You have one hour to select six out of the following eight unseen problems to work on and solve by yourself is hardly how things work in real life settings.

‘Exam-obsessed’ schools leave pupils unready for work, Alan Milburn says Former minister leading review into young people and work cites survey showing most teachers decry lack of ‘soft skills’

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All dates formed from equilateral triangles on isometric paper.

Can all digits be formed in this way?

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This is wonderful news. The UK has officially signed up to rejoin the EU’s Erasmus+ scheme from 2027

It means students, apprentices and young people will be able to study and work across Europe 👏

So much for leadership modelling the expected behaviours of those they lead. In any business setting he would be sacked by the board.

It reminds me of a challenge to a class of 11 yr olds which I called VIEWS.

I purposefully used the term oblong to describe a non-square rectangle.

Proof positive that planet Earth is round.

I always thought that prayer was an act of subjugation to the believer's God. Isn't that personal subjugation the complete opposite of domination?

Why pick on the Catholics?

I will be concluding my celebration of pi-day with a re-enactment of Comte de Buffon's 1777 needle experiment. Cocktail sticks and lined paper are prepared.

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I think there is a difference between re-membering and memorising.

PM's post-G&D by-election commitment to do more of what he is already doing too much of does not bode well for Labour.

Once all schools are in MATs it takes little to permit profit making. Then the whole system can be sold off. Similar to energy.
It's teeing up the system for privatisation.
I have a good clue who the bidders will be. Said as much 15 years ago.
Gove has re-entered GOVErnment.

Agree. @joboaler.bsky.social in Math-ish refers to "getting a sense of" before "making sense of".

Got to be careful with language.
An inclusion base in a school, when a school itself should be a base for inclusion, could be misinterpreted.

Jules Verne’s dystopia was a world without humanities. Do... When arts education is dismissed as a waste of time it damages us as a society. The focus of learning is not just to enrich our economy but also to enrich our souls

Thinking of the curriculum and assessment review.....

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There's something special about DIY in maths. After all, we all have to construct our own idiosyncratic maps of understanding.
I remember my group using straws & pipe cleaners to construct a 3D representation of a hyperparallelopiped.
Over 50 years ago!

The expanding universe of mathematical knowledge is the outcome of human endeavour.

A mathematics curriculum should recognise and celebrate this.

Learning to think & work mathematically is a precondition to the acqusition of mathematical skills and knowledge

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Exactly.
Education is an investment not consumer good.
It's funding should reflect that.

Good luck with the webinar.
As a start, please help your audience understand the difference between description and definition!

Imo fuzzy language is often associated with fuzzy concept.

An example of one of many irritants is: find the area of a circle.

I think I might be agreeing with you!

I believe there is a stage of "getting a sense of" a concept which precedes and enables "making sense of" that concept.

The transition is assisted by moving from an informal language of description to the technical language of definition.

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Charades with teachers.
Peg-a-doggy

And us oldies recall Galbraith's argument on the futility of a model of growth driven by stimulating demand and neglecting basic needs.

I think a reason might be in your headline:
....resistance from the schools THEY are trying to turn around......

School 'improvement' can be effected only by those within. However, it can be facilitated by careful external assistance.

But here is a wonderful example of how assessment can enrich learning and teaching..