Emily Rae

It's great! I've counted 6 different "unofficial" clues that have popped up, all featuring staff members 😆 (the students are clearly avoiding revision for their mocks next week...!)

Phew, thought I was missing something 😅
I like how it's seemingly a special question for 2025, but could be adapted to any year by just changing the limits!

Is k 2025 or 4050 in your top answer?

In #MathsToday my #ALevelMaths students have been creating their own Elf on the Shelf puzzles using teachers in the maths department (mine is below) and sticking them anonymously around the corridors. They think they are incredibly funny and are very pleased with themselves 🤣

I know 😩😩😩

I'm just a girl.
Standing in front of Thursday.
Asking it to be Saturday. 😴

#IsItTheEndOfTermYet

Yes. I show them the curve of the original function y=(...)^n on Desmos, and then a second curve of the expansion where we keep adding on terms, to show that although adding subsequent terms makes the approximation better, it is only really a good approximation for a small range of values of x.

We do one of ours as a massive day, 9am to 7pm, so that gets a few out of the way 😅

Whaaaat? 😲

😩

a woman is covering her mouth with her hand while holding an arrow in her hand . Alt: Katniss from The Hunger Games doing the 3 finger salute

I think a parents evening at this stage of the term would actually finish me off 😴

In #MathsToday (this evening) I will mainly be working through the GCHQ Christmas Challenge so that I can do them when I give them to the students tomorrow 😅😄

My friends and family call me "Em" (which I like) but I always find it a bit uncomfortable when people who I've just met or who don't know me very well start calling me it. I don't say anything, but it always feels a bit presumptuous 😅

Omg. Shut up and take my money 😍

I didn't know this one either!

Oooooh! 😄

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This would make for a nice lesson on real-life data/graphs 😅📈📉📊 #MathsToday

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We're doing it as a MS Forms where students can submit their answers (but it's mainly just for fun) 🎄

Hi everyone! Please share this to any secondary Maths teachers 😊:
I have created a Christmas Maths exam paper in the style of Edexcel for my year 11 class for a bit of fun. Please feel free to use it too:

www.tes.com/teaching-res...

Omg! 😂

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A picture of Buddy the Elf looking excited with the caption "GUESS WHAT?? THE MATHS DEPARTMENT CHRISTMAS COMPETITION IS COMING!"

A photo of a classroom door with a printed poster on A4 stuck on it. The poster says "You've heard of Elf on the Shelf, now get ready for..." followed by a photo of the number 43 on a lime. There is a number 1 in the bottom corner to indicate the puzzle number. Below is a second poster with a QR code for students to submit their responses.

In #MathsToday I sent out a teaser on Teams for the Elf on the Shelf competition, then at the end of the day my colleague and I stuck 31 puzzles on the walls around our teaching area ready for Monday morning 😅🎄

Agree on the "how are they that old?" thing, though. I have a year 13 who I literally remember being a baby (I used to work with her dad, and he brought her in a couple of times when we had Saturday revision sessions) 😅

Yay, that's great news 🙌

I think we'll have to agree to disagree on this one. Maybe it's because by the time my students get to me, they already have an understanding of using the graphs from school. If a student was happy with using a circle then I wouldn't discourage it, but I certainly wouldn't teach it that way.

It's the drawing a cross and marking on 4 angles and deciding which quadrant is positive and all the other faffing about that I have an issue with. Compared with the graph, where you just draw a horizontal line across and go "oh, it's that" 😅

Every time something happens (graph changes direction or crosses the x axis) it's another 90° or π/2. It's not any harder to remember than on a circle.

That's how I do it, too 🙂