Dr Lucy Rycroft-Smith

You've got just a few days left to enter our infographic competition, open to any student aged 11-16 in #Scotland. More information here: rss.org.uk/RSS/media/8....

#MathsWeekScot

Stats in the wild As part of Maths Week Scotland 2025, Dr Lucy Rycroft-Smith and Darren Macey have produced a set of bespoke evidence-based resources for exploring statistics using outdoor maths. Each set of resources…

It's Sunday night - and we'd love to plan a #maths lesson for you.

Please enjoy some lesson materials spanning #stats and #ecology - with a bonus that we are also running an infographic design competition for students where they could win a book bundle!
#MathsWeekScot

Friends! We got to interview the excellent @cristinacost.bsky.social about #AI in #education and it was the perfect antidote to the vague, hype-filled nonsense that seems to be everywhere right now. ⬇️

Are you a student in #Scotland?

You could enter our infographic competition & win a lovely bundle of books related to maths, stats, biology & fiction by Scottish authors.
Closing date 10th October at midnight. Enter here:
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Please share! #MathsWeekScot

Are you a teacher in #Scotland?

Your students could enter our infographic competition & win a lovely bundle of books related to maths, stats, biology & fiction by Scottish authors.
Closing date 10th October at midnight. Enter here:
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Please share! #MathsWeekScot

YouTube video by Rycroft-Smith & Macey (research) September evidence update: what does recent research suggest about AI in education?

NEW UPDATE: Here is my monthly update for September on recent #research around the issue of #AI use in #education - please share widely!

youtu.be/5x1NrUPY898?...

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Oh wow

The perils of letting AI plan your next trip An imagined town in Peru, an Eiffel tower in Beijing: travellers are increasingly using tools like ChatGPT for itinerary ideas – and being sent to destinations that don't exist.

‘travellers are learning when they arrive at their would-be destination..they've been fed incorrect information or steered to a place that only exists in the hard-wired imagination of a robot.’

www.bbc.com/travel/artic...

Join Lucy and Darren as we review The Ultimate Guide to Adaptive Teaching by Sue Cowley. Theme music: "Funky Chunk" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution… Research Party Episode 3: The Ultimate Guide to Adaptive Teaching by Sue Cowley

And secondly, the third episode in our podcast (which we also filmed as a video in case your enjoy our faces) is out, in which we review The Ultimate Guide to Adaptive Teaching by Sue Cowley, which you can watch here: youtu.be/c7mx1xTDoM8

In this video, Dr Lucy Rycroft-Smith explores some of the most recent research around using AI in education, asking questions about the implications for teachers and schools. September evidence update: what does recent research suggest about AI in education?

It's a double video day (so rare it almost never happens!) Firstly, my #September update on the latest research in #AI in #education which you can watch here: youtu.be/5x1NrUPY898?...

Oooh, this looks very interesting 👀⬇️

Join Lucy and Darren as we review The Ultimate Guide to Adaptive Teaching by Sue Cowley. Theme music: "Funky Chunk" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution… Research Party Episode 3: The Ultimate Guide to Adaptive Teaching by Sue Cowley

I am extremely excited to share with you our third episode of #ResearchParty , where @darrenmacey.bsky.social and I review education books. This month, it is The Ultimate Guide to Adaptive Teaching by Sue Cowley @suecowley.bsky.social which came out in April 2025 - enjoy!

YouTube video by Rycroft-Smith & Macey (research) September evidence update: what does recent research suggest about AI in education?

NEW UPDATE: Here is my monthly update for September on recent #research around the issue of #AI use in #education - please share widely!

youtu.be/5x1NrUPY898?...

Here's the final day of this week's #StatsInTheWild challenges! Have a go, then head over to our website for more info on the new Stats in the Wild resources >> mathsweek.scot/schools/lear...

#UKMathsChat #MathsToday #EduSky #MathsWeekScot

A gorgeous video for our last daily challenge of #MathsWeekScot courtesy of science.ebird.org/en/status-an...

What can you see happening to the global population of barn swallows over time?
What stories can you tell about this data?
#StatsInTheWild @mathsweek.scot @royalstatsoc.bsky.social

Perfect 👌 what lovely names, too.

Perfect! 👌

A European goldfinch

A greenfinch

A bullfinch

Excellent guesses, everyone! Graph 1 was the European goldfinch; Graph 2 was the gorgeous greenfinch, and Graph 3 was the bullfinch: in my humble opinion a colour palette so perfectly balanced one could weep. Hope you are all enjoying #MathsWeekScot as much as I am!

‘You can shove anything in a pie’ is quite the claim 👀

I believe there is a long and unpleasant history of birds in pies in this illustrious country of ours, no?

‘Can you guess the bird from the pie chart?’ is a pretty cool intersection between #mathematics and #biology 😁🪶

It's Saturday of #MathsWeekScot - a perfect day for some #birdwatching.
Here is our daily #StatsinTheWild challenge. Can you guess the type of finch from the pie chart?
@mathsweek.scot @kateywhyte.bsky.social @altealorenzo.bsky.social @rss-teach.bsky.social

Welcome to Friday of #MathsWeekScot - and here is today's daily mini challenge from us! #StatsInTheWild

Do let us know if you tried it with students, and if so how it went.

Ooh me too! We need some #biologist friends to help us out!

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This one might surprise you (or not!)

The answer was graph C and me (the person who loves grasshoppers) #StatsInTheWild

A copy of the book ‘Flip the System UK: A Teachers’ Manifesto’

A hardback copy of the book ‘The Equal Classroom’

A softback copy of the book ‘The Equal Classroom’

Friends, I have a few duplicate copies of my books left over from signings- if you would like one, I will sign it to you (or anyone else as a gift) and send to you for the bargain price of £12 including postage (UK only). Send me a message- first-come, first-served as I only have a few!

It's another day of #MathsWeekScot and here is another mini challenge for you, based on exploring ideas of statistics and biology.
By now you may be guessing that one of us is pretty obsessed with #grasshoppers... 🦗 #StatsInTheWild

These are both beautiful and instantly recognisable- excellent job! #MathsWeekScot

It is Wednesday of #MathsWeekScot @mathsweekscot and here is today's #StatsInTheWild challenge for you!
@scotstemambassador.bsky.social
@royalstatsoc.bsky.social
@robertcuffe.bsky.social
@rssdiversity.bsky.social
@rssedinburgh.bsky.social
@rss-teach.bsky.social might enjoy this!

Here is one of the original tests David Green gave Year 9 pupils in 1986:

Will the subjects not have, in this phenomenon familiar to all of them, a special chance of understanding intuitively the law of large numbers?' (pp. 49-50).