Nicola Waddilove @mathspadnicola.bsky.social · 26/02/2026This week I was explaining to students about the invisible 2 when we write square root, and they asked me if we could have a '1st' square root. I loved this question - and that i'd never considered it before #mathstoday 240
Reposted by Nicola WaddiloveLaura @mathsteacher09.bsky.social · 04/09/2025I hate to sound like a broken record but I LOVE @mathspadnicola.bsky.social @mathspadjames.bsky.social!!! Mathspad makes children of all abilities THINK HARD. 011
Reposted by Nicola WaddiloveJonathan Hall @studymaths.bsky.social · 24/05/2025How often do we talk about functions having useful outputs? It's easy to "teach" functions without actually teaching what a function is for. This task might help. 0214
Nicola Waddilove @mathspadnicola.bsky.social · 31/03/2025Hi Bluesky, We are getting a lot of emails at the moment from teachers who are looking for schools that are using MathsPad as their curriculum/SOW. If you are one of these schools and would like to connect with others, please can you reply to this post so I can point people your way. Thank you! 020
Nicola Waddilove @mathspadnicola.bsky.social · 05/03/2025My #MathsConf37 workshop choices: 1 - Rebecca Sanders 2 - @justmaths.bsky.social 3 - Amy How 4 - @teachsolutions.bsky.social 5 - @amercermaths.bsky.social Join me with @lasalleed.bsky.social, get your ticket here: completemaths.com/community/mathsconf37completemaths.comComplete Mathematics - MathsConf37Mathematics tuition for primary, secondary and FE. Home schooling. Math improvement. 021
Reposted by Nicola WaddiloveCatriona Agg @catrionaagg.bsky.social · 28/02/2025I used to encourage students to highlight F or Z shapes for parallel lines questions, but today I just told Y9 to highlight the transversal. It’s an easier first step, and they were almost always then able to immediately see what to do next. Also, I love these MathsPad questions! #MathsToday 56015
Reposted by Nicola WaddiloveRufus @rufuswilliam.bsky.social · 22/02/2025I like these conversations. The biggest question I always have about maths is: why is differentiation so convenient??! And how does integration actually work. And why are they inverses? I need a short, lucid book to read about this if you know any? 141
Reposted by Nicola WaddiloveJo Morgan @mathsjem.bsky.social · 20/02/2025New! My 186th gems post. Ideas, resources and updates for maths teachers. 💎 www.resourceaholic.com/2025/02/5-ma... #ukmathschat #mathstoday #iteachmath 05826
Reposted by Nicola WaddiloveMrs P ♥️ maths @mrs-p-maths.bsky.social · 04/02/2025In #MathsToday had some lovely discussion work using this T or F mathspad resource about using products of primes which also lead into discussing how to determine if a number is square using it's product of primes. Finished with working out as many number facts about 2025 as we could #iteachmaths 151
Reposted by Nicola WaddiloveJames Pearce @mathspadjames.bsky.social · 03/01/2025Some of our new Rounding with Significant Figures: Arrange the Digits Puzzles - some nice reasoning required! Full MathsPad January 2025 update: www.mathspad.co.uk 0166
Reposted by Nicola WaddiloveJo Morgan @mathsjem.bsky.social · 02/01/2025New! My 184th gems post. Ideas, updates and resources for maths teachers. 💎 www.resourceaholic.com/2025/01/5-ma... #UKMathsChat #MathsToday 58628
Reposted by Nicola WaddiloveMatt Enlow @unsolvedmre.bsky.social · 24/11/2024A classic #math #puzzle #iTeachMath 87324
Reposted by Nicola WaddiloveJonathan Hall @studymaths.bsky.social · 19/11/2024In #MathsToday I used this card sort with a small group of pupils. Worked out surprisingly well and a couple of them even managed to fill in all the missing values. 4508
Reposted by Nicola WaddiloveJo Morgan @mathsjem.bsky.social · 31/10/2024New! A quick gems post - ideas, resources and updates for maths teachers. 💎 www.resourceaholic.com/2024/10/5-ma... #UKMathsChat 03814
Reposted by Nicola WaddiloveNathan Day @nathanday.bsky.social · 17/10/2024In #MathsToday, part c of this question caught everybody out, and not for the reason I was intending when I wrote it! (The time when answering the question was about 3pm.) 3104
Reposted by Nicola WaddiloveEd Southall @edsouthall.bsky.social · 01/09/2024“Factor” in maths and “Factory” in not maths have the same root etymologically. In essence they both refer to components that build towards something else. Here ends today’s reading. 3379
Reposted by Nicola WaddiloveMrs Ware @mrswaremaths.bsky.social · 07/09/2024I tried a new first lesson meet & greet this year. I put numbered mats on each desk, and at the threshold I I directed st’s to their correct seat, ie “hello James, you’re going front row, number 7”. This worked better than any system I’ve tried in 7 years of teaching. 👍 #Edusky 241
Nicola Waddilove @mathspadnicola.bsky.social · 05/09/2024I decided to start the probability scale this year with questions like 'if the event is unlikely, what could its probability be as a fraction?'. I think it revealed a lot about their knowledge of FDP and helped solidify the scale as going from 0 to 1. I followed it with: 0155
Nicola Waddilove @mathspadnicola.bsky.social · 31/08/2024It always puzzled me at school what happens when you press the sin cos and tan buttons on a calculator. I think this video about the beautiful sine wave is incredible - if you are interested in the history of trigonometry this is really worth a watch: www.gresham.ac.uk/watch-now/si...gresham.ac.ukThe Incredible Sine Wave and its Uses | Gresham CollegeThe beautiful sine wave turns out to have a huge number of practical applications, from the motion of springs, to waves in the sea, to sound waves, light waves and more. It is curious that the functio... 130
