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New! My 196th gems post. Ideas, updates and resources for maths teachers. 💎

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And The New Dark Ages now has a cover! Bitter years of book reviewing have taught me not to get excited and that most books are fated to be ignored. But I am finding it hard to stay entirely jaded in this instance…

Love it that Putin was in the excellent bbc adaptation of Tinkor, Tailor...

Monsters cannot be announced. As soon as we try to announce our monster, we turn them into pets.

Giving Braverman the education brief is quite a choice for Reform. I was on an education commission with her once before she went completely mad and she knew absolutely nothing at all.

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Braverman as Education Secretary

Yes, just thinking about it...

I'm amazed at how many people would get the kids to do some kind of sketch. Isn't there all kind of ways that could go wrong

change in y over change in x = 4. Being honest here!

A long shot, but has anyone read Ingenious Pain by Andrew Miller?

Ok, I better read this. Everything I've read in teaching discusses the differences of the brains of teenagers

What are you arguing about it for? Your complaint is that the ban isn't long enough? It's harmful and please don't tell me the adolescent brain is the same as the adult brain, that's simply wrong.

I'm a teacher, I'm gonna take a good guess that I speak to teenagers far more often than you do

Lots of evidence that the rise in self-reported mental health issues by adolescents maps onto the rise of use of social media

Ok, I wasn't rattling off a slogan by the way

I don't understand. Social media is hugely problematic for those going through adolescence

Just started reading about the Dunning-Kruger effect. It's so bloody obvious.

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Joe Pesci is 83.
Here’s the pivotal scene from Goodfellas when he gets elaborately whacked by the mob for killing Billy Batts.

Desperate to say 'rebarbative' in a sentence

Apparently Halt and Catch Fire is awesome tv

Who runs Britain? The paradox of executive power

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"you should reward people who are slightly rebarbative and awkward, and maintain their positions" - I need this guy as my boss

A screenshot of 30 questions testing basic skills needed to access the GCSE maths exam successfully.

Three sets of increasingly difficult questions, designed to identify gaps in the basic skills needed to be successful on a GCSE paper.

All @tessmaths.bsky.social's idea.

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Absolutely. The reality for teachers can be miserable. I know more than one teacher who is off sick at the moment because of the behaviour of a tiny minority of students. That's the reality.

Thank you for writing this.

14. Argh one more - we should also be mindful that if schools become more disrupted, less calm, more uncertain they will be environments which more and more children and adults find unpleasant - we could get into a cycle of worse attendance and behaviour as a result.

Absolutely. There will be a significant minority of students in huge numbers of schools, including 'Outstanding' schools who go round deliberately ruining lessons, ruining the chances of other students and damaging the health of teachers.

That's the truth.

Do not always send suspended students home, government tells schools Changes to England's school system say on-site suspensions should be used for non-violent behaviour.

Thoughts on this mess.
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www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Anyone read this?

Ah, thank you!