The democratisation of resource creation How AI has changed the game, and why it is a good thing

Really interesting article from Craig Barton which echoes some of my own thoughts too about use of AI for maths resource creation and learning
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This was on a local company's website, selling firewood
A lot of "interesting" maths in here to unpack! Stick this on the board and see what students notice.

That actually does explain a lot of things - thanks Graham

Yeah I agree to be honest I don't think I have any issue with the actions they took, but I am more intrigued as to why they needed to withdraw the original paper 2. We will probably never know (officially).

Is it known why the backup paper was used? Was it leaked?

I used to make "slides" in one note, e.g. using a subpage per worked example. And you could have collapsible pages with subpages in them. (At least I think thats the right terminology - been a while)

As of yesterday, as Liverpool won the league, the list of Premier League winning teams now forms a Fibonacci sequence 😎

This does actually look good to be fair

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Thats what C grade stands for now; Crow Standard

"when will I ever need this sir"
"I don't know but fucking crows can do this so maybe just get on with it"

I found the most incredible graph on the other site

When we were on PGCE we had vocal and body language training from a Drama teacher at the school. What they said and taught was undoubtedly right, but I hated every second of it 😆

happy friday

Happy Spring Point of Inflection Day!

Download the powerpoint from www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/xxr8n...

Mine too - used to set some of my classes with the challenge to locate me in the Year 11 photos by reception!

Picture asking students to use cos10 = p to express several other trig ratios in terms of p

In #ALevelMaths #MathsToday (yesterday actually) we started with this lovely activity that someone shared at the maths conference last year. We went on to look at geometric and matrix proofs of the addition formulae.

I keep coming back to the idea that we should make re-taking a year a common strategy to help students
Do it a lot in sixth forms where students retake year 12 and often works really well. Why not let a student retake say year 9 to set them up with a far better foundation for GCSE?

The calendar effect always intrigues me. The lottery of birth month has such a huge impact. Born in August, rather than September? Likely to do significantly worse because of how our school system works.

A method of factorising

At #mathsconf37 @mathsjem.bsky.social did a ‘fun with factorising’ session and taught us this fun way of factorising. I came home and showed my year 11 son, he did the second one and liked the new (well, very old!) method! Thanks Jo! #MathsToday

the one with the fish is great - lovely animations

Here's Tony Hawk doing the 5π

Are you saying you don't agree with it or just that its exaggerated?

It does seem to say its budget is being reduced rather than shut down entirely, but will see what that actually means

Shortage subject, and a hard subject to upskill people for. Shooting themselves in the foot here I think

This is very very bad.

In #MathsToday we were slowly building up to harder Trig Modelling with Y13s by focusing on simpler and then increasingly difficult cases #ALevelMaths

Love a completion table for A Level Maths so trying to make more this year at www.chelekmaths.com

Loads of great replies - just wanted to chip in and say I find this sort of thing the hardest of anything in CP1 😄

A screenshot of the folder with the files in. There are files for 5 sessions: TMUA, MAT, STEP, PAT and ESAT, with handouts and answers to each.

Every year in the spring term, I run a series of information sessions for our first year (year 12) students on the main STEM admissions tests (TMUA, MAT, STEP, PAT, and ESAT)

Sharing my slides for the 2025 sessions in case they're useful for anyone 😊

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Pizza slices arranged with the crusts alternating so they fit in my air fryer

“When will I use maths in real life?”