Peter Mattock FCCT CMgr FCMI

Missed my webinar with @educake.bsky.social last week looking at tackling the trickiest concepts in secondary maths? What were you doing with your time???

Fortunately for you, you can catch up on everything we discussed on Educake's YouTube channel here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ehDBzcr-sok

ResearchEd Birmingham session: Front-Loaded Feedback and the 'I do, We do, You do' So today I attended the excellent ResearchEd Birmingham event and re-delivered the session I ran at the ResearchEd National conference in Se...

Home now from a brilliant day at #rEDBrum @researchedbrum.bsky.social. Great to catch up with old colleagues and meet new ones.

For those wanting the slides, you can find them both in this blog: educatingmrmattock.blogspot.com/2026/02/rese...

Picture of 4 badges from Research Ed Birmingham

Managed to collect all four of this year's #REdBrum badges before the end of the first break!
#GottaCatchEmAll

Slide from Carl Hendrick about retrieval practice

Great early message from @carlhendrick.substack.com at #REdBrum

Picture of rain at my train station.

A miserable start to this Saturday morning. But that means that things can only get better for my exciting day speaking and listening at #REdBrum!

The writing framework unpacked (1): Have we undervalued writing?

New podcast 🎧

Episode 1 of The Writing Framework Unpacked asks:
should we prioritise writing over reading?

An insightful conversation about the writing framework and its implications.

🎧 open.spotify.com/show/7K4vM36...

#twinklbeyondenglish
@twinklresources.bsky.social @twinklbeyond.bsky.social

New consultation on accountability looks to shake up Progress 8 - but will it incentivise what it hopes to? The long-awaited schools white paper, 'Every child achieving and thriving' , has been published today. Leading the way are the reforms to th...

Alongside my earlier piece, I have written a follow up blog giving my opinions about the proposed changes to school accountability measures in the @departmentforedu.bsky.social consultation.

Read it all here: educatingmrmattock.blogspot.com/2026/02/new-...

Open Patterns When we teach students about patterns, we’re really teaching them how to begin to think algebraically. This is especially true when we use Growing Patterns or Visual Patterns from Fawn Nguyen…

A lovely variation of a growing patterns activity from @mikewiernicki.bsky.social. What if we give students an image of Stage 1 (instead of 1-3) & ask, "How might it grow?" B/c they create the pattern, students have "a real 'need' to know how to describe it."

QE Insights - Twinkl Stay up-to-date with changes and events in primary education using our handy news feed. Includes articles from trusted sources about the web.

My latest @twinklresources.bsky.social QE insights article explores the changes that @departmentforedu.bsky.social have proposed to Progress 8 and school accountability announced yesterday as part of the Schools White Paper.

Read about what they are proposing here: www.twinkl.co.uk/news/departm...

⏰Last chance to sign up!

'Maths unlocked: cracking the trickiest concepts' is happening tomorrow (24.02.26) at 4pm.

Join @mrmattock.bsky.social & Bella Dunn for practical, high-impact approaches for tackling the trickiest topics in secondary maths.

Book your place👉 us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Linked to this, the @educationgovuk has also published two consultations out today.

The first is on the SEND reforms: www.gov.uk/government/p...

The second is on changes to KS4 performance measures and RISE support: consult.education.gov.uk/school-accou...

The Department for Education has released its new white paper for the future of England's schools.

Read the full paper here: assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/69972c...

Cover of the book 'Maths Revolution'

Very excited to receive my copy of 'Maths Revolution' by the wonderful @tessmaths.bsky.social today. Was lucky enough to have seen a copy of this to review - a must read for anyone working with struggling or reluctant GCSE learners.

Pupils' SEND support to be reviewed after primary, leaked plans suggest Leaks suggest plans for a complete redesign of special educational needs and disabilities support in schools.

