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Jamie Wood @jamiewoodmaths.bsky.social · 20h

How is there not one in Birmingham?!

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Andrew @andrewmaths1.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

TMUA/ESAT Resources Update: Due to popular demand I've uploaded the worksheets and answers in pdf form on Google Drive. Link below. drive.google.com/drive/folder... Please let me know if you find any errors. Questions are taken from lots of sources, some are more obscure than others. c:

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TMUA Resources (on bsky) - Google Drive

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Howie Hua @howiehua.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Mean Girls but it's a movie about Cady learning the different types of mean

Cady looking at the 3 mean girls, labeled the arithmetic, geometric, and harmonic mean

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Jamie Wood @jamiewoodmaths.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I don't think you can do it nicely in the complex mode on desmos as far as I know. You can do something like this though to cobble it together

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The Maths Bazaar @themathsbazaar.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Pearson Edexcel Maths training events - still time to book for 1st October pdacademy.pearson.com/courses.html...

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Jamie Wood @jamiewoodmaths.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Thanks for this - signed up for GCSE and A level marking guidance ones 👍

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John Brennan-Rhodes @jbee-arr.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

TMUA mocks now live on the free @meimaths.bsky.social and AMSP course 'TMUA On Demand'! Original questions available nowhere else... written by humans! Pass on to your year 13s in their final weeks of prep. #TMUA #ALevelMaths amsp.org.uk/higher-level...

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Preparing for the TMUA (Test of Mathematics for University Admission) - On Demand - AMSP

Prepare for the TMUA (Test of Mathematics for University Admission) at your own pace

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JustMaths Mel @justmaths.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

The letter I'd like to send to parents ... maths is not fecking genetic... lets stop maths bashing ... one person at a time .. justmaths.co.uk/the-letter-i...

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The letter I'd like to send to parents about maths

Maths ability is not genetic

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Jamie Wood @jamiewoodmaths.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Can you explain what these are? Is it the existing content you had already but just organised in a way to match the texbooks?

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Jamie Wood @jamiewoodmaths.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Glad to hear flowol is still around! I remember using that in about 2003ish!

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Jamie Wood @jamiewoodmaths.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I am also in the "never square both sides" camp for solving modulus equations!

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Jamie Wood @jamiewoodmaths.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I am definitely camp (b). And yet everyday I tell myself "I should really shut this down properly" and never do

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Jamie Wood @jamiewoodmaths.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

There is a "change topic" button at the top right to flick between the two

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Jamie Wood @jamiewoodmaths.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

jammyix.github.io/orderoftrans... There is now a section for both af(x)+b and f(ax+b) Enjoy and let me know any feedback (or horrific errors!)

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Jamie Wood @jamiewoodmaths.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Definitely could do I think. I picked f(ax+b) for now because it was definitely a gap in my own resources, whereas I had lots on af(x)+b. Would be nice to have a complete set though :)

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Jason GRIZZLED Bittel @bittelmethis.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

BREAKING NEWS: New cat species just dropped! 🧪 What is a tilcayo, exactly? Well, it's a small wild cat in the genus Leopardus and a member of the tiger cat species complex, but it is NOT a tigrina, oncilla, kodkod, Geoffroy's cat... www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/arti...

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Meet the First New Cat Species Discovered in 100 years

A small, spotted tiger cat from Bolivia may just be the beginning of a wave of new small cat species.

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Jamie Wood @jamiewoodmaths.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

This inspired me to make something with claude about transformations of the form f(ax+b) Have a play with it here: jammyix.github.io/orderoftrans... (well aware there are many similar versions of this about online with desmos etc, but wanted to see what claude could do)

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Tom Bowler @ridermeister.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Another early question for new Year 12 FM pupils. This one is intended to show them that mathematics (at A-Level) doesn't really have 'hard' topics, we can make it all 'hard'! #MathsToday #AlevelMaths #UKMathsChat

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The Mark Scheme @themarkscheme.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Could not be happier at what this question I wrote threw up as discussion points in today's lesson. Even better than I had hoped. #mathstoday #alevelmaths

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Jamie Wood @jamiewoodmaths.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Yes I always encourage to draw a line showing the path it would continue on if there was no wall! I understand their confusion I think - the angle between the incoming line and the outgoing line on a diagram does seem like it should be the answer on first look!

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Jamie Wood @jamiewoodmaths.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

E.g. We had groups that had a 3 hr double lesson on a Thursday, then saw them again for 1.5 hrs on Friday. Then no maths again for almost a week. That was pretty rubbish! However If you had 90 mins on Mon, Weds, Fri that seems quite good?

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Jamie Wood @jamiewoodmaths.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

I have taught both systems. You definitely change how you teach quite a lot. I think I like the "little and often" system more though just because that feels better for keeping things fresh in their minds. I think a bigger factor was when they had the 1.5 hr lessons in the week though.

