New! My 195th Gems post. 💎

Ideas, resources and updates for maths teachers.

www.resourceaholic.com/2026/01/5-ma...

Hat tips to follow.

#ukmathschat #mathstoday

Oh my gosh!!

Such a brilliant bank of resources 😍

The OAT Maths NP10 resources introduce Double Number Lines and Ratio Tables rather nicely indeed also, and use them extensively throughout:
maths.ormistonacademiestrust.co.uk/number-propo...

Ratio Tables ratio-tables-1Download

This from @alcmaths.bsky.social on Ratio Tables is great for seeing all the different uses of them:
alcmaths.wordpress.com/2022/05/02/r...

Teachers - did you know about I'm a Mathematician/I'm a Scientist? You can book a free online chat with your class and a real life mathematician, statistician, or scientist to ask them all about their job and career. Bookings here: imamathematician.uk/book-activity/

Me in front of the complete maths banner

Group photo from pre-conference drinks

Front page to my new website, www.front-loaded-feedback.co.uk announced at the conference.

A bit late but big thanks to @lasalleed.bsky.social , @aqaeducation.bsky.social and @oupress.bsky.social for another great #mathsconf #mathsconf38. Loved catching up with old and new contacts, some great sessions from @krisboulton.bsky.social @alcmaths.bsky.social and @ljohns6.bsky.social

Thank you! ☺️

So excited for another day of maths talk tomorrow!
@nmmathshub.bsky.social

Final session involved looking at lots of data from Edexcel with @justmaths.bsky.social.
Looking at which topics prevent students from moving to the next grade. Similar triangles came up SO much!

Beautiful surds questions with @mathsjem.bsky.social - really like the fourth, where students need to simplify before they rationalise.

Place value fun with @mrtaylormaths2.bsky.social - looking at how we can show decimal and percentage equivalents.

Great ideas for enrichment activities with @stephenfroggatt.bsky.social - looking at how to quickly find the day of important dates in history.

Really enjoyed yesterday’s #mathsconf38 - from quickly calculating dates in a different century to the most gorgeous surd questions, I’ve had lots to think about!
Best of all, it was great to see everyone - especially at an Ormiston School 💕.

We all love a sneaky one ❤️❤️

📣 Another #MathsConf38 workshop announcement!

➖➕Negative Numbers, Positive Progress: Taking Time Now to Make Gains Down the Line

This one is by
@alcmaths.bsky.social

Learn more and book your tickets here: completemaths.com/community/ma...

#MathsConf38 #MathsCPDchat #negativenumbers

📣 Another #MathsConf38 workshop announcement!

🧮Making the Casio fx-83GT CW an Essential Tool in the Classroom
Led by Claire Clay @cclay8.bsky.social

Learn more and book your tickets here: completemaths.com/community/ma...

#MathsConf38 #MathsCPDchat #CalculatorConfidence #Casio #MathsTeaching

A graph from the Financial Times, titled: “Bus usage outside London has fallen since the market was deregulated, while car ownership and London bus usage have grown” The y-axis measures change in bus usage and car ownership since 1982 as a percentage, on logarithmic scale.

A tweet from John Burn-Murdoch which reads: For those wondering about y-axis: A volume can rise 100%, 200%, 1000%, but can only ever fall 100% Showing that on linear scale is therefore misleading coz you give more tha 10x as much space to something that grows 10x, as to something that shrinks 10x Log scale fixes that.

To introduce logarithmic scales with #CoreMaths, we looked at this graph from @jburnmurdoch.ft.com, and then at his explanation for the scale. I really like this example of a log scale in the wild! #MathsToday

Thanks Sam!

WM Secondary Conference The Central and North Mids Maths Hubs have come together to put on this Secondary Mastery conference for all teachers in the Central and North Mids Hub regions. It aims to share a number of...

just stepping in to promote this event here because it looks fantastic

featuring, amongst others: @robeastaway.bsky.social @alcmaths.bsky.social @leannepbb.bsky.social

www.centralmathshub.com/wm-secondary...

Here’s the OAT curriculum if you haven’t seen it maths.ormistonacademiestrust.co.uk

This is an AMAZING opportunity to work in a school that loves talking about maths pedagogy. They are involved in lots of the NCETM’s mastery programmes and have worked hard to implement the OAT curriculum over the last few years.
Don’t miss out!

t.co/Kxm4TFJ49j

If you’ve not looked in a while, or never, please do. It’s all free.
maths.ormistonacademiestrust.co.uk

@cclay8.bsky.social @emmaemma53.bsky.social @alcmaths.bsky.social

Pupils in England to be taught about online spending and scams Financial literacy lessons to be given to pupils at primary and secondary schools

Pleased to launch >80 lessons to support financial education and application of maths 👇

www.theguardian.com/education/20...

❤️ this!

A spreadsheet with powers of 2 in column A and multiples of 2 in column B. It has been annotated with similarities in blue and differences in green.

The powers of two from the previous slide with questions alongside that use index notation.

A power table, annotated in several colours with patterns that students had spotted. Each column in the table contains powers of a different base.

A power table that has lots of arrows drawn on. These are the remnants of working from a number of different questions which have now been erased. 3 questions are currently shown: 16^4, 16^(½) and 81^(¾)

Started indices in Y8 #MathsToday.

Our previous topic was sequences, so we began by comparing two that I’d made in a spreadsheet.

And then we moved onto power tables, using the jumps method that I stole from @blatherwicksam.bsky.social. By the end of the lesson they were using fractional powers!

Y8 #MathsToday: we extended the tables downwards, and they pretty quickly realised they could use the numbers they could see in order to evaluate these. We even managed negative fractional indices!

Honestly this way of teaching indices is a game changer. Thanks @blatherwicksam.bsky.social

I love the power tables, hadn’t seen them before @blatherwicksam.bsky.social’s posts

I’ve always taught surds in one unit, but I like the thought of breaking it up and having the complex stuff later. Lots to think about!