mathsteacherkyp.bsky.social @mathsteacherkyp.bsky.social · 12/10/2026Shout out for GeoGebra, which does give you the choice! Maybe thanks to @mikegeogebra.bsky.social who's an English maths teacher. 130
mathsteacherkyp.bsky.social @mathsteacherkyp.bsky.social · 29/09/2026I still have the digital folders for all my OFSTED lessons - it was a bit like PGCE, with full lesson plans for every lesson 'just in case', all resources etc, like interview lessons. But that was all before 2015 - I somehow managed to avoid OFSTED after that. 011
mathsteacherkyp.bsky.social @mathsteacherkyp.bsky.social · 22/09/2026This is for England. Scotland counts as a different country for PISA. (Not sure offhand about Wales & NI) 000
mathsteacherkyp.bsky.social @mathsteacherkyp.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Are they coming from a uni PGCE course? At KCL the use of AI is discussed, urging caution, but not banned. Unlikely that my sessions will include more than a passing reference - I'm too sceptical. 101
mathsteacherkyp.bsky.social @mathsteacherkyp.bsky.social · 16/09/2026I'm sure I wrote this! Sounds so familiar - and I haven't taught in school for 5 years now! 000
mathsteacherkyp.bsky.social @mathsteacherkyp.bsky.social · 14/09/2026Awesome Investigations! @profsmudge.bsky.social 010
mathsteacherkyp.bsky.social @mathsteacherkyp.bsky.social · 14/09/2026Almost used that with my PGCE students today (reasoning and proof) but used some GAIM investigations instead. 110
mathsteacherkyp.bsky.social @mathsteacherkyp.bsky.social · 12/09/2026I love this - however half a class of AL Further Mathematicians walked out on me once after I tried to get them to do this with exam questions; they insisted they just wanted to do past papers! Those who stayed generally did better in the exams ... 040
mathsteacherkyp.bsky.social @mathsteacherkyp.bsky.social · 11/09/2026Id love to have access to these again - but I'm retired! Great support for AL FM. Do pass details on to those still at the maths 'chalk face'! 000
mathsteacherkyp.bsky.social @mathsteacherkyp.bsky.social · 09/09/2026I'll take it back to my new PGCE students! 110
mathsteacherkyp.bsky.social @mathsteacherkyp.bsky.social · 09/09/2026In a little museum in Aguïmes, Gran Canaria and spotted some images of measurement from some centuries ago. 132
mathsteacherkyp.bsky.social @mathsteacherkyp.bsky.social · 04/09/2026Same here, same year. (I still have my exam papers!) 010
mathsteacherkyp.bsky.social @mathsteacherkyp.bsky.social · 01/09/2026@drhadwen-bennett.bsky.social this looks fun for M&C! 120
mathsteacherkyp.bsky.social @mathsteacherkyp.bsky.social · 29/08/2026Excellent livestream from @momath.bsky.social 000
mathsteacherkyp.bsky.social @mathsteacherkyp.bsky.social · 28/08/2026Grateful for my insomnia (it's 5am in the UK) and also for a west facing bedroom window in a relatively low light area. It's awesome! 000
mathsteacherkyp.bsky.social @mathsteacherkyp.bsky.social · 28/08/2026I would love to have visited Mathemalchemy (mathemalchemy.org) IRL. But Papert's Mindstorms inspired me as I started on my Maths Ed journey nearly 40 years ago, and I am thrilled to have been able to talk with Cynthia Solomon, who was alongside him in the early days of LOGO.mathemalchemy.orgHome - MathemalchemyDiscover Mathemalchemy, the collaborative art installation celebrating the creativity and beauty of mathematics. 120
mathsteacherkyp.bsky.social @mathsteacherkyp.bsky.social · 28/08/2026The Textile Museum in Tilburg (Netherlands) would be right up your street. A vast display of looms, including some from Manchester, which is where my grandparents worked in the cotton mills, and Jacquard looms. And so much more! textielmuseum.nl/entextielmuseum.nlMuseum for textile, design and art in Tilburg - TextielMuseumWelcome to TextielMuseum, a museum in Tilburg in the Netherlands with inspiring exhibitions for everyone. Discover the unique world of textiles! 020
mathsteacherkyp.bsky.social @mathsteacherkyp.bsky.social · 22/08/2026That's added another daily puzzle to my list! When will I get the housework done? 000
mathsteacherkyp.bsky.social @mathsteacherkyp.bsky.social · 20/08/2026At least you didn't have to wait a whole week until you got your deck of punched cards back, and blank printout of the result of your programme, like 'back in the day'! 000
mathsteacherkyp.bsky.social @mathsteacherkyp.bsky.social · 18/08/2026I'm more concerned it makes my OL grades 1-3 look dismal! 010
mathsteacherkyp.bsky.social @mathsteacherkyp.bsky.social · 18/08/2026One day the handle on my classroom door failed - leaving me, the teacher, locked in with 32 year 7s! 010
mathsteacherkyp.bsky.social @mathsteacherkyp.bsky.social · 18/08/2026Happy birthday!🎉🎈🎂 Have been following you on sm for forever - maybe Hitomezashi during lockdown. But your in person workshop at @mathsworld.com was even more insightful! 000
