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Peter Williams @mathsimpact.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

Just gonna put this out there: There is no good AI model for planning lessons. They'll make you worse at teaching because you haven't spent as long thinking about your lesson. They won't save you time either because you'll spend so long editing the mess they make.

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

Does school mathematics sometimes feel like a checklist of disconnected procedures? What if instead we focused on five BIG IDEAS? Explore this brand new, comprehensive and completely free website for teachers: bigmathematicalideas.org #MathEd #MathTeacher #BigMathematicalIdeas

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Jay Timotheus @jaytimotheus.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

Two great maths opportunities at the new Co-op Academy Strinesdale. Message me if you want any further details, or visit www.waterheadacademy.co.uk/Teaching-vac...

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Jay Timotheus @jaytimotheus.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

Exciting and rare opportunity to join the team as a secondary subject director for Co-op Academies Trust! Do get in touch if you want to know any more about the role. Closing date 2nd March. recruit.sampeople.co.uk/Jobboard/Vac...

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Trust Director of Mathematics | SAMpeople Recruit

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Andrew Stacey @mathforge.org · 16/11/2025

Sunday night seems the right time to post a gallery of (I hope!) every one of Catriona's geometry puzzles. notes.mathforge.org/notes/publis... Give it a moment to load ... there's a *lot* of them! #GeometryPuzzles #UKMathsChat #mathsky

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Puzzle Gallery in Notes

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Jay Timotheus @jaytimotheus.bsky.social · 04/10/2025

Wet weekend in the UK! Great excuse to stay in and listen to our MT Talk podcast... The latest episode (OK we've only done two so far) is called 'Everyone can think mathematically.' open.spotify.com/episode/5r1o...

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Episode 2. Everyone can think mathematically.

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Jay Timotheus @jaytimotheus.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

12 classics. Apparently... Free to access here... padlet.com/admin3620/su...

Screenshot of Padlet with links to 12 ATM articles.

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Em Bell @eltimbre.bsky.social · 14/06/2025

The latest edition of #MathematicsTeaching from @atmmathematics.bsky.social is giving me wonderful “Smash Hits” vibes with a centre spread poster 🌟 Particular highlight for me this issue is the article from @janehawkins.bsky.social on the importance of purposeful talk in maths 🗣️

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Catriona Agg @catrionaagg.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

More Y9 trig #MathsToday: we ditched the tables in favour of drawing multipliers directly onto the triangles. This lesson went pretty well! Still just using sin and cos, and today I kept everything in one orientation as well.

Three triangles, with working in a ratio table to find a missing length.

The same three triangles and answers with the tables removed, and the title How might we skip the table?

The reference triangle with multipliers drawn on: x sin(a) goes from the hypotenuse of 1 to the opposite of sin(a), and x cos(a) goes from the hypotenuse of 1 to the adjacent of cos(a).

Four questions that have been solved by drawing multipliers onto the triangles

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Jay Timotheus @jaytimotheus.bsky.social · 18/05/2025

From the @mathshorizons.bsky.social report May 2025: "We believe that reasoning and problem solving are not separate strands of maths, to be visited in isolation: they are part of what it means to do maths. The curriculum should reflect this truth at every level."

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Vanessa Brown @inspiringmaths.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

My final session with @ncetm.bsky.social #Y5to8continuity WG for @nmmathshub.bsky.social. The opportunity to reflect deeply about division of fractions was such a treat - such deep thinking from WGPs. Many thanks @atmmathematics.bsky.social for the inspiring article atm.org.uk/write/MediaU...

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Howie Hua @howiehua.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

Did you know we can visualize rewriting square roots? Here's how!

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Catriona Agg @catrionaagg.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

Y8 sequences in #MathsToday. This sequence of questions was great!

1) The 1st term in a sequence is 4
and the 8th term is 46
What is the nth term?

2) The 3rd term in a sequence is 23
and the 5th term is 46
What is the nth term?

3) The nth term is 2n + 6
Is 107 a term in the sequence?
Give a reason for your answer.

4) The nth term is 3n - 4.
Is 132 a term in the sequence?
Give a reason for your answer

5) The 1st term in a sequence is 18
and the 9th term is 106
Is 73 a term in the sequence?
Give a reason for your answer

6) The 4th term in a sequence is 31
and the 10th term is 85
Is 98 a term in the sequence?
Give a reason for your answer.

7) The nth term is 11n - 6
What is the position of the term 225 in the sequence?