Strong indications that we will be seeing the schools white paper next week when parliament returns following the recess after the BBC reported leaked details on the SEND reforms this morning:

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

'Maths unlocked: cracking the trickiest concepts' with @mrmattock.bsky.social

📅24.02.26
⏰4pm

This webinar will give you:
☑️Clear explanations for complex topics
☑️Ways to address common misconceptions
☑️Classroom strategies that build deeper understanding

Sign up now👉 us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Anyone know of any resources for the new Edexcel Extended Maths Certificate please? My son is sitting it and as it’s new we can’t find much - except on Twinkl (well done @mrmattock.bsky.social )!

Really interesting article from
@stanfordmedicine.bsky.social today examining the difference between how those with maths learning difficulties compare two quantities with those that don't have the same difficulties.

Well worth a read - provides great insights.

med.stanford.edu/news/all-new...

Maths conf is back for 2026! Join me and many other excellent maths educators at #Mathaconf40

An interesting property of linear sequences - inspired by the 1% club. The 1% club is one of my favourite quiz shows. It is the only quiz show I have actually applied to be on (no success unfortunately) but I pl...

My first blog of 2026, inspired by yesterday's @itvx.com 1% club question of the day, which led me down an interesting little path regarding linear sequences.

Read about it here: educatingmrmattock.blogspot.com/2026/01/an-i...

QE Insights - Twinkl Stay up-to-date with changes and events in primary education using our handy news feed. Includes articles from trusted sources about the web.

I am pleased to announce that the next article in my series on "hard-to-teach" topics in GCSE maths on circle theorems is now live.

Read my thoughts here: www.twinkl.co.uk/news/gcse-ma...

I would love to hear if this has worked for others, but if not what has.

Comment on this post to let me know.

Monday 23rd of February - @twinklresources.bsky.social TeachMeet about generating mathematical discussion: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/generating...

Tuesday 24th February - 'cracking the trickiest concepts' in maths @educake.bsky.social webinar: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Not one but two chances to listen to me talk about aspects of teaching mathematics next month - on two consecutive days!

Click the links in the first comment to sign up for either one or both of the sessions.

What better way to start your week with a double-dose of talking about maths?!

Absolutely fantastic day at @mathshorizons.bsky.social talking with people about teaching problem solving in maths.

Big thanks to @drhelendrury.bsky.social, @edsouthall.bsky.social (and the other members of the team) for hosting such a wonderful get together and discussion.

Picture of me on my way to the train station

Early start this morning for my trip to London to take part in the @mathshorizons.bsky.social session looking at their new problem solving framework.
Looking forward to catching up with many of my friends and colleagues in maths education and getting into a fascinating area of debate.

That actually seems to suggest it is the whole expression - the radical expression. I guess it is one of those things like trapezoid/trapezium. In this country a trapezium has exactly one pair of parallel lines whereas a trapezoid has at least one pair in the US (as I understand it).

Haha, interestingly I always thought 'radical' was synonymous with surd, and didn't realise you applied it to all roots. Is it the symbol alone that it is the radical? Or the whole expression?

Image of the surd Frayer model

My week of website updating comes to a close with four new Frayer models on www.frayer-model.co.uk.

Two in the number section - surds and rational numbers

Two in the algebra section - coefficient and variable.

YouTube video by Twinkl Educational Publishing Making Maths Click: How to Engage Pupils Through Curiosity and Culture

Or, if you prefer, you can watch the conversation on YouTube

www.youtube.com/watch?v=dUl1...

Making Maths Click: How to Engage Pupils Through Curiosity and Culture Podcast Episode · Leading With... · 01/16/2026 · 28m

Listen to it on Apple Podcasts here: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/m...
Or on Spotify here: open.spotify.com/episode/5UBZ...

Very excited to announce that my episode of the @twinklresources.bsky.social 'Leading With' podcast featuring @tomrocksmaths.bsky.social looking at engaging pupils and the wider school community with mathematics is now live!

Check the comments to listen to the full episode.