Jemma Sherwood

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I have a new article out in the Chartered College of Teaching journal Impact, called ‘Embedding AI in education: A critique’. Here I make five main points, which I will helpfully plop in this thread for those without access or time to read it.

A diagram of a right triangle with legs of 7 and 24 and a hypotenuse of 25.

Happy Pythagorean Triple Day to all who celebrate!

Summer holidays means an excellent opportunity to do some reading. What books is everyone looking forward to reading over the summer?
(Both non-education and education suggestions welcome)

NEW BLOG: The Seduction of Destruction

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New post! 'Conferences and Catching Up'.

A write up of the events I've attended in the last couple of weeks and a summary of the current talking points in maths education.

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#ukmathschat #mathstoday #meiconf2025

The Sun post on Instagram of a Wizzair plane coming in for a landing over water with the caption "Aeroplane makes extremely low landing at Greece airport." Mike comments: "pilot of 60 years experience here. typically all landings are extremely low. I tried to do one really high up once but it didn't work"

Teachers - did you know about I'm a Mathematician/I'm a Scientist? You can book a free online chat with your class and a real life mathematician, statistician, or scientist to ask them all about their job and career. Bookings here: imamathematician.uk/book-activity/

Oooh, bit late, but #fridayfive (almost).
1. Pulp, Common People (1997, NEC)
2. Prodigy, Firestarter (Oasis at Knebworth, 1996)
3. Foo Fighters, My Hero (Aston Villa, 2024)
4. Queen, Radio Gaga (Live Aid)
5. Elton John, Glastonbury (2023) (This one crept in bc it made me appreciate his genius).

These are some superb choices.

📢 Exciting News! 🎉

We're thrilled to announce that we will be joining together with other respected mathematics associations to form AMiE (Association for Mathematics in Education).

More information about our transition to AMiE can be found here: buff.ly/6xfmVDv

#mathstoday used this completion table to see different ways for substitution

Really enjoyed yesterday’s #mathsconf38 - from quickly calculating dates in a different century to the most gorgeous surd questions, I’ve had lots to think about!
Best of all, it was great to see everyone - especially at an Ormiston School 💕.

Always love a MathsConf and #MathsConf38 did not disappoint! Nice to see lots of friendly faces and as always the workshops I attended were brilliant. Thank you to @jemmaths.bsky.social, @blatherwicksam.bsky.social, @taylorda01.bsky.social and @mathsjem.bsky.social for all the ideas...

After lunch at #mathsconf38 with @emmaemma53.bsky.social doing fractions

First up at #mathsconf38 it's @jemmaths.bsky.social banishing bidmas ✨️

And finally, applying maths into contexts. Pupils’ final grade comes from all four criteria.

Then “communicating maths” - pupils get grades for *how* clearly they communicate their mathematics.

No external exam, so assessment come from knowledge tests, coursework-style investigations (anyone remember T-totals?) for pattern-spotting and generalisation.

Session 3 is Paul Rodrigo on what he’s learnt about assessment from teaching the Middle Years Programme in Sweden.

Function notation for communicating transformations. “What’s the effect on the coordinate?”

Drawing attention to invariance and transformation before the extra load of ‘what does this look like algebraically?’

Introducing transforming graphs without algebra, just to focus on coordinates and shape.

Session 2 at #mathsconf38 and it’s @blatherwicksam.bsky.social on transforming graphs. Starting off with a great exercise going back and forth on linear graphs.

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From a purely language perspective, 1, -1, 1, -1 doesn’t “feel” like it diverges, so I want non-convergent and divergent to be different. Just like negative and non-positive are different.

It feels like divergent and non-convergent should/could be different, but are you telling us they’re probably not?

Can’t wait for Saturday. Not too late to snap up a ticket if you want to come for a day of the best maths PD and community you’ll have in ages…

That’s so exciting to hear!

Light bulb moment when looking at OATMaths resouces on solving simultaneous equations by elimination - using zero pairs/identical pairs to decide if you add or subtract - makes so much sense! Used that language with Y10 & they picked it up so quickly. Thanks @jemmaths.bsky.social & team #mathstoday

My #MathsConf38 workshop choices:

1 - @krisboulton.bsky.social & Lee Wheeler
2 - Greg Thomas & Anna Berry
3 - @mr-man-maths.bsky.social
4 - @mathsjem.bsky.social
5 - @jemmaths.bsky.social

Break times will be spent with discerning attendees who are keen to know more about problem-solving.