Matt Man

New blog post for maths teachers: "Things I assumed you knew"

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Day 1 of Developing #ALevelMaths pedagogy completed!
A fabulous workgroup where we looked through aspects of teaching for mastery (A Level style!). We focused a lot of variation theory. Impacting across Gloucestershire, Worcestershire and Birmingham - well over 500 students benefit from this!

Doing an adaptation of @mrlevmaths.bsky.social's variation theory for Session 1 of "Developing A Level pedagogy" for GLOW Maths Hub on Monday 3rd Nov!
Can't wait for it!
And a plug for anyone based in Gloucs and Worcs and teach A Level, then sign up here: amsp.org.uk/event/73f968...

Matt is such a great ambassador for the GLOW Maths Hub. We’re so lucky to have him as an LLME.

If you’re Teaching A Level Maths in Gloucs/Worcs, make sure you sign up for his Developing A Level Pedagogy work group.

Lovely, can you DM me your school email address and I'll send a copy through

Definitely will Kirsty. Shall I ping you on Basecamp?

#Mathsconf39 reflections October sees the first round of Maths Teacher conferences of the 2025/26 academic year. I had the privilege of attending two CPD days out (one on Wednesday which was Day 1 of the NCETM Developing A…

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My reflections on #MathsConf39 organised by @lasalleed.bsky.social

A summary of my workshop will come soon!

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From what I remember, it was something like this:

The hidden quadratics one that I suggested at the end! 😉 #Mathsconf39

Thank you to so many of you (30+) teachers and tutors coming to my #Mathsconf39 workshop! To those that have missed it (and those that want to see what I shared), I'll be sharing the materials (though not the exam questions themselves!) at a later point. Feel free to DM me if you want it quicker!

Down London town for @lasalleed.bsky.social #MathsConf39!

Thinking carefully about representations Teachers carefully select representations of mathematics to expose mathematical structure. The intention is to support pupils in 'seeing' the mathematics, rather than using the representation as a tool to 'do' the mathematics. These representations become mental images that students can use to think about mathematics, supporting them to achieve a deep understanding of mathematical structures and connections.

Thinking carefully about representations What and why? What mathematical structure does the representation expose? Why this representation, and not another? When? In what topics? At what point within those topics? How? How will you use it? How do you want students to use it?

The main aim of this session was really to get teachers using this framework to discuss which representations they would use and when. But colouring in is always a bonus.

An interactive version of the representations is here: www.desmos.com/calculator/3...

A quartet of representations of the binomial distributions. Screenshots from https://www.desmos.com/calculator/3ea50eafbc

X ~B (10, 0.4) Shade the diagrams to represent the probability P(3 ≤X <6) and draw a numberline.

X~B(10,0.4) Shade the diagrams to represent the probability P(3 ≤ X < 6) and draw a numberline. X ~ B(8, 0.7) Which is larger: P(X < 5) or P(X = 6)? X~B(12,0.36) P(X ≥ c) < 0.5 What is the smallest possible value of c?

X~B(10,0.4) Calculate the interquartile range of this distribution. What is the mode? X~B(8, 0.7) P(X ≤ a) < 0.1 What is the largest possible value of a? P(X ≥ b) < 0.1 What is the smallest possible value of b? X~B(12,0.36) P(X ≤ a) < 0.2 What is the largest possible value of a? P(X ≥ b) < 0.2 What is the smallest possible value of b?

In #MathsToday I made 40 A Level teachers colour in representations of the binomial distribution.

This is your regular reminder that if you teach #ALevelMaths you should definitely try to join your local Maths Hub’s A Level Pedagogy group. There is some brilliant stuff going on all over England.

Day 1 of @ncetm.bsky.social training for Developing A Level pedagogy completed #ALevelMaths. An honour to be asked to lead a 10 minute session on observing learning to all the A Level LLMEs.

Based in Gloucs/Worcs? Then come to the workgroup that I'll be leading. Info: amsp.org.uk/event/73f968...

Sometimes, it's about the funding to ensure that the course remains cost even. I know that lots of schools face battles with this including mine.

I've got a Ukrainian student to who got a Grade 6 from a previous school. The student is doing very well and has a great work ethic and is performing well compared to other students in the class!

Great points made there!

That would be wonderful, thank you!

It wasn't me that did the table! Though that does make a great discussion! Might use this as a base for the A Level groups (or for those that teach Core or GCSE)!

Good to see a current version of this ever-popular table (thanks Matt Man). You can assume, though, that many of the 9/A* students also took Further Maths

I wonder if that might be in Pearson's Further Maths insights. I have signed up for this so would be interested to see if it's there. @martinnoon.bsky.social - wonder if you can shed some light to this?

After going to the "Exam Insights Summer 2025" CPD session by Pearson Edexcel, it made me think of the below questions. We'll discuss this at the start of my workshop on "Moving 'em up to the next grade!" for #ALevelMaths #MathsConf39 @lasalleed.bsky.social

My #MathsConf39 workshop choices (at the moment...it might change!)

1 - @robeastaway.bsky.social
2 - @nathanday.bsky.social
3 - @mr-man-maths.bsky.social‬
4 - Charlie Harber
5 - Gabriel Nwauzor

Join me with @lasalleed.bsky.social, get your ticket here: completemaths.com/community/mathsconf39

That's the difference!

In #ALevelMaths yesterday, one of the Year 12s might have accidentally bought a rogue scientific calculator. Can you spot the differences? The Year 12 pupil was gutted as apparently the price was the same as a genuine one.

My #MathsConf39 workshop choices:

1 - Jack Jennings
2 - @mrlevmaths.bsky.social & Shane Steele
3 - @mr-man-maths.bsky.social‬
4 - @axiommaths.bsky.social
5 - Karen Hancock

Join me with @lasalleed.bsky.social, get your ticket here: completemaths.com/community/mathsconf39

Strong lineup for #MathsConf39!
1 - @robeastaway.bsky.social
2 - @mrlevmaths.bsky.social & Shane Steel
3 - @mr-man-maths.bsky.social - See you there?
4 - @dagsmaths.bsky.social
5 - Raghav Mehra
Join me with @lasalleed.bsky.social, get your ticket here: completemaths.com/community/mathsconf39

An excerpt of a spreadsheet containing #ALevelMaths data from the June 2025 Edexcel papers for #Mathsconf39
Inspired from the "Moving em up" workshop where
@justmaths.bsky.social shared on GCSE, I'll be attempting to do this for A Level. Lots of discussion promised!
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Want to work together on "Teaching for Mastery at A Level" and are based in the GLOW (Gloucs & Worcs) area? Then click on the link and find out more! First session is on Monday 3rd November at North Bromsgrove High School. #ALevelMaths #Mathstoday