Sharon Malley

In #MathsToday I did this as a starter on estimation.

With the aim of getting pupils to consider which counters are the 'significant' ones.

Tagging for myself to come back to. 😍

Love this post on the maths for calculating when Easter is. I’m always proud of myself for just knowing it’s the first Sunday after the first full moon after the spring equinox.

In #mathstoday, inspired by @colinfoster77.bsky.social’s Mathematical Etudes, we’ve been combining mathematical thinking and fluency practice 😁 lots of rich conversations all round. Not bad for the last day of a very long term! 😴

It was a privilege to keynote at #ACPConference25 with Maths Mastery and Ark Curriculum this afternoon.

In my 1 hour talk, I explored the difficulties that students have with problem solving - issues that we would also have... ⤵️⤵️

A completion table with two columns of expressions and two columns where the sum and product of the expressions are to be found.

In #MathsToday with Y11 I tried to draw attention to when you can and can't add terms together. Interleaving this with multiplying expressions, which can always be "done".

A natural extension would be to start giving sums and products and reversing the process...we didn't get that far though!

Here's the kicker: "when ants work in groups, their performances rise significantly. Groups of people do not show such improvement and, when their communication is restricted, even display deteriorated performances."

It's great that this paper includes movie clips of humans and ants in action!

Geometric pattern made from 36 overlapping circles

New blog post: 'Taxing Tasks with Turtles'. Looks at a selection of geometry problems and investigations that can be explored by using a small amount of coding.
#ukmathschat #EduSky

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Incredible film. It’s one I recommend a lot.

One of my favourite bits of #maths #history is, in 1557, Robert Recorde (🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿) gets so fed up repeating the same thing over and over again that, in order...

"to avoid the tediouse repetition of these woordes: is equalle to"

... he just gives up and invents the equals sign: =

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I felt incredibly protective of my 2nd son from the moment he was born but felt like I didn’t love him yet in the same way as I did my 1st because I didn’t ‘know’ him yet. Might be completely different for you but also might be worth knowing that it doesn’t last & I very quickly loved him for him.

Putting this on my must watch list.

Listening to some nineties Britpop in the car and I think I have found my teacher theme tune 🎶 “you don’t have to have the solutions, you have to understand the problem, and not go looking for a miracle”🎶. I’d like it to play, whenever I pressed a big red button on my desk.