8)
The nth term is 21n - 41
What is the position of the term 1933 in the sequence?

9) The 10th term of a sequence is 155
The 100th term is 1685
And the 1000th term is 16985
Could the sequence be linear?
Give a reason for your answer.

10)
i) What is the nth term of the sequence of numbers made from the overlap of 3n + 2 and 5n + 4? ii) Investigate for other pairs of sequences.

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Jay Timotheus @jaytimotheus.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

"Alternatively, with a more connected approach to learning, the more mathematics you learn the easier the subject gets... you have an increasing number of conceptual connections... ideas make more and more sense... and you have less and less to consciously remember." Colin Foster in MT295

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NCETM @ncetm.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

Teaching advice from people who’ve never taught? No thanks! 👎 Every NCETM resource is created by people who know the realities of the classroom from first-hand experience – like our Secondary Team! 👀 #Maths #EduSky #UKMathsChat

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Nick Lowry @nicklowryed.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

Amazing opportunity to be our next Trust Director of English! An exciting and varied role and the opportunity to have a national profile with our large Trust. Virtual information sessions are available, details are in the advert. www.tes.com/jobs/vacancy...

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Trust Director of English, Trust Wide - Tes Jobs

Co-op Academies Trust, United Kingdom

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Jay Timotheus @jaytimotheus.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

Great opportunity to join the subject director team at Co-op Academies Trust. Work across a range of schools and make a genuine difference in the lives of thousands of young people. Link: www.coopacademies.co.uk/page/?title=...

Advert for Co-op Academies Trust Director of English post.

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NCETM @ncetm.bsky.social · 31/12/2024

👏 Huge congratulations to @johnwestwell.bsky.social, the NCETM’s Director for System Leadership, on receiving an MBE! John is the architect of the Maths Hubs Programme, now in its tenth year and supporting nearly 60% of schools in England.

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New Year honour for the NCETM’s John Westwell

John Westwell, the NCETM’s Director for System Leadership, awarded an MBE for services to education

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Brian Bilston @brianbilston.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

Today’s poem celebrates Fibonacci Day. It’s called ‘Word Crunching’.

Word Crunching

I
wrote
a poem
on a page
but then each line grew
to the word sum of the previous two
until I began to worry about all these words coming with such frequency
because as you can see, it can be easy to run out of space when a poem gets all Fibonacci sequency

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Jay Timotheus @jaytimotheus.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

Looking forward to reading this...

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Jay Timotheus @jaytimotheus.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

#MathsEdPoetry day 3 (well almost, I won't have time in the morning!) The I-we-you structure in lessons can easily become an "I", then, "I-again-but-with-minimal-pupil-interaction", then, "Off-you-go-whether-you-understand-it-or-not" structure instead. This is a pupil perspective.

A poem about what happens when the I-we-you structure starts to have more focus than the learning.

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Jay Timotheus @jaytimotheus.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

#MathsEdPoetry day 2. Both the @atmmathematics.bsky.social principle "the power to learn rests with the learner" and Daniel Willingham's phrase "learning is the residue of thought" point to the idea that learning is done by the learner. It is not something that can be done to them. From MT287.

A poem about the experience of learning.

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Jay Timotheus @jaytimotheus.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

Re-posting some of my #MathsEdPoetry on here over the next few days. This is 'Think with me not for me'. First published in MT277 @atmmathematics.bsky.social

Poem about mathematics lessons from a pupil perspective.

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Richard Perring @learningmaths.bsky.social · 25/10/2024

“Conceptualisation does not follow automatically from performing procedures several times, even if they are all done correctly.” From the latest @atmmathematics.bsky.social journal.

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Adam Mercer @amercermaths.bsky.social · 21/09/2024

Also (though it possibly needs some rearranging) made a "Sometimes, Always, Never" on parts of a circle that I've got to say... I'm pretty chuffed with 👍 #mathschat

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Andrew Stacey @mathforge.org · 10/09/2024

Okay, here we go. Functions via Chicken Run. First up, the fundamental understanding of functions: "Chickens go in, pies come out." #MathsToday #ALevelMaths youtu.be/ae50P_ajLxA?...

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Chicken Run - What kind of pies?

YouTube video by Gimmeanewuser

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Sam Blatherwick @blatherwicksam.bsky.social · 09/09/2024

A hack I showed students was that if you take a prime number and add 30 to it you are likely to get another prime number. I think when I'm doing more work on factors we'll look at this some more Explain why it works and why it fails is worth exploring #mathschat

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