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Jonathan Hall @studymaths.bsky.social · 11h

A sequences begins: 4, 6, 10, 16, ... Is it a quadratic or Fibonacci style sequence? Is it possible to be given five (or more) terms of a sequence and still be undecided?

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Miss Morris @morrismaths359.bsky.social · 5h

#Mathstoday Year 8 have started looking at estimation today. They have 10 seconds to give a good estimation of this on their whiteboard. Made via Mathsbot

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Miss Morris @morrismaths359.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

#Mathstoday Yr11 started looking at the area of similar shapes today. Next lesson volume

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Jonathan Hall @studymaths.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Which led nicely into a discussion with this slide. The algebraic nth term rule at the bottom was initially hidden from view. #MathsToday

The first 5 terms of n^2 + 2n + 3 represented with Dienes blocks.

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Miss Morris @morrismaths359.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

#Mathatoday Year 9 practiced their division today, after realising they were really quite weak instead of moving on we practiced with these. Students cover the question with the answers (I have an answer sheet) and it's quite easy to check.

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Miss Morris @morrismaths359.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Absolutely shattered. Super fun Yr7 trip today. Got to go rock climbing and do Archery. The only maths today was scoring for the archery (well apart from all the planning I'm now doing)

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Miss Morris @morrismaths359.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

#Mathstoday One of the things I find is in the lesson students can factorise. As soon as you mix up the questions they can't do it. Got my Yr10 to have a go at these and it was unsurprisingly how much slower they were.

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Segar Rogers @segarrogers.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

An Old Akkadian school text problem; only 4000 years old. I think they were interested in how to partition non-rectangular fields for inheritance purposes ... so for 2 brothers say, in the case of this problem. #UKMathsChat #iTeachMath

Old Akkadian school text IM 58045 showing a trapezium partitioned into two equal areas. The parallel sides of the trapezium are 17 and 7 units and the perpendicular distance between these sides is 12 units. The partition is made parallel to the sides of 17 and 7 units. Find the length of the partition line and its distance from the side of 17 units.

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Miss Morris @morrismaths359.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

#Mathstoday My intervention group had a go at the Doughnut Percents Nrich task. Matching up fraction decimals and percentages nrich.maths.org/problems/dou...

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Doughnut Percents | NRICH

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Miss Morris @morrismaths359.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

#Mathstoday 2/4 lessons were tests today. Yr10 had a go at some quite complicated factorising single brackets If anyone has some nice factorising problems I'd love to have them. They are a very strong group.

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Miss Morris @morrismaths359.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

#Mathstoday 2/5 lessons have been tests today. The rest a mixture of revision and checking understanding of adding and subtracting decimals.

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Miss Morris @morrismaths359.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

#Mathstoday Yr11 had a go at the mix volume and surface area of prisms sheet from Dr Austin. So many times the student was stuck just because they didn't read the question and was trying to find the surface area on a volume question. www.draustinmaths.com/_files/ugd/7...

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Miss Morris @morrismaths359.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

#Mathstoday Yr 8 had a go at finding fractions of amounts and whole amounts given fractions. I can drag the bar models on the right to do any question I want if they need more or less support.

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Miss Morris @morrismaths359.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

#Mathstoday Yr10 blew me away on how good they were at expanding and simplifying multiple single brackets so had to quickly get this sheet ready for them to have a go at. www.tes.com/teaching-res...

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Miss Morris @morrismaths359.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

#Mathtoday Open evening tonight, which was me playing countdown for over an hour. I'm much better than I remember.

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Miss Morris @morrismaths359.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

#Mathstoday Yr8 have been showing really good skill with fractions so got them adding mixed numbers. Yr9 also had a pretty good lesson with finding 10/100 more and 10/100 less.

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Miss Morris @morrismaths359.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

#Mathstoday My yr10s had a go at a Don Steward task, directed numbers magic squares. All diagonals, rows and coloums need to sum to the same amount. donsteward.blogspot.com/2013/11/dire...

