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Maths teacher UK Please don't add me to starter pack lists

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When we are old and have dementia, will the health care assistants give us a fake laptop to answer fake emails on?

11.12.2025 22:03 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Oooh maybe

11.12.2025 20:22 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

I love just casually doing this with no further elaboration in sixth form when we do trig identify proofs and there's always a few who are like 🀯

11.12.2025 20:16 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
10. How to be polite and show respect

In the old days of feudal Japan, a samurai warrior would shout

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03.12.2025 23:43 β€” πŸ‘ 21    πŸ” 10    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Made a site comparing the sizes of living things :)

The great Julius Csotonyi spent 5 months painting over 60 illustrations for the site, no ai used

> neal.fun/size-of-life/

10.12.2025 16:03 β€” πŸ‘ 1779    πŸ” 595    πŸ’¬ 53    πŸ“Œ 58
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It's not too soon to get Christmassy in your lessons!
b.link/alevelchrist... has Calculated Colouring from @drbennison.bsky.social Christmas Cards from @chalkdustmag.bsky.social and @mscroggs.co.uk GCHQ Christmas Challenge, and Complex Loci Christmas

10.12.2025 21:11 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Maybe you have a Hark status that can toggles on and off. So as long as you have been Harked an even number of times by Christmas

10.12.2025 20:28 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

You've discovered the modulo of Hark

10.12.2025 20:09 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

I started decoding one of the Morse sections and it was complete gibberish. Then realised I was holding the sheet upside down.

10.12.2025 11:17 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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This is the only one I can think of and they've stopped using the e

10.12.2025 08:58 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

"What did you learn Morse code for?!"

To impress my sixth formers every year when the GCHQ Christmas card comes out

10.12.2025 08:52 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

By the time 24th comes round I've sung 5 Carol services so I am OVER it

10.12.2025 07:15 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

I like to tell such students "look, you need all the marks you can get"

09.12.2025 21:35 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

If that have such little resilience then they definitely can't be arsed to do the bisector method!

09.12.2025 21:34 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Trial and error for me. "Guess and spin", kids!

09.12.2025 21:31 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Saw a post where someone had the opportunity to "meet Queen Camilla" and for a long moment I thought that was some famous singer I hadn't quite heard of.

09.12.2025 21:30 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I have a visualiser too! Bring it out for certain things.

09.12.2025 20:18 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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yes, very specious

09.12.2025 16:03 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

#millennialSkills astounded my students today by doing a touch typing test and getting 72wpm

09.12.2025 15:15 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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New blog post for maths teachers: "Things I assumed you knew"

www.resourceaholic.com/2025/12/thin...

Comments welcome!

#ukmathschat

07.12.2025 13:14 β€” πŸ‘ 49    πŸ” 22    πŸ’¬ 9    πŸ“Œ 2

And not narrowly targeted for maths but I wrote this post about how teachers can make better use of Excel across the board
bsky.app/profile/rsc-...

09.12.2025 14:57 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I'm finding www.examq.co.uk super useful at this time of year. Great clean looking site too.

09.12.2025 14:55 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

I am all-in on the graphics tablet and OneNote. Saves me a lot of hassle as I don't have to turn away from the students to write on the board. Also it completely fixed my recurrent shoulder pain.

09.12.2025 14:53 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

And CTRL+SHIFT+v

09.12.2025 14:52 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

And another thing!!! Those "Tube lines" "maps" where things don't intersect properly! Have you seen those? Popular here because of the London tube

09.12.2025 07:33 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I have issues with periodic tables of things that are not periodic

08.12.2025 21:52 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

I seem to have a small handful of y7s who had resolutely forgotten everything I have ever tried to teach them with the exception of this fact, which they always remember and always seem so delighted to tell me

08.12.2025 15:24 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

#MathsToday

08.12.2025 10:22 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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YES. this please

www.instagram.com/reel/DR9GoZ7...

07.12.2025 15:31 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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When will I need maths in real life

07.12.2025 15:16 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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