In #mathstoday I read out the short story Sum by David Eagleman about spending your afterlife living your life again divided into categories like spending months in the shower

Humble brag about big printing budgets?

Picture of five dice in a cabinet

Dice at the British museum

Understand - How Reading Made Us - 1. How Reading Made Our Brains - BBC Sounds Did learning to read rewire your brain? With James Marriott.

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A Circle Of Strangers by Orla Owen.

Some Friday news…

Thrilled to announce that my new book ‘A Circle Of Strangers’ will be published by the brilliant @ofmooseandmen.bsky.social in Spring 2027 💙📚💙

Set in West Wales, it’s the sequel to ‘Christ On A Bike’ that also works as a stand alone novel. Let’s go 💃🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿📚🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿💃

#ACOS #books #booksky

Ooh this has made my Friday

Is being a member of four book clubs too many?

Exercise book in a folder. Heavy to carry a class set to a different building though

In #mathstoday we worked out how many cats would fit in our classroom as a starter. This was with my functional maths animal group. #femaths

Yes I'd not seen a couple of them before. Love discovering new ways at looking at GCSE

In #mathstoday I used these animations to show a few different area of trapezium proofs to GCSE maths resit group bossmaths.com/g16d/ #femathschat

The 2026 BookTempter’s TBR Challenge — Runalong The Shelves Hellooo!! Occasionally I am weirdly accused of just wanting to make your TBR piles creak but deep down I just want to help! To Be Read Piles and reading are said to be different hobbies but I say we ...

I challenge you! Too many books in your TBR? Fear not I a kindly Womble Booktempter have my annual TBR Challenge to help you read great books and have some space on the shelves www.runalongtheshelves.net/blog/2025/12...

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An XKCD comic in the usual black outline cartoon style on a white background. [A banner is hanging from the ceiling with a large line of text above a smaller one:] Mathematical society 2025 meeting [Below the banner there are four people, three of them are standing close together to the left with Hairbun leftmost addressing Cueball and Megan who is looking at her. Ponytail is standing to the far right next to a whiteboard, and is using a marker to circle in the last number on the board.] Hairbun: Any other new developments from the year to cover before we wrap? Cueball: Oh, the teens picked a new funny number. Megan: Aww, I'm glad to hear they're still doing that. Ponytail: I'll add it to the list. [The board contains two columns of numbers, with the first having a text behind it, thus covering both columns. The last number is the new one circled in by Ponytail. From top in reading order they are:] 23 (skidoo!) 42 1,337 69 58,008 420 6 7

Accurate 😅 (although they missed 21, which was the scourge of my early teaching career!)
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John Finnemore Shop All orders placed before 15th December will arrive before Christmas

You can buy 'The Researcher's First Murder' by John Finnemore directly from him (he's had to pay for a storage unit to keep them all in). Unbound made sure it couldn't sell last Christmas, let's make it a hit for this one: johnfinnemoreshop.com/shop

In #mathstoday my functional maths group played nrich.maths.org/problems/mat... and then did 100 square modern art. Then we finished off with day 2 of mscroggs advent calendar #FEMaths

Ah thank you. That's the bit my brain was missing. I'm sure my level 1 functional skills class would take my word for it but I felt I lacked integrity

What fraction of this is shaded? Can we assume the triangles are all the same area?

Maths lesson material

In #MathsToday we learnt how to play the paper and pen game Blackhole on mini whiteboards #FEMaths

Happy/Merry/Blessed Halloween/Samhain/Spooky Season to all who celebrate!

Big day for FE maths teachers. I wonder what's next?

Teaching with a cold is tough. Being observed twice in one day with a cold even harder

In #MathsToday we constructed penrose triangles using an old SMP instruction page in Functional maths and GCSE resit #FEMaths

Storyville - The Librarians A Storyville documentary that explores how librarians across the US are risking their safety to defend free speech as book bans and censorship threaten democracy from within.

A must watch: Storyville, The Librarians: www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m002kkmj via @bbciplayer

In #MathsToday I used the oldie but a goodie Numberphile chicken nugget video. Went down well with Functional skills level 1 learners near the end of their two hour lesson followed by the Nrich coin problem #FEMaths

Cracking Finnish film on iPlayer called Fallen Leaves. Very funny and sweet. Highly recommend

In #mathstoday I used the missing numbers column addition and subtraction sheet from this old gem www.cleavebooks.co.uk/trol/ #FEMaths

Clues by Sam A daily logic puzzle where you deduce who are criminals and who are innocent!

I solved the daily Clues by Sam (Sep 22nd 2025) in less than 10 minutes
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Delivering inset on how to embed maths into animal care to animal care lecturers. Any ideas? #mathschat #femaths