@brucegraymaths.bsky.social
"Why are you grinding your teeth Mr Gray". Maths teacher in Aberdeen, Scotland. Was BucksburnMaths on the hellscape formerly known as Twitter. Mostly posting about teaching but occasionally other stuff.
Reading up on a bit of local history.
22.02.2025 12:47 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
As expected my first year class did a grand job constructing pie charts. 😁😁😁
14.02.2025 16:17 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Selection of first year pie charts from last week. Constructing with protractors next so hoping they'll make as good a job with those.
12.02.2025 07:40 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Spectra light festival 2025. Great displays and fantastic to see the city centre busy with families.
08.02.2025 19:50 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
I'm as surprised as anyone that I've made it a whole week following my self imposed "tidy workspace" policy!
07.02.2025 15:56 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Line graphs with first years. Again, some real pride being taken with their work. Most of the kids made a good job of sketching out their own axes.
#MathsToday
Encouraged pupils to take a tabular approach to some of the more number crunchingly heavy silver 🥈 and gold 🥇 problems. Seemed to work well for some and helped them avoid calculation errors. Photos here highlighting the manky state of my pen board 😬😬😬
04.02.2025 20:19 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Sequence work with my second year class this afternoon. Mr Carter Maths website providing loads of opportunities for all pupils to work at their level. One pupil was particularly pleased they managed the negative heavy Bronze Q8 #MathsToday @mrcartermaths.bsky.social
04.02.2025 20:11 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0
Lovely bar graphs from my first year class. Taking real pride in their work.
03.02.2025 16:59 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0May be a daft question but, in the football league task does X have have different value for each team?
02.02.2025 07:53 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Yeah, deleted my personal Twitter and left my work one inactive (keeping it as an archive of useful links). Going to give this a try as a mix of work and personal.
02.02.2025 07:50 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Because the kids love 14th century manuscript skull doodles. Stumbled across r/medievalcreatures on Reddit and decided to print up a couple of the guys I saw there. Got child number two to do some doodling on some paper and that resulted in some nice prints.
01.02.2025 19:29 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Calculator percentages using decimal multipliers rather than divide by 100 then multiply by X. Way more efficient when you increase the complexity of the problems. Real clear progression from third level BGE to N5 demonstrated in one lesson.
31.01.2025 08:40 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
