is much better for teachers to network)

I've never really fancied trying LinkedIn... it strikes me as basically Strava but for people being insufferable about their careers instead of their marathon training 😅
(I say this as someone who is, on occasion, insufferable on Strava...)

I don't think I do, Daniel - I'd be interested to know how circle theorems are linked to music? Or are you just making a more general comment about the two subjects?

It was Daniel McLaury above who made the initial comment implying that circle theorems were linked to music. Ngl I was also keen to hear the details, although I think it might have been a generalised "maths and music sometimes overlap" comment 😢

Happy International Women's Day to all the wonderful Maths women - cis and trans - here on Bluesky 😀 #MathsToday

I blame the students at work. They're always full of germs 😷😅

Oh no, that's really rough 😥 I hope you're not feeling poorly for too long.

Thank you 😊

Haha, I had a similar thing when I had my kitchen refitted in the summer. Found some hot chocolate powder from 2011 🙈😅

Just getting a cold, I think 🤧

A mug of blackcurrant cold and flu relief drink, next to the open sachet with a visible expiry date of October 2017

The down-side of having a pretty good immune system that nobody talks about: All of the drugs in your medicine cupboard are about 9 years out of date 😅🤧🤒

The problem with the current A Level spec is that it's set up to give 7 marks for the solution and 1 mark for the interpretation, so that part often gets sidelined...

Maybe an activity where they *only* write about the assumptions (so, removing the question part and just leaving the context)?

I think you're right, we probably don't give it enough attention. I often just causally mention it after spending much longer on the "main" (ie calculation) part of the question.

I was just wondering the other day (in relation to a mechanics mock, but same principle) whether I spend enough time explicitly talking about how to answer in-context questions 🤔 And if not, how best to do it.

Yeah, it's a struggle to get going if the last few questions are long, but it's worth it for the sprint finish 🏁

I also forget how lucky we are to have Adobe Acrobat at work... my job would take so much longer if I couldn't edit pdfs at will 😏

Ah, that's a shame. I didn't realise they were only one exam board.