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Miss Morris @morrismaths359.bsky.social · 10h

#Mathstoday My year 11s had a go at this lovely Dr Austin task today - Recognising graphs. They not been exposed loads to cubic of reciprocal graphs so did find it hard at time but most of them got there in the end.

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Aaron PS @ronpaq.bsky.social · 13h

A sequence of tasks leading up to finding the HCF of two numbers from their prime factorisations. Lots of work on finding factors given a prime factorisation before looking for common factors of two numbers. I chose not to use Venn diagrams and allowed the students to reason their way through it.

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Nathan Day @nathanday.bsky.social · 11h

I hope, at some point, to talk in depth about the current state of AI in aiding maths teaching/learning. But searching through past papers from other specifications to find suitable exam questions used to take me many hours, and AI has made that considerably quicker and more efficient.

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Nathan Day @nathanday.bsky.social · 11h

In #MathsToday, Year 13 did some exam practice of Differential Equations. This was a nice opportunity to link in some of their other Pure/Core Pure topics.

Differential equations question featuring de Moivre's theorem.

Differential equations question featuring recursive integration by parts.

Differential equations question featuring Harmonic Form.

Differential equations question featuring Hyperbolic trig.

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Andrew Stacey @mathforge.org · 22h

This is really nice, and something to consider for an maths extension activity. Might use it for my next "Maths Conversation Class". #UKMathsChat #ALevelMaths #ITeachMaths

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Miss Morris @morrismaths359.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

#Mathstoday First time using Ai today to help get questions (I'm reasonably anti Ai) Gave the Ai 7 questions of what I was looking for and it did manage to create some ok stuff. Couldn't find questions on the topic from actual humans (which I would have preferred)

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Kerry Dunton @kerrydunton.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

#MathsToday we were discussing careers today? Do you do anything with KS5 that links to careers especially linking to specific topics? Good sites for videos etc. I know there's the maths careers website but I'm interested in what you do as a department to share the ideas. Thanks

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Aaron PS @ronpaq.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

More IMC problems today. This time without presenting the multiple choice responses, and two similar problems which allowed weaker students to have something to base their ideas on. It was much more productive. #mathstoday

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Nathan Day @nathanday.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

In #MathsToday, Year 10 did some averages with fractions: interwovenmaths.com/averages-wit... This was one of the original Interwoven Maths tasks when the site launched, and I still love the different fraction skills it requires, e.g. finding the midpoint of two fractions in the third column.

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Averages with Fractions | Interwoven Maths

Averages practice finding mean, median and range for fractional data, with answers in simplest form.

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Aaron PS @ronpaq.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Now I am no longer preparing students for GCSEs in Year 10/11, working in the French system, I find it so liberating writing assessments. No need to use past paper questions and I can develop interesting tasks which will really allow me to assess the student mathematically. Like this one.

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Jo Morgan @mathsjem.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

I think this exercise from Heylings will help both Y11FM and Y12FM students understand how to form a transformation matrix.

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Harry Zafar @harryzafar.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Came across a guy on TikTok who creates tools for teachers. This site is great for creating diagrams. Best one I've come across. Will be using it for lessons and assessments. mathfigures.com E.g. angles on parallel lines in the pictures. @mathsjem.bsky.social #MathsToday

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Amanda Austin @draustinmaths.com · 11/10/2026

Continuing to add to the A-level Further Maths resources: ✨Maclaurin Series Crack the Code ✨Momentum and Impulse with Vectors Fill in the Blanks ✨Work Done on an Inclined Plane Fill in the Blanks All freely available at www.draustinmaths.com/a-level-further-maths #ALevelMaths #MathsToday

An image of an A-level Further Maths resource titled Maclaurin Series Crack the Code. It consists of 8 A-level style questions on Maclaurin series that students must solve, then add their answers together to get a code.

An image of an A-level Further Mechanics resource titles Momentum and Impulse with Vectors Fill in the Blanks. Students must find missing values of mass, initial and final velocity, force, time and impulse in a table, given some of the information.

An image of an A-level Further Mechanics resource titled Work Done on an Inclined Plane Fill in the Blanks. Students must fill in the missing values of mass, tension, frictional force, coefficient of friction, distance, angle and work done in a table, given some of the information.

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Jshmtn @jshmtn.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

If anyone wants to come work in my dept then shout up. Would consider P/T for right candidate. Great team. Kids love coming to maths because of the team we have. The big things are in place we’re now in a position to be building consistency across the dept by utilising faculty time for talking

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ProfSmudge @profsmudge.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Flippin' flaps

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Paul Rowlandson @drrowlandson.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

A few weeks ago, I posted a blog about following up worked examples by asking "What would happen to the answer if I changed the question slightly?" Here's another example of this from the blog. wp.me/p9t8DE-s8 #Mathschat #MTBoS #iTeachMaths #Maths

Initial question:

Find the mean, median, mode and range for the dataset:

12, 13, 14, 17, 17, 19, 20

Answers:
mean = 16, median = 17, mode = 17, range = 8

What would happen if I changed the question?
What would happen if we increased the last number by 1 (20 to 21)?
Which summary statistics would change? Why?
Which summary statistics would stay the same? Why?

