Emily Rae

I've had mixed experiences with Matt Haig's books. I really didn't enjoy The Humans (couldn't relate to any of the characters), I thought The Midnight Library was... fine (it had some good moments) but I absolutely loved How To Stop Time, couldn't put it down.

Probably that too! There's so much great stuff in the autumn term (Cipher Challenge, Senior Maths Challenge,...)

(I also have a massive winter coat, and it does make a difference) 😊

I think it's more the darkness and feeling like the day is over by the time you get home... in summer you can get home and have what feels like another half a day in the garden after work 😄

For us it's an open day (Saturday), online consultation day & evening, 1-1 chats with students after mocks (trying to fit them into normal lessons), and just the general dark/manky weather 😮‍💨 Roll on spring 😂

Teachers: Which is the worst half term of the year, and why is it this one? 😵‍💫😴

I'm sure noone is surprised by this...

A news article with the title "Sunak surge that spells trouble for Boris". Many of the pie charts have proportions that don't reflect the numbers on them

Also the pie charts in this are iffy at best (from 2021, sorry I don't have a link for it)

A graph with the title Mordaunt loses her head-to-head advantage. A blue bars labelled Liz Truss 48% is around three times the height of one labelled Penny Mordaunt 42%

It's a bit old, but this one from the Tory leadership race (the Sunak one!)
www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...

Core Maths teachers - I’m looking at misleading diagrams/charts with my class on Friday. Anyone got any ‘great’ ones I can share with them? I’m going to use this classic but on the look out for a few more crackers @ecrmaths.bsky.social @davegjones.bsky.social @coremathscat.bsky.social

When they showed me I was like, "Wait, so you all track each other?"... to which they replied, "Well, yeah, but not in a creepy way..." 🤣

What’s everyone’s experience of students managing their maths exercise books? Loose worksheets are a problem. We’ve tried gluing in but then it can get costly. We’re currently trialing hole punching books and using treasury tags but students struggle with the dexterity needed & organisation. Ideas?

Oooh, fancy!

Ooh, strong snack game. I would be there for the Choco Leibniz alone... 🤩

I'm just thinking back to when I was at school, and if you didn't know where your friend was then you had to either just wait for then to turn up, or ring their parents' landline and ask them if they knew... 😂

In #MathsToday I asked some students if they knew where another student in their friendship group was, and they said "Oh, we can check on Life360, we have a group on there" and pulled out their phones.
Kind of wild that they basically have a Marauders Map where they can see where their friends are 😅

Thanks Matt 😊 Yeah, they're a brilliant bunch of students.

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They're a thoughtful bunch 🥰

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Me neither. Maybe more like an autumn hen 🐔

Does that mean you just miss out on a half term birthday?

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Thank you 😊 We have some lovely students.

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