@xandermaths.bsky.social
The story is actually quite a bit more interesting than you would expect, for something that comes across meaningless and probably is. youtu.be/laZpTO7IFtA
20.10.2025 04:51 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Maths question titled ‘Suggest possible equations for the graphs on the diagram. Generalise your answer.’ The diagram shows two parabolas: one opening upwards and one opening downwards. They touch at a single point above the x-axis, forming a point of tangency. The task is to suggest equations for these parabolas and to generalise the form of such equations.
Maths problem saying ‘Identify the odd one out in each row. Fill the gap so that it is no longer odd.’ In each row there are three expressions with powers, with one that is not equal to the other two. There is a space on each row to fill with something equal to the odd one out.
Other ones we've done include:
1) another nice quadratics task with some lovely generalisinging
2) an odd one out indices task, with opportunities for some creativity when giving the odd ones out friends!
Iteration
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In memoriam...
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Speed, Distance and Time Practice Questions
📚 10 Brand new questions (now 33 in total!)
✅ Answers updated
🍿 Video solutions added (72 minutes worth)
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✨ We hope you had a fantastic summer! ✨
To make the return to school a little easier, we’ve just added a HUGE range of brand-new resources on our site - with even more dropping later this week!
🔗 Explore them all on @DrFrostMaths.bsky.social at the link below 👇
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🚨 Just released! 🚨
The Edexcel GCSE 2024 papers are now live @DrFrostMaths.bsky.social 🎉
📌 Set them as tasks for your classes here: buff.ly/OdVYIq3
💡 Don’t forget: You can also generate shadow papers – see the vid below for a quick demo 👇
#Edexcel #GCSE2024 #MathsEd
🤯 More lessons published @drfrostmaths.bsky.social 🤯
🟣 Forces on a Particle in Equilibrium with Friction
🟠 Forces on an Accelerating Particle with Inclined Planes (No friction)
🟢 Negative Indices
🔴 Solving Equations with Negative & Fractional Powers
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🦾 Midweek Mechanics Resource Drop @DrFrostMaths.bsky.social 🥳
🟣 Accelerating Particles on Inclined Planes with Friction
🟢 Forces on Accelerating Connected Particles with Friction
🔴 Forces on Accelerating Connected Particles on an Inclined Plane
All here👇
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🤯 Weekend Resource Drop @drfrostmaths.bsky.social 🤯
🟣 Hypothesis Test for the Mean of a Population
⚪ Adding and Subtracting Fractions with the Same Denominator
🟢 Fractional Indices
⚫ Recurring Decimals to a Fraction
🔴 Mean From Ungrouped Frequency Tables
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A screenshot of the end screen to a game of Duelling Mathematicians, showing the new Duel Statistics pop-up.
For those unfortunate enough to be starting back tomorrow...
Over the summer Duelling Mathematicians has had a bit of an upgrade.
Loads of new question types, game statistics, and design tweaks, but the same frenetic music and sound effects.
More to come!
interwovenmaths.com/_Duels.html
A screenshot of the following text: In case you want to do something a bit different, here's some other Mathematical things you can do over the Summer: 1) Watch some Mathematical YouTube videos. I'd suggest: Ayliean - https://www.youtube.com/@Ayliean/videos Tibees - https://www.youtube.com/@tibees/videos Ellie Sleightholm - https://www.youtube.com/@EllieSleightholm/videos 2) Do some Mathematical art. Lots of ideas here: https://www.artfulmaths.com/blog 3) Play a Mathematical game. I strongly recommend the Sumaze games (https://www.mei.org.uk/sumaze/) and Euclidea (https://www.euclidea.xyz/) 4) Read a Mathematical book. Some good suggestions here: https://nrich.maths.org/recommended-books 5) Watch a Mathematical film/documentary. I'd suggest: Hidden Figures, The Man Who Knew Infinity, or Fermat's Last Theorem (https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b0074rxx/horizon-19951996-fermats-last-theorem), 6) Have a go at some Mathematical puzzles. https://nrich.maths.org/students/secondary 7) Explore Mathigon. There's lots of really cool stuff on there. https://mathigon.org/activities 8) Sign up to Parallel and have a go at some of the Parallelograms puzzles: https://parallel.org.uk/parallelograms?latest=1 9) Create some Desmos art: https://www.desmos.com/art
I hope my Year 10s have enjoyed their summer holiday work, which included various options from the likes of @ayliean.bsky.social, @tibees.bsky.social, @elliesleightholm.bsky.social, @meimaths.bsky.social, @nrichmaths.bsky.social, @simonsinghnerd.bsky.social, and @desmos.com.