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Jamie Wood @jamiewoodmaths.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

This is very interesting. Do you have a source for this graph?

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Jamie Wood @jamiewoodmaths.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Big respect for them not making this an AI-made poster

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Graham Cumming @mathsnot.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

It’s a small percentage of students who resit more than twice (and should we admire them for their resilience?) - so most of them aren’t on an “endless cycle”

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Graham Cumming @mathsnot.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

GCSE Mathematics grade boundaries 2017-2026 (England)

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Jamie Wood @jamiewoodmaths.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

just feels like they're making a rod for their own back there really

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Jamie Wood @jamiewoodmaths.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Didn't notice that before. Not sure why they would dictate a method there. Just have (a) as show that the normal reaction is 19.6, and (b) find X. There's definitely some questions, mainly in pure I'd say, where that sort of scaffolding helps. But in mech there's just so many ways!

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Jamie Wood @jamiewoodmaths.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

I get it; they can make a poster really quickly without even opening any piece of software really. Or providing much thought or time investment. However, not Maths Inspiration has a poster which looks the same as a local gardening company, the pub down the road, and a kids' football club

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Jamie Wood @jamiewoodmaths.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Eclipse shining through gaps in the leaves of a bush onto our wall yesterday! Pretty cool 🌘

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Jamie Wood @jamiewoodmaths.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

What are the courses like? What's their success rates like? This raises so many questions for me!

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Jamie Wood @jamiewoodmaths.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

"we've always done it this way" is the explanation for about 90% of the systems we have in UK education!

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benjamin dickman @benjamindickman.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

New JHM! The July 2026 issue includes an article by a student I taught for whom this was her grade 11 independent research project: scholarship.claremont.edu/jhm/vol16/is... She explored an area of #mathematics called "queueing theory" and wrote all about it in the context of Disney! #iTeachMath ♾️

screenshot of linked paper: title text, name, affiliation, and synopsis

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Jamie Wood @jamiewoodmaths.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Yes you are definitely right there

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Jamie Wood @jamiewoodmaths.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

5 a day continues to be one of the best maths resources about IMO

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Jamie Wood @jamiewoodmaths.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Yeah, have a look through these or the ones on Edexcel Emporium, old O level papers were hard for sure cloudlearnx.win/old-exam-pap...

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Old Exam Papers Archive – Cloud LearnX

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Jamie Wood @jamiewoodmaths.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

There are lots of good reasons to organise their work like that, but Ofsted definitely isn't one of them. Presumably things like evidencing feedback and actions is what Ofsted might look for, but there are loads of ways of doing that.

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Jamie Wood @jamiewoodmaths.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

I used to go out and visit some year 10 students on work experience week each year, and saw quite a few students really like this aspect of it.

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Jamie Wood @jamiewoodmaths.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Definitely agree with this point, but feels like maybe the jumping off point is just moving. How many students are there who did A levels and went to University, then ended up realising it probably wasn't what they should have done?

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Jamie Wood @jamiewoodmaths.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

The whole thing about "jobs in the local area" is interesting. I feel like students already do a fair bit of self-selection on this as it is. I worked in a coastal tourist-y area and we always had good numbers of students doing travel & tourism courses for that reason, for example

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Jamie Wood @jamiewoodmaths.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

I think I do agree with it in principle though. I've worked in schools where they did a bit of link up with local FE colleges for some students to go and do more technical stuff for an afternoon a week and it was brilliant for them.

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Jamie Wood @jamiewoodmaths.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

www.tes.com/magazine/new... All quite vague atm, definitely more detail needed. Would need big amounts of funding for staff, equipment and facilities. And if doing things like sending students to a local FE college who do have the facilities, then FE would obviously need a lot of extra funding too

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New technical pathways in secondary schools by 2028, PM announces

Schools will be inspected by Ofsted on vocational offering, but sector leaders want more details on multiple aspects of the plans

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Jamie Wood @jamiewoodmaths.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

If you have coursework but put in all the safeguards you possibly can to ensure no cheating happens, you basically just end up with another exam. When coursework was a thing in Maths most teachers seemed to freely admit it was a bit of a joke? At least that was what I observed!

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Catriona Agg @catrionaagg.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

Three regular hexagons. The smallest has area 6. What’s the pink area? #geometrypuzzle

Two corners of the large yellow hexagon, and one corner of each of the other two hexagons, lie on the circle. All the hexagons are regular.

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The Maths Bazaar @themathsbazaar.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

It was “explain why 3.7 does not round to 3 to the nearest whole number“ and if they put “it rounds to 4 “they got a mark, but if they put it rounds to 4.0 they didn’t

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