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Maths Locke @mathsmuse.bsky.social · 17h

Unfortunately they are very attached to pupil progress and we've just bought into it for several more years despite its many... quirks.

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Maths Locke @mathsmuse.bsky.social · 17h

I wish I could convince leadership to move to this from Pupil Progress.

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EnCeeMaths @enceemaths.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

New signs for the department on Monday...

A poster in the style of the "Now That what's I call music" album covers that says " Now That's What I Call Maths"

A poster in the style of "The Legend of Zelda" that says "The Department of Maths"

A sign in the classic London Underground style with a bluer palette that says "Maths Department"

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Maths Locke @mathsmuse.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

The topics are just what we've covered in class that week. It functions as hw as well because they have to get good scores or come back to get help.

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Maths Locke @mathsmuse.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

It's not wrong. You do save 25p. You just also save another 75p

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Maths Locke @mathsmuse.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

2-3 exam questions done as a do now then peer marked. Takes about 30 mins total (too long for do now but not bad in the grand scheme). I collect and record RAG and notes. Kind of like an exit ticket but also exam practice/exposure.

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Maths Locke @mathsmuse.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

In #MathsToday I did my weekly yr 12 exam quiz. The questions were hard this time, using GCSE knowledge but at a level level with a level content on top. I told them I'd stopped going easy on them now they'd settled in. Next week we re do those questions and they WILL get 100%.

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Maths Locke @mathsmuse.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Every time I think I've "completed" HoD and now just need to improve the current status, I find a new Thing that is a shift that will need planning but massively improve things.

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Chartered College of Teaching @collegeofteaching.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Today we have published the first edition of our new publication, In Praxis, in collaboration with Twinkl. It focuses on SEND and Inclusion and will help schools put evidence-informed inclusive practice into action. Read In Praxis here: chartered.pulse.ly/hx54l6k55o

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Maths Locke @mathsmuse.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I have a stitch and bitch on Google meet now and I've just discovered all the effects. My friends have not joined the call yet. Excited for their reactions to cat with human mouth.

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Maths Locke @mathsmuse.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Still feeling nervous energy after department review day. It was very helpful and pointed out how strong we've become and also areas that I'd become blind to that we need to work on. My, it was nerve wracking though.

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Maths Locke @mathsmuse.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Anyone got any "best practice" on oracy and writing in secondary maths?

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Maths Locke @mathsmuse.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

In #MathsToday yr 10 did area of parallelograms and triangles. I started with a diagram with a "trap" side and made the first step to explicitly identify and discard the trap side. Significantly reduced issues of multiplying wrong numbers because they had it as part of the process.

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Maths Locke @mathsmuse.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Was the highlighting helpful? No. Was it fun? Yes.

Page of a notebook of notes on Bandura's social cognition theory with lots of highlighted boxes.

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Maths Locke @mathsmuse.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I'm such a nerd. I'm meant to be going out for okonomiyaki later but I really just want to stay home and make notes on educational theorists in my pretty new notebook.

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Maths Locke @mathsmuse.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Reminds me of my yr 9 German listening test that had the phrase "meine Leiblingsesse ist Fleisch."

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CantabKitty @cantabkitty.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

My new retort to kids saying "why should I learn how to code this when AI could do it for me?" Well _I_ could code it for you, what would be the point of that? Your mum could code it. The point is for YOU to learn something new.

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Dan Lewis @4301maths.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Some best-buy questions coming up for Year 8 next week. #ukmathsteachers #mathsteachers #mathstoday

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Maths Locke @mathsmuse.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I think a) if you say it enough times @themathsbazaar.bsky.social appears and links it and B) maybe on the stem hub? I have the PDFs and downloaded

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Maths Locke @mathsmuse.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

In #MathsToday yr 10 learned about finding 5% of amounts. Slowly slowly. Their weak numeracy makes it harder but we are getting there. One student can half things really well now, thanks to the springboard 7 materials so I need to use them more!

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JustMaths Mel @justmaths.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I’ve now read all of Pearsons maths GCSE examiners reports … summaries for each can be found here … AQAs will go up on the weekend. If anyone would like to send me @OCR_Maths (I’ve had no response to my email!) I’ll read that sh1t to for ya 🤣 justmaths.co.uk/index-i-read...

justmaths.co.uk

INDEX: I read the sh1t so you don't have to - justmaths

Reading all the maths related stuff so you dont have to

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Maths Locke @mathsmuse.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Nope. Found the martini intact after cat threw up. Poor little guy, he was not happy.

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Maths Locke @mathsmuse.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Arrived home to the cat throwing up but also my aunt sent me a bottle of hotel chocolat espresso martini. Overall a win?

