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Couldn't resist picking up a second hand copy of Sea State after hearing it mentioned on the What page are you on podcast

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!

I'm trying to work out what percentage of students with a grade 2 at GCSE maths from school gain a grade 4 in FE

Anyone know where I can GCSE maths resit data for FE by previous grade? #FEmaths

Calling all Maths teachers!

What are some of your all-time great tasks for secondary Maths?

Ones that could have their place in any curriculum, one that should be studied in PGCE courses, ones that started whole new genres of tasks...
... or just ones you really like.

(see some of mine below)

I still like this old one - Durham maths mysteries particularly the directed numbers one www.lancashire.gov.uk/media/940356...

‘Significant disadvantage gap’ in GCSE resits revealed EPI calls for ‘targeted reforms’ to help students ‘who feel trapped on the resit treadmill’

🆕 Disadvantaged students fall behind by a fifth of a grade in English and one eighth of a grade in maths compared with their better-off peers when resitting GCSEs, new research shows feweek.co.uk/significant-...

Illustration of a large herd of cows. The text reads: A farmer counted 396 cows in his field. But when he rounded them up he had 400.

Have you had enough of our #MathsJokes yet? Well, sorry, we’re not done yet. Got to milk #InternationalJokeDay all we can. Speaking of milking, here’s a joke about cows…

#MathsWeekScot #MathsToday #UKMathsChat

Ooh good selection. North woods is a cracker. I'm starting the Cazalet chronicles, The Genius myth and an Elin Hilderbrand

Got my new timetable for next year already hurray. Two hours of GCSE resit, 15 minutes break, two hours of Functional Maths is going to require a good breakfast

I have yellow with purple ink. Ought to match really

Yes in bright yellow

A Mathematical Bridge: An Intuitive Journey in Higher Mathematics: Amazon.co.uk: Hewson, Stephen: 9789812834089: Books share.google/4vldNcn3K6KB...

Lovely time at #mathsconf38 My takeaways were definitely going to look into more about ratio tables. Loved using them for inverse proportion. Going to use more etymology. Also going to look into visualisers. (For future first timers you get free lunch and coffee)

What a title!

Which teacher planners do people recommend?

Wieringa’s Wall by Ross J Cocks This wall of 9595 tiles creates an architectural element that both aids in the aesthetics and acoustics of the room. It is a parameterized model of a corrugated surface proposed by RMA Wierings & described by NG de Bruijin in 1981. The computational model was constructed using the cut and project method. This uses a 5D lattice to produce the vertices of a 2D Penrose tiling, each vertex is labeled via their relationship to levels of the derived cutting window, which is a rhombic icosahedron. The vertices then emerge into the third dimension in an orderly fashion. The wall acts as an acoustic scattering surface, lowering the reverberation time of the room. The project was undertaken by Ross J Cocks as part of an undergraduate architectural thesis under mentorship of Nicholas Hoban who also generously provided the requisite digital fabrication machinery to accomplish the project. Completed June 20, 2023 with support from John H Daniel’s faculty of architecture, landscape and design

A view of the wall (only part of it) but zoomed out to show its aperiodic structure. It looks like a 3D variant of the aperiodic Penrose tiling, which is built out of a couple of kinds rhombus, which are then arranged into star shaped tessellates. The colors are white, a cool blue green and charcoal gray.

A close up centered on positive (ie out of the wall) star

A close up of negative star (ie into the wall)

I’m going to miss this wall a lot

Damn teaching my last evening class at the same time as the women's prize announcement. Will just have to wait two hours.

Besotted with this labyrinth locator:

labyrinthlocator.org

My #MathsConf38 workshop choices:

1 - @mrmetacognition.bsky.social
2 - @arithmaticks.bsky.social‬
3 - @taylorda01.bsky.social‬
4 - Jack Jennings
5 - @mrtaylormaths2.bsky.social‬

Join me with @lasalleed.bsky.social, get your ticket here: completemaths.com/community/mathsconf38

Feeling brave and signed up for my first #MathsConf38

First half term I'm not marking in nine years and this is the weather

Quick cryptic crossword No 59 Quick cryptic crossword No 59

New obsession of cryptic crosswords. If anyone else needs a gateway drug www.theguardian.com/crosswords/q...

My first ever English lesson went well. As a student left he said well that was lovely.

It's Autism Awareness Day, so let's take a look at this #FunctionalSkills Webinar from #Pearson on Supporting Learners with ASD.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=eNRT...

My fun weekend project was crafting these Easter Egg shikaku puzzles. Divide each egg into rectangles so each rectangle contains a single number that matches the area of the rectangle.

mathequalslove.net/easter-egg-s...

#mtbos #iteachmath #puzzlingclassroom #mathsky #edusky

If you haven't seen them before all my "how to" cards for the Casio fx-83GT CW can be found here:
drive.google.com/drive/folder...

A collage of images, include cherry and apple pies with the mathematical pi symbol on top; a couple of written pi-ku poems; a bowl of coloured beads next to a bead necklace showing the number of digits in pi; and two beaded pipe cleaner bracelets showing the digits of pi.

#PiDay is coming up this week! To mark the occasion, why not:

🥧 Write a Pi-ku www.mathsweek.scot/n...

🥧 Make a Pi Day necklace or bracelet www.mathsweek.scot/n...

🥧 Check out some of our other suggestions for celebrating Pi Day! www.mathsweek.scot/n...

#MathsWeekScot #MathsToday #UKMathsChat

Thank you. Been meaning to get this

A top 5 #mathgame from Joe Schwartz. Just perfect.