Jenny Cains

I ❤️ this activity so much! Can’t wait until I can use it in our SoW after Christmas ☺️

When your children are finally old enough to help cut out your tarsia jigsaws 😁🥳

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.

Started the binomial expansion today with Year 12. Introduced it a different way to normal and it actually worked really well 😁 also started randomly assigning partners at the start of each lesson using playing cards - definitely recommend this for collaboration outside of friendship groups ♥️♠️♦️♣️

This book is fab! Even if you’ve been teaching A Level a while, you’ll still get so much from it 😁

As a twin-mom, welcome to the club! I have identical twin girls and it’s a wonderful blend of patience-testing madness and heart-warming amazingness all wrapped in double the cuddles 🥰

Big thanks too to @coremathscat.bsky.social for a fantastic session on how teaching maths in context can be such a powerful pedagogical tool!

Thank you so much for agreeing to share your top tips and tasks for establishing the right classroom culture with Y12s. Really valuable points for all A Level teachers!

Exciting day in the GLOW region as we’re hosting our annual MathsFest event for Secondary teachers across Gloucs & Worcs #letstalkmaths

Yes, they’re great when you want your students to practice exam skills/concepts but they’re sick of exam questions. Multiple choice questions which require some deeper thinking. kellymaths.com/foam.php Found this link to them as not easily available online

We have teachers who much prefer Stats and others who are more confident in Mech so splitting makes sense for us.
Plus, splitting means you can pair up experienced teachers with ECTs etc.

We split A Level teaching between two teachers, one Pure & Mech, one Pure & Stats.
The split for FM changes each year depending on how timetabling works out, sometimes split between two teachers, sometimes three.

Done 👍🏼 happy birthday 🥳

Really helpful - thank you for signposting!

C’mon Ofsted - bring it on 💪🏼

Hope the first day went well!

We don’t leave all the applied for Yr2 but the only stats we do in Yr1 are discrete probability distributions. We save everything else for Yr2. Mechanics is a bit more of a 50:50 split.

No, they seem to be tricky to get hold of online. I’ve got quite a lot of them downloaded (although not many answers) Hopefully this link lets you access them: ccsacademy-my.sharepoint.com/:f:/g/person...

In #mathstoday we used questions from the old Foundations of Advanced Mathematics papers to revise cumulative frequency in #coremaths 😁

Woohoo - well done you! 🥳

Belated happy birthday!

Never too early to start planning for Christmas 🎄🎁😁

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! 😴

In #mathstoday this odd one out task worked really well and allowed us to recover quite a lot of important vocabulary 😁

Guess what we’ve been doing in #mathstoday 😁 💨

A decision that did not go down well in our household.

Ah, fab, thanks @davegjones.bsky.social! That is really nice 👌🏼

Thanks! I don’t know why I didn’t do it horizontally like a number line. Funny how different people’s brains work! I thought splitting tax up was the only way it made sense although it does add extra representations for them to get their head round. Couldn’t think of a better way 🤷🏻‍♀️

Need some help from #coremaths peeps - trying to create bar models for tax & NI from the 2025 Paper 1 Prelim. Thoughts? Does it work? NI seems to but tax is messy. Not sure how to make the £100,000-£125,140 one any better. All feedback welcome! @reflectivemaths.bsky.social @ecrmaths.bsky.social

Oooh, love updating my basket of inflation goods. I get students to do a card sort deciding what’s in and what’s out. Thanks for the heads up!

In #mathstoday there was much excitement from my Y7s when I told them the starter was a hidoku puzzle from @mathequalslove.bsky.social. Today’s was obviously Pi themed 🥧 😁