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Miss Morris @morrismaths359.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

#Mathstoday Yr 11 had a go at finding the angles of sectors given their area or arcs today. While Yr 10 did LCM and HCF using prime factorisation.

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Jonathan Hall @studymaths.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

I was reminded of this task by @morrismaths359.bsky.social earlier this week. It's one of my favourites, so I've recorded a quick video to demonstrate how you can model a solution using prime factor tiles. Video in the next post...but first here's the task.

2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10

Fill the blanks with the numbers above to make the calculation correct. One number is not used.

__ × __ × __ × __ = __ × __ × __ × __

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Miss Morris @morrismaths359.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

#Mathstoday Year 8 really surprised me with how good they were at equivalent fractions and simplifying fractions today. Absolutely wizzed through it. Onto adding and subtracting fractions with different denominators next. (With mixed numbers too!)

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Miss Morris @morrismaths359.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

#Mathstoday In between the fire alarm drill my year 10 played Prime Factory. The highest score in the class was 175. No calculators allowed! No time limits.

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Dale Chapman @dalechapman.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

In #MathsToday - Pie charts! Love this as a starting point for pie charts. Why can you work out what flag they are? Because of your ability to reason with proportion. You could make your own version of this using this flags tool shaheeilyas.com/flags/

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Miss Morris @morrismaths359.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

#Mathstoday Yr8 did some practice with division. They had some extra practice with the Nrich Dicey Operations. nrich.maths.org/games/dicey-...

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Miss Morris @morrismaths359.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

#Mathstoday Yr10 had a go at this lovely Mathsbot task today while Yr11 had a look at Cumulative frequency graphs.

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Miss Morris @morrismaths359.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

#Mathstoday Yr 10 had a go at some square and triangle number problem solving. (Yr 8 had a go last week but got longer to try)

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Nathan Day @nathanday.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

I'm going to try to do #MathsToday as consistently as possible this year (although I might struggle on days when I only teach Computer Science!). Today, in my first lesson with Y10, we did some of @dandraper.bsky.social's lovely significant figures tasks: mrdrapermaths.wordpress.com/2020/11/14/z...

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Zeros Are Nothing? Zeros Are Everything!

Rounding and Place Value Digit ProblemsDownload Rounding and Place Value Venn DiagramsDownload Open Middle Style Digit Venn Diagram ProblemsDownload Following on from my previous post about using d…

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Miss Morris @morrismaths359.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

#Mathstoday Year 10 looked at Surface Area today. Made them all draw the faces to make sure they include them all. Tried a harder question at the end, it seems like they do need a bit more practice on applying the skills.

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Miss Morris @morrismaths359.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

#Mathstoday Yr8 had a look at negative numbers. Yr10 did more box plot practice and started statistics with my new yr11 ELC group. Nothing of huge excitement but sometimes there isn't going to be.

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Amanda Austin @draustinmaths.com · 02/09/2026

It's back to school this week for many, so this is your annual reminder about draustinmaths.com. There are now over 1200 free maths resources, including over 100 resources for A-level Maths and Further Maths. And when you've exhausted all of those, there are a few paid-for resources too!

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Maths Teaching Resources | Dr Austin Maths

Dr Austin Maths is a free-to-use Maths teaching resources website, focussing on quality resources for KS4 IGCSE and GCSE Maths.

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Miss Morris @morrismaths359.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

#Mathstoday Year 10 had a go at these lovely hard questions on Sectors. www.tes.com/teaching-res... I picked which questions I wanted to challenge them (these are from different slides)

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Miss Morris @morrismaths359.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

#Mathstoday Year 8s had a bit of time at the end of the lesson so we played Find the Primes as a class on Mathsbot. Might see if I can use the computers next week to play it individually.

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Miss Morris @morrismaths359.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

#Mathstoday Got to play the Nrich factors and multiples game with my year 8 today. They really enjoyed it and was really quite good practice. nrich.maths.org/games/factor...

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Factors and Multiples Game | NRICH

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Miss Morris @morrismaths359.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

#Mathstoday (well yesterday but I was tired) I have a year 10 set 1 this year so I get to use my challenging resources a bit more. Top needs Pythagoras, the bottom needs trigonometry. Not new! I believe I shared these last year too.