mathsteacherkyp.bsky.social @mathsteacherkyp.bsky.social · 12/08/2026I think it's working (Essex)! But may have to walk round the corner to the top of the hill, as the sun goes behind the houses opposite! 010
mathsteacherkyp.bsky.social @mathsteacherkyp.bsky.social · 07/08/2026Check for 'fluff' and other debris around the bobbin area. @megjlow.bsky.social is an expert on fixing sewing machines! 110
mathsteacherkyp.bsky.social @mathsteacherkyp.bsky.social · 06/08/2026This: @charlottemaths.bsky.social 010
mathsteacherkyp.bsky.social @mathsteacherkyp.bsky.social · 06/08/2026Take the AMSP courses - they are brilliant! (and free if you're in a state school, I believe.) 070
mathsteacherkyp.bsky.social @mathsteacherkyp.bsky.social · 04/08/2026If you're asking about parallel lines and angles, used them and Pythagoras to prove that our garden room would not fit on the imperfect 'rectangular' base done by some cowboy builders. Lost money, as we had to get it redone. 001
mathsteacherkyp.bsky.social @mathsteacherkyp.bsky.social · 04/08/2026Ditto (TOA) to calculate the pitch of my roof. Got a new roof paid for by the surveyors who failed to spot that it was leaking because a low pitch needs special tiles, specially laid! 030
mathsteacherkyp.bsky.social @mathsteacherkyp.bsky.social · 04/08/2026But it's much nicer to decorate your own bobbins with beads! I come from Bedford, and my sister used to make Bedfordshire lace. The WIP was as attractive as the finished object! 110
mathsteacherkyp.bsky.social @mathsteacherkyp.bsky.social · 24/07/2026Same here! But TV lacking the atmosphere of the RAH, or the Rainbow, or Knebworth in my younger years!! 020
mathsteacherkyp.bsky.social @mathsteacherkyp.bsky.social · 22/07/2026Counted the sections on a semicircular vault in St Paul's Cathedral - there were 11. Maths in action! Should have paced out the width/diameter. 010
mathsteacherkyp.bsky.social @mathsteacherkyp.bsky.social · 11/07/2026Perhaps I'm a bit more advanced than a beginner then! But I don't have the confidence to quit 'Learner'! 010
mathsteacherkyp.bsky.social @mathsteacherkyp.bsky.social · 11/07/2026You can use the 'Learn' mode, and check partial solutions as you go. 110
mathsteacherkyp.bsky.social @mathsteacherkyp.bsky.social · 11/07/2026Can't face getting rid of mine, even though I'm retired! Also, Bourne & Hollingsworth, Porter, Quadling & Ramsey from my own AL days ... 030
mathsteacherkyp.bsky.social @mathsteacherkyp.bsky.social · 09/07/2026Prior to that, at SFC, in general one teacher per class, but some split to suit timetabling needs. Get to know classes well, but tough if there are teacher/student personality clashes. With split classes, can pair experienced and less experienced teachers. 130
mathsteacherkyp.bsky.social @mathsteacherkyp.bsky.social · 09/07/2026My last school, before retirement, split between 2 teachers, pure + mech, pure + stats. Sandwiched applic. between pure, so final pure topics were shared flexibly as necessary. Always things like bank holiday Mondays affecting no. of lessons for each teacher. 1/2 110
mathsteacherkyp.bsky.social @mathsteacherkyp.bsky.social · 09/07/2026*Correction - I did my ALs in 1974, but also OL German, in which I got a Grade 2. The Internet states all OLs were given letter grades from 1975 onwards. Feel free to argue with AQA. 000
mathsteacherkyp.bsky.social @mathsteacherkyp.bsky.social · 09/07/2026Unless they changed the grading system the year after I took my Cambridge exam board OLs, they were graded 1 (top) to 9. (I am 70 and did my OLs in 1974.) So you could get a grade 5/6, albeit not GCSE. 100
mathsteacherkyp.bsky.social @mathsteacherkyp.bsky.social · 08/07/2026Francis Su, in Mathematics for Human Flourishing apparently said somethings similar, (Gemini) or John Hough (copilot), but no direct reference found! 100
mathsteacherkyp.bsky.social @mathsteacherkyp.bsky.social · 04/07/2026I used to cycle to the library in town and spend all Saturday morning there, on my own, when I was 10. 000
mathsteacherkyp.bsky.social @mathsteacherkyp.bsky.social · 30/06/2026Just as I liked your photo, a cabbage white fluttered past me. Nothing unusual about that - except I'm on a Jubilee line train in east London! 000
mathsteacherkyp.bsky.social @mathsteacherkyp.bsky.social · 29/06/2026I'm not sure about devolution to the lunatic right in power here in the east of England. Optimism tempered with reality ... 010
mathsteacherkyp.bsky.social @mathsteacherkyp.bsky.social · 24/06/2026But have they installed anti-drone weapons inside?? 120
mathsteacherkyp.bsky.social @mathsteacherkyp.bsky.social · 23/06/2026Still rumbling on - or maybe back again - I went back to sleep! Sparrows undaunted now! 100