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Kerry Dunton @kerrydunton.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

In #MathsToday #ALevelFM we were working on de Moivres theorem. All was good until we got to ones like this where they needed to make the arguments match. Does anyone know where I could find more questions like this?

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Miss Morris @morrismaths359.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

#Mathstoday Used this NCETM task today for finding the area of triangles. Students have to measure the base and height. The original sheet doesn't have the heights drawn on but for my group they needed that scaffolding. They need a bit more time in the next lesson but I'm happy how it went.

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Stuart @sxpmaths.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Today's TMUA warm-up question

$\int_0^3 \floor{x}\ceil{x} dx$

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Jonathan Hall @studymaths.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Mini-update: You can now scroll through the topics by using the left and right arrow keys.

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Miss Morris @morrismaths359.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

#Mathstoday Used this lovely Mathsbot task. So many of my students said the red shape had the greatest perimeter.

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Katie Steckles @steckl.es · 07/10/2026

Day 7 of #mathober is all about Five Circles, and I've picked my favourite five circles to showcase. Or are they all just the same circle...? PDF: katiesteckles.co.uk/mo7

Photos of each of the pages of a hand-drawn zine about circles

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Jonathan Hall @studymaths.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

We introduced collecting like terms with Y7 in #MathsToday

Six pairs of expressions, formed with Algebra tiles with the prompt "Simplify these expressions".

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Nathan Day @nathanday.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

In #MathsToday, Year 10 were doing some averages from frequency tables. They started with this from one of @studymaths.bsky.social's #1001MathsBots [table not revealed at first!]. And then moved on to some variationy practice questions. interwovenmaths.com/frequency-ta...

A 6 × 6 grid of purple dice showing scores from 1 to 6, alongside a blank table with columns ‘Score’, ‘Frequency’ and ‘Total Spots’ for scores 1–6. Heading: ‘How many spots? How did you count them?’

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Catriona Agg @catrionaagg.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I love your use of colour here!

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Dale Chapman @dalechapman.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

In #mathstoday, the fractional power flower.

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Miss Morris @morrismaths359.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

#Mathstoday Year 10 had a go at this task that @andrewmaths1.bsky.social suggested. Scaffolded the questions before they had a go. Started with 2(x+1) + 5(x+1) pretty much all of them expanded then simplified after.

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Nathan Day @nathanday.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

In #MathsToday, Year 8 have started a chapter on Ratio and Proportion. Certainly a contender for one of my favourite topics to teach. And it is one with a lot of particularly lovely NCETM Checkpoints to choose from - these are two highlights for me. www.ncetm.org.uk/classroom-re...

Checkpoint 19: Dough. Chapati dough uses 2 cups of flour for every 1 cup of water; pizza dough uses 3 cups of flour for every 2 cups of water. Six bowls contain: a) 9 cups flour, 6 cups water; b) 12 cups flour, 8 cups water; c) 12 cups flour, 6 cups water; d) 18 cups flour, 12 cups water; e) 24 cups flour, 12 cups water; f) 24 cups flour, 18 cups water. Students decide whether each is chapati dough, pizza dough or neither, then consider what could be added to change each dough into the other kind.

Checkpoint 20: Imperfect meringues. A perfect meringue uses 150 g sugar for every 3 eggs. Five mixtures contain: a) 200 g sugar and 6 eggs; b) 450 g sugar and 7 eggs; c) 400 g sugar and 9 eggs; d) 500 g sugar and 9 eggs; e) 500 g sugar and 10 eggs. Students determine what must be added to make each mixture perfect, then consider other possible combinations, including whether a perfect meringue could use 20 eggs or 20 g sugar.

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Aaron PS @ronpaq.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I gave this IMC problem to my Year 9s today and gave them 4 minutes of independent thinking time before 5 minutes in groups. I felt it wasn't too productive a use of time. Some really had no idea where to begin. #MathsToday

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Katie Steckles @steckl.es · 05/10/2026

Today I learned the most fun new maths words of any #mathober zine I've made so far - hope you enjoy also learning the enjoyable new words! Inellipses are ace! PDF: katiesteckles.co.uk/mo5

Photo of the pages of a handwritten zine about the inellipse

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Hannah @neechmaths.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

In #mathstoday yr 1 #Alevelmaths sketched lots of polynomials on MWBs which set them up well for practice with Dr Austin worksheets. Yr 2 began sequences and series, introducing lots of terms and notation making use of the MEI thinking about sequences activity. Links below.

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Paddy MacMahon @paddymacmahon.com · 05/10/2026

#ALevelMaths #MathsToday Find the exact value of the green area.