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Just gave this a rather significant visual upgrade.
It's now quite colourful, matching the textbooks!
I've also added in totals, but they tend to be off by a couple of marks from the official ones as they are just the sums of the notional component boundaries.
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New CPD resource for A-Level Maths teachers! 🧮
I've analysed a tricky trig equation that consistently causes problems for Year 13s. In this thread, I'll break down the key teaching points. #AlevelMaths #MathsCPD
The rise of populism… and what happens once in power to the economy (via @data.ft.com )
24.08.2025 11:52 — 👍 66 🔁 18 💬 1 📌 8
My new role starts on Monday. That came around fast.
I've been thinking about transitions between lessons recently and blogged about 'The Start of The Lesson' at taylorda01.weebly.com
Enjoy the final weekend of the summer holidays!
The hat trick has landed. Following on from 'The Start of The Lesson' and 'Just After The Start of The Lesson', I've just blogged about 'The Lesson' at taylorda01.weebly.com
I hope you're all as excited as I am about getting back to teaching this week!
In June, we released enough brand new resources to help you plan 832 lessons across the whole national curriculum.
Chances are we’ve got something in there you could use… only one way to find out 👀 Explore resources: https://oaknat.uk/4ju7yrJ
So it took a while, but here is the write up of my MathsConf38 session - Breaking Up with Formulae: Ratio Tables are “The One”! Turns out starting a new job the same week as presenting, then a busy summer weren't ideal for getting this done before now! 😬🫣
31.08.2025 11:42 — 👍 38 🔁 14 💬 1 📌 0
Instead, there are three genuine explanations for Britain being singled out for punishment in markets. First, the rise in 30-year UK gilt yields reflects a collapse in demand from defined benefit pension funds as they hit maturity and no longer require such debt in large quantities. Second is the peculiar twice-yearly pass-fail nature of Britain's fiscal rules, which create destructive industries in forecasting black holes in the public finances and imagining scare stories about who tax rises will hit next. The third is that the binary fiscal rules relate to highly uncertain fiscal forecasts five years hence, set by the independent Office for Budget Responsibility, not the current reality.
This is a helpful explanation from @chrisgiles.ft.com on why the UK is facing difficulties with the financial markets despite the underlying public finances probably being in better shape than others in the G7
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Promised to be better at doing a daily #mathstoday and this is my first post of the term. 🤦🏻♀️
Rolled out a Durham Maths Mystery to practice algebra with Y8, they loved it. Lots of resilience. 💪🏻
These resources are 20 years old and I forget they exist, rediscover them & love them all over again.
Two squares showing how root 12 can be expressed as 2 root 3
Surds today: using an area model to see what happens when we simplify a used!
#alevelmaths
I suggest that the easiest homework to assign (either online or on paper) is a Transum self-marking exercise. Name a Maths topic and there’s an exercise for it. What’s not to like? No log-in needed.
Start here: www.transum.org/Software/Mat...
Or search: www.transum.org/Search_Form....
#mathstoday
Representing Data Match-up from the Standards Unit https://www.stem.org.uk/system/files/elibrary-resources/legacy_files_migrated/6515-S5.pdf
Representing Data Card Sort - Standards Unit
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One of many absolute classics from the legendary Standards Unit by Malcolm Swan.
nrich's Cryptarithms https://nrich.maths.org/problems/cryptarithms
Cryptarithms by nrich
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Just so satisfying.
Already in my errors document
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And it's not the only time it happens! You'll have to search to find the other one!
Relative Frequency Practice Questions
⭐️ 11 Brand new questions (now 19 in total!)
✅ Answers updated
🍿 Video Solutions added (40 mins worth)
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Have you tried out the number cross puzzles with your students yet? Cross out numbers in the grid until each row and column sums to the numbers written outside the grid.
I just added a brand new 9x9 sized number cross puzzle to my website.
mathequalslove.net/9x9-number-c...
#mtbos #iteachmath
Working for finding the integral of x⁵lnx by parts, using u=x⁵ and v'=lnx
In #ALevelMaths #MathsToday we saw that if you make the 'wrong' choice for integration by parts with a logarithm involved, you can still proceed to the correct antiderivative.
26.09.2025 11:11 — 👍 12 🔁 1 💬 3 📌 0Student solutions to the first of our "Fortnightly questions" are now available here:
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There are some interesting different approaches to the problem!
New question going live on Friday 19th September.
#UKmathschat #Mathstoday #Alevelmaths