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Maths Locke @mathsmuse.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Big thanks to mathsbot as the star of yesterday's open evening with Find the Prime. We got the head teacher to set a score and then invited children to beat it. Very busy night as children refused to leave, wanting one more try to see if they could beat him.

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Maths Locke @mathsmuse.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Happy birthday to her! 18 is a great birthday.

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Maths Locke @mathsmuse.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Woke up to discover chocolate chip pancake batter ready to be cooked for me into birthday pancakes. Top tier partnering.

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Maths Locke @mathsmuse.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Brought my label maker into work and all the calculators are labelled now. My team all have "Best team" labels too.

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Maths Locke @mathsmuse.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

You all convinced me. Cultpen order in. A4+ dusty rose Leuchtturm, plain paper. Fancy highlighters, including metallic ones. And the newly released cherry blossom TWSBI fountain pen because it was right there.

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Maths Locke @mathsmuse.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Discovered this morning that DumbCat is scared of my phone. He hopped up onto my bed to scream for breakfast then did a double take and back away upon seeing my phone resting on the bed. I then sneezed, which he is also scared of, so he fled.

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Maths Locke @mathsmuse.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I had my evil a level class manage to convince a non maths 6th former friend of theirs to come up and ask me if he was "1 over cos c". He nearly murdered them when they told him what it meant.

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Maths Locke @mathsmuse.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Had a great lesson #MathsToday with yr 11 doing algebra with angles. Good way to recap angle topic without feeling like a slog at the start.

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Maths Locke @mathsmuse.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Working with a trainee psychology teacher and horrified to find the resources she was left, that have been in use for 5+ yrs are basically just "copy loads of text for 40 minutes then do an exam question" Helped her fix them Friday and she says today's lesson actually worked with her class.

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Maths Locke @mathsmuse.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

So far, identified key areas and low workload for me. It may not pan out but we shall see.

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Maths Locke @mathsmuse.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

The goal is to find and fix early on any issues.

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Maths Locke @mathsmuse.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

In #MathsToday #ALevelMaths I'm trialling a new HW approach with yr 12. HW is to be prepared to get 100% knowledge on a 15 minute test of the week's content. They do it, peer mark with exam mark schemes. I check and set detentions/interventions for those that do not get that point.

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Maths Locke @mathsmuse.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Trying to decide if I need a new leuchtturm and paper mate flair pens so I can map out my theoretical framework. I have a tablet and one note and Note In. I have an A4 filofax clip book. But do I want pretty colours and nice paper?

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Maths Locke @mathsmuse.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Gutted to find out the £6250 complete CGP is sold out. I had one of the tote bags, actually. They sent it as bonus merch with a big order for year 11.

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Maths Locke @mathsmuse.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

That feeling when you find a theorist who neatly ties together your research question. I have a rabbit hole to dive down. #EdD #Bandura

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Maths Locke @mathsmuse.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

As I'm updating my notes so they're all on Notion (easily sortable into groups and viewable on phone), I find that past me just ignored the methods of each paper I read, so I have to partially re-read each one. EdD is sometimes a journey of screaming "WHY" at past me.

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Maths Locke @mathsmuse.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

In #MathsToday yr 10 got to grips with % of an amount without a calculator. Weirdly, doing it calculator first and then non calc actually seemed to help their fluency. I think it helped them get a sense of what the answer might be so they had more confidence with their numeracy.

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Maths Locke @mathsmuse.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I am very happy to shell out for these if they're good. They're for us for marking with so the money's well spent.

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Maths Locke @mathsmuse.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Does anyone have a good source of purple pens? The ones we get at work are... Bad. I want to buy in nice ones for my dept but the good pens only seem to come on red and green which we don't use.

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Maths Locke @mathsmuse.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

In #MathsToday I did regions and inequalities with yr 11. I spent a lot of time making them focus on drawing the lines and reminding them that the region is the last step so don't worry about it until you get there. Moderate success. Also set Seneca HW for them for the first time today.

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Maths Locke @mathsmuse.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

In #MathsToday I did % change with yr 10 and wondered why we call it reverse percentages and teach it as a topic but other inverses don't get that treatment. No "Reverse Area" or anything. I had 5/10 students in so we had a great time, got loads done.

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Maths Locke @mathsmuse.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

I did make lemon drizzle cupcakes though.

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Matt Woodfine @matttheapp.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

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Maths Locke @mathsmuse.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

I set aside time today to sort out my EdD readings for the year (for my modules) and to garden. Blackboard has not been updated to this academic year yet. It is raining and will continue to do so through the day. I guess I just have a day off then.

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