The ellipse 9x²-4xy+6y²=10 is shown in red, together with a circle, centre (0, 0) which is inside the ellipse and touches it at two points. The set of points inside the ellipse but outside the circle is shaded green.

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Jonathan Hall @studymaths.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

In #MathsToday we were rearranging where factorising is required. I like how the first three are relatively easy, but our answer to "make c the subject" gives us an insight into how we might rearrange for x.

A slide with the formula ax = bx + c and four prompts to rearrange in terms of a, b, c and finally x.

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Peter Rowlett @peterrowlett.net · 05/10/2026

When I visit schools in my home town of Nottingham for maths activities, I offer topics related to the history of the city, but schools usually choose modelling, cryptography, etc. I ask @teakayb.mathsy.space why there isn’t more interest in the local connection and what schools are looking for.

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Talking Maths In Public - Podcast

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UK Maths Trust @ukmathstrust.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

The Team Maths Challenge is BACK for 2027, with over 30 venues across the country offering a day of exciting mathematics for students in Year 8 and 9. Four rounds of fun, challenge and competition await - sign up now! 📣 Teachers! Head to your Competition Profile or ukmt.org.uk to register today!

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Paddy MacMahon @paddymacmahon.com · 05/10/2026

#ALevelMaths Looking at iterative solutions to equations today, so I wrote this root finder in @desmos.com, utilising the Newton-Raphson method. r(a, n) uses n iterations starting at x=a to identify a root. #MathsToday www.desmos.com/calculator/4...

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Newton-Raphson

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Colin Foster @colinfoster77.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

My blog post looks at how short video animations can be used to address a range of topics from school and university mathematics blog.lboro.ac.uk/cmc/2026/10/... #MathEd #ukmathschat

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Two-Minute Math: Mathematical Explanations Using Animations – Centre for Mathematical Cognition

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Jenny Cains @jennycains.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

In #mathstoday, I’ve been playing around with using Numicon to represent the structure of different sequences visually for my Year 7 students.

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Jonathan Hall @studymaths.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Need 100 higher tier GCSE questions for some reason? MathsBot can do that for you with one-click. mathsbot.com/revise?min=1...

A screenshot of 100 GCSE questions randomly generated with MathsBot.

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Nathan Day @nathanday.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

In #MathsToday, Year 13 Further Maths had a lesson in the morning to revise for an afternoon Core Pure 1 assessment. I printed off a nice double-sided A3 revision mat. There's something about that format that I find feels more approachable than 50 questions in a list! interwovenmaths.com/mats/cp1

Page 1 of a Revision Mat of 50 Core Pure 1 questions in a grid.

Page 2 of a Revision Mat of 50 Core Pure 1 questions in a grid.

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Nathan Day @nathanday.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

The first resource to get me hooked on the Revision Mat was Access Maths's brilliant '100 Questions!' GCSE Crossover page, which I've used with many a Year 10/11 class. Can be found here, near the bottom, below a load of other grade revision resources: www.accessmaths.co.uk/revision-res...

Access Maths 100 Questions GCSE Crossover Revision Maths.

https://www.accessmaths.co.uk/uploads/4/4/2/3/44232537/100_questions_revision_mat.pdf

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Desmos Studio @desmos.com · 02/10/2026

You can finally get your ducks in a row (and column). Type “matrix” in any Desmos graphing tool to get started. Learn more: help.desmos.com/hc/en-us/art... #iteachmath #mathsky #linearalgebra #matrices

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Miss Morris @morrismaths359.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

#Mathstoday Year 8 have started looking at estimation today. They have 10 seconds to give a good estimation of this on their whiteboard. Made via Mathsbot

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CantabKitty @cantabkitty.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

desmos help 🚨 can I get it to display these complex nos with the lines coming from O?

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Laura @mathsteacher09.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Teach fast, teach twice. Discuss.

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Marco @malmeida.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

omgomgomg i'm so excited @desmos.com

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ProfSmudge @profsmudge.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

In #MathsToday I was working with a young adult with limited schooling. He struggled with mental arithmetic (he got 27 for 18+10) and explained that he would use a written method instead. This seems extreme, but with our emphasis on formal procedures, is it all that different for some UK pupils?

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Mary Bourassa @marybourassa.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

In #MathsToday (yesterday) my #MHF4U students were having trouble determining the leading coefficient of a polynomial in factored form so I gave them this series to do in random groups at the whiteboards. It was quick and worked really well.

A series of equations of polynomials from a quadratic in standard form to a degree 6 polynomial in factored form: y = 0.5(5-x)(x-1)^2(2x+8)^3 where one thing is changed at a time to make each one a little more challenging than the previous one

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Dan Lewis @4301maths.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

A quick recap of solving equations for Year 8 tomorrow. #mathstoday #ukmathsteachers #mathsteachers

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