Charlotte McFarlan

Getting them ready for Core Maths!

Love this. “SLOP” as Jo Morgan calls it (shed loads of practice)

Hmm yeah interesting. I do think it’s a bit trickier. More like to make a place value error? Rounding to dps you don’t need any place-holder 0s

I know I’ve read stuff from @adamboxereducation.bsky.social on how to deal with shouting out but I can’t for the life of me find it now. Can anyone help? 🙏🏼

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Mothers lose an average £65,618 in pay by the time their first child turns five Women’s average monthly earnings fall by 42% compared with one year before birth, ONS study finds Mothers lose an average of £65,618 in pay by the time their first child turns five, as the “motherhood penalty” risks their financial security, official figures show. Mums in England are hit by a “substantial and long-lasting reduction” in their pay after they have children, as they become less likely to stay in paid employment, the Office for National Statistics have said. Continue reading...

Mothers lose an average £65,618 in pay by the time their first child turns five

Love the phrase “authentic listening skills”. Think this is so often missed and really important. Often something students struggle with more than explaining their ideas.

#Mathstoday
Year 8 have been doing this Improper Fraction and Mixed Fraction matching task today from MrWhy1089 on TES. Did this with 2 groups, first cut out everything, second only did diagrams and improper fractions to begin with. The second group ended up completing more overall.

I’m amazed staffroom is so high. None of the three schools I worked in had a staffroom

Amazing 👏🏼

Yeah it’s like a modern take on “eat or be eaten” I guess

Leaving a school I was visiting today and over-hearing one of our trainees on the phone excitedly telling someone about how her lesson had gone and the feedback she got and how great her mentor is ❤️

In #MathsToday I’ve made the most of the interactive packages on Integral combined with the section tests to set cover work while I’m off 🤧 It is really great that #CoreMaths students can get free accounts for the core maths platform on Integral through AMSP.

Ohh lovely way to introduce rounding to one significant figure to estimate 😍

Oh the Taylor Swift one I do actually know all the words to but my actual age category (the orange ones) would be a struggle

According to this, I’m 65+

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Yup.
The rate limiting step in almost every context I've seen is attention. And you need a teacher to direct this. Almost every tech model starts from the wrong point because it assumes children will want to study the material and won't need their attention managed.

Reform are now coming after people with permanent residency. It'll be citizens next. No one is safe from authoritarian governments.

England’s lost mathematicians should concern us all New research shows how many disadvantaged students have their enjoyment of maths quashed in secondary school, and it’s a problem that everyone should find alarming

"If we want to understand why this pipeline leaks, we need to look at the experience of moving to secondary school. For too many disadvantaged pupils, this marks a decline in engagement and enjoyment from which they never recover."

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Feel like we should bring back the old twitter follow friday to boost good people on here who maybe didn't get an initial boost from the starter packs.

So follow @psurridge.bsky.social and @profjanegreen.bsky.social - two excellent and thoughtful political scientists.

Anyone here using anything good that schedules posts on Bluesky for free? Trying to use “Bluesky Scheduler” but just getting error messages 🤷🏻‍♀️

It’s come to this: Keir Starmer is now just the warm-up act for Nigel Farage | Aditya Chakrabortty As Labour flounders and dabbles in the politics of hatred to gain a point or two, it is those far from power who will suffer most, says Guardian columnist Aditya Chakrabortty

It’s come to this: Keir Starmer is now just the warm-up act for Nigel Farage | Aditya Chakrabortty

Schools gender pay gap is ‘grossly unfair’ Headteachers’ leaders urge DfE to carry out a detailed pay equality analysis, as report highlights persistent gender gaps

The persistence of the gender pay gap in schools is 'grossly unfair', says @naht.org.uk as it calls on the government to urgently conduct a detailed pay equality analysis

Filling in the Gaps With Histograms This blog posts focuses on the sorts of histograms that students see in GCSE Mathematics: histograms with unequal class intervals and where the heights of the bars represent frequency density.&nbsp…

#MathsToday Teaching histograms to year 11 this week and returned to @drrowlandson.bsky.social’s amazing planning series to start. So much deep thought and insight in every post! 🙌 ponderingplanning.wordpress.com/2020/06/05/f...

An example of a Senior Maths Challenge question with 5 multiple choices labelled A, B, C, D, E

A screenshot of a table with loads of links to MS Forms pages

A few years ago I turned a bunch of UKMT Senior Maths Challenge papers into self-marking MS Forms (5 questions per form) to set as optional quizzes for students, as a weekly bit of fun. To set them for your students, you need to be signed into Office 365. Click on the link to the quiz, then...

In #ALevelMaths #MathsToday I tried to persuade pupils that we should think of Newton's Second Law as a=F/m (forces give rise to accelerations) rather than F=ma.

I thought I was growing up in a racially tolerant Britain. I now realise I was wrong | Rohan Sathyamoorthy I’ve experienced more racism in the past year than the rest of my life put together – the only answer is for young people to stand up to the far right, says writer Rohan Sathyamoorthy

I thought I was growing up in a racially tolerant Britain. I now realise I was wrong | Rohan Sathyamoorthy

New Primary Round-up out now: kick-start the year with deeper subject knowledge, mixed-age support, ECT opportunities and more! mailchi.mp/ncetm/primar...

A Sikh woman was raped in broad daylight this weekend by white men shouting racist abuse.

Racism and misogyny go hand in glove.

The mainstreaming of anti-migrant politics and racist rhetoric have created a situation where violence against women is more likely, not less.