Nicky Gale

The land before time is the best!!

@jainm.bsky.social @drbennison.bsky.social are these any use for after half term??

#ALevelMaths

#ALevelMaths

MathsFest screen

Fantastic day at MathsFest today!! All presenters were amazing. Added bonus, two of our Bilborough students won Maths Slam, so proud 🥳🥳🥳

Silverstone museum sign

Me in a classic racing car

Silverstone was a great first stop on our two day A Level Maths trip!
Next today is pizza express and Back to the Future Musical, tomorrow MathsFest!!

We only give it to them as independent work so don’t spend any lesson time! I can’t share the video but may be able to share the form, let me check!

We introduce it in year 12, one of my colleagues made a great video about it and all the key points, then we made a Microsoft form with some key questions for them to answer about it. We essentially set it as flipped learning for independent work. Then use some exam questions in lessons.

😯 *goes to fetch laptop*

A friend of mine has just launched this website that I think is pretty great for generating quick starters for A-Level maths and he has started adding some questions for Further Maths too.

mrhardymaths.co.uk

#MathsToday #ALevelMaths

Star tattoo on my foot

Three stars! ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ Love both of yours! I also would like another one on my wrist next! Xx

Happy birthday! Cute tattoo, I got a tattoo on my foot when I turned 40!

I am not sure I’ll get the same traction here as I did on the dark place but please answer and REPOST and let’s try to build a lovely bookish thread.

The best book you read this year was…

Mine undoubtedly The Elements by John Boyne (please check trigger warnings first).

Liane Moriarty Here One moment book cover

I had to look back at Goodreads to find one I gave 5 stars too (I read lots of books and I struggle to remember any 🤷🏻‍♀️) I mostly enjoy books that are easy to read before going to sleep!

Yes, this will be so useful for us too. We do ‘similar questions’ after each assessment (which are all last years questions all mixed up) and it will be amazing to not have to spend ages finding them!!

Not on AQA, I’m not sure about other boards 😊

#WeeklyWins I set revision cover for my year 12 FM class (thanks @drbennison.bsky.social for the revision clock/videos). They were free to do the work wherever they liked. One of the students sent me some photos of lots of them working in the classroom together ‘locked in’ using the big whiteboards

#weeklywins I raided physics and used actual equipment to teach moments to my year 13s and it worked well! #alevelmaths

Give the gift of Maths to yourself??

Multiply all by logs

See you on Friday!

Was it scary? I love escape rooms but would hate the ones that have jump scares or any kind of horridness!!

Any plans for A Level papers to be on there too?

Also ‘mini whiteboard quick questions’ are great, a colleague wrote a PowerPoint with absolutely loads of them and every now and then I pick 10 to do at the start of a lesson

I use mathsbox ALevel 5 questions for a starter, students complete them on big whiteboards around the room in pairs, they are always a mix of previous topics, sometimes I have to swap a question if we haven’t done it yet but mostly you can use them as is!

@drbennison.bsky.social brought in mince pies on Monday!!!!! Madness…but I obviously had one and it was good!

Thanks to those who have sent data already. To hopefully make it easier to submit your prior attainment and @aqaeducation.bsky.social Maths A-Level Grade please use the file linked here: www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/pdqqh... DM me for instructions on when to send it. Hoping to share beginning of November.

#ALevelMaths please get involved in helping to produce some A-Level transition matrices for AQA A-Level maths.

I felt exactly the same today, it’s my 22nd year and I still felt overwhelmed! And there’s never enough time to get everything ready!!

I was worried for a moment that it was going to tell me the estimated age….no thanks!! 🤣🤣