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Miss Morris @morrismaths359.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

#Mathstoday First day back with the students! First lesson I didn't want to carry on the ELC straight away so my new group to have a go at the Nrich planning a school trip task (primary task) Gave a really good idea on a lot of skills that are within the ELC Didn't do the letter only found the info

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Miss Morris @morrismaths359.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Students are back to school on Monday (Yes I know it's early). I'm a year 7 form tutor this year so it's going to be a very busy day. Classroom is all set up but I wouldn't say I'm all ready to go yet!

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CantabKitty @cantabkitty.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

hey, did we know that Dr Austin has a set of paid-for resources? Revision packs, and licenses are both reasonably priced AND half off at the moment!! #notsponsored www.draustinmaths.com/category/pre...

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PREMIUM | Dr Austin Maths

A selection of paid-for revision workbooks perfect for honing skills and identifying gaps in the run up to the exam season.

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Miss Morris @morrismaths359.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

I've had these posters in 3 different classrooms across 2 different schools over 4 years. This year 3 have been damaged.... They have the glossy finish otherwise I'd just print out new ones. Such a shame, hopefully they last until we get our new maths building (hopefully in a year)

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Jo Morgan @mathsjem.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

New! My 200th gems post. Ideas, updates and resources for maths teachers. 💎 www.resourceaholic.com/2026/07/5-ma... #mathstoday #ukmathschat #alevelmaths

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Kathryn Clark @arithmaticks.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

With Paper 3 around the corner, I just want to say a massive thank you to all of you that spend time analysing data, make us wonderful practice sets and collating it all to use with our classes. 🩷🙌 You guys are absolutley mint. And the last few weeks would be so much harder without you all!

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Miss Morris @morrismaths359.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

I got a lovely card and yellow plush (because I wear a yellow jumper most days) from my year 11s today. I'm really going to miss this group, been a lot of fun teaching them these past 2 years.

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Jonathan Hall @studymaths.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

MathsBot just turned 13 years old. How time flies.

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Nathan Day @nathanday.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

Here's something I've been working quite hard on recently: classduels.com/maths/ A Maths game featuring: - two-player (split screen, can be done on a interactive whiteboard) and single-player modes - 50+ topics across KS3-KS5 - a version for the Australian curriculum: classduels.com/maths/au/ 😉

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Maths Revision Quizzes | Class Duels

Practise maths with free Class Duels revision quizzes for KS3, GCSE and A Level, covering Negatives, Rounding, Fractions, Percentages and more.

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Miss Morris @morrismaths359.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

#Mathstoday Year 11 said their exam was nice (not easy but nice) (AQA) obviously don't get to see it yet but really want to. All calculator practice from here on out.

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Miss Morris @morrismaths359.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

#Mathstoday Year 10 are solving quadratics using factorising, (coefficient of X^2 = 1) decided since my year 11 group really struggled with sketching quadratics we would start right there on sketching them (and making sure they are symmetrical! Not minimum point always on y axis!)

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Miss Morris @morrismaths359.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

My year 11 form group opened their time capsule today. The first thing in there was a photo of them all from year 7! They really have grown up. I only started with them in year 9 but has been lovely to see them grow up.

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Miss Morris @morrismaths359.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

How many yellow jumpers are too many yellow jumpers to own?

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Miss Morris @morrismaths359.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

First taste of summer weather today in the classroom. Period 5 ended at 26.5 degrees.

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Jenny Cains @jennycains.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

In #mathstoday I rolled out this classic SMILE activity in my Year 7 Maths lesson. Worked really well, although it never ceases to amaze me how slow some kids are at cutting out ✂️ 😴

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Charlotte McFarlan @charlottemaths.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

The thing I feel most strongly about setting is that if you’re setting, you should put strong teachers on your lowest-attaining sets. Unfortunately in my current role, I see trainees/ECTs are still being given loads of bottom sets 😔 #MathsToday

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