Agreed. And there are definitely better. But as far as I am aware not free which makes it a game changer IMO. The problem is the paid models like Claude do not store your questions/responses/code for future potential training unless you opt in. Gemini does, so we need to be careful what we feed it!

Google Gemini CLI is a game changer. Free, with ridiculous context memory and generous memory

But (warning)…
Read the T&C. github.com/google-gemin...
If using the free model, they store your questions, responses and code for training (think env files!)

Use. But use with caution ⛔️

Spring Statement: How did Rachel Reeves make her sums add up? BBC Verify's Ben Chu looks at how the Chancellor managed to stick to her fiscal rules in the Spring Statement, despite a jump in borrowing costs for the Government.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/... I know you are a fan of these 😂 @themathsbazaar.bsky.social

Project #reddwarf talkie toaster update. Running well on #raspberrypi with #ollama #llama3.2. Speech recognition and TTS currently online, but I do have a (less accurate) offline version too. Next job is to hollow out the innards of an old toaster! 🍞

Anybody like any toast???

Happy Spring Point of Inflection Day!

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

Why? Did they need too much direction?

I remember playing under a killing moon in the PC section of a branch of Staples. Blew my mind. Had to nag my parents hard to upgrade the home computer for that one. 8 discs it came on!

Never seen this method before. I think I like it!

Great idea for core maths teachers!

Reasonable to suggest it rounds up to eating 4 cakes in that case then right?

A revision activity for Core Pure Further #ALevelMaths.
Any suggestions for any more?

A letter on Department for Education headed paper Sanctuary Buildings 20 Great Smith Street London SW1P 3BT tel: 0370 000 2288 www.education.gov.uk/contactus/dfe Department for Education Catherine McKinnell MP Minister for School Standards 2025-0004331 Emma Hardy MP By email: emma.hardy.mp@parliament.uk Your ref: EH30248 3 March 2025 Dear Emma, Thank you for your correspondence of 5 February, on behalf of your constituent, Ms Emily Rae of [address redacted], regarding the Advanced Mathematics Support Programme (AMSP). The department remains committed to ensuring all children and young people have a strong foundation in mathematics to thrive in the modern economy, regardless of background and socioeconomic status. The AMSP remains a government funded programme that continues to positively impact mathematics education across England. The department is aware of sector concerns regarding the reductions made to the AMSP funding and is examining alternative options to support provision for advanced mathematics. The department continues to work with the AMSP supplier, Mathematics Education Innovation, to ensure high-quality professional development continues and support remains available to schools and colleges to continue rising standards in level 3 mathematics. Support also includes alternative tuition directly to level 3 further mathematics students, in cases where it either is not offered or can no longer be offered by their school or college. More information and updates on how the AMSP can support schools and colleges is available on the AMSP website at: tinyurl.com/V849XKW5. Thank you for writing on this important matter. Yours, Catherine McKinnell MP Minister for School Standard

Re: AMSP funding.
I wrote to my MP expressing concerns about the cuts to AMSP funding; she wrote to the DfE, and this is the reply she has forwarded on to me.
#ALevelMaths

😂😂😂 I thought the same ➕➕➕🟰🟰🟰

The government's approach to advanced maths doesn't add up DfE is doing a number on AI-powered growth by cutting funds for advanced maths support

Hopefully some good news for the AMSP…

schoolsweek.co.uk/government-m...

Meet Isaac 😍 #cupra

Teacher pension rates increase to maintain scheme sustainability
With the third pay increase on the way, check which band you belong to
The bands are also rising, all by 1.7%, to help offset the effect of the pay increases

Random sample from a list in Desmos

Wow! @desmos.com now has a new feature that if you take a random sample it shows you the values

Like this

Lol 2/5

given that god is infinite and that the universe is also infinite , would you like a toasted tea cake ALT: given that god is infinite and that the universe is also infinite , would you like a toasted tea cake

Project talkie toaster update:

Finally got around to starting this using an offline LLM

The code is almost ready, just need to stop it getting into an endless loop listening to its own responses and answering itself

Stack
Raspberry pi 5 8gb
Deepspeech
OLLAMA with llama 3
Coqui TTS

I know a teacher who would genuinely dish out a penance homework task for something like that 🤣

Ofsted.

-Give all schools 3 targets following every inspection
-Assign an officer post inspection to collaborate as a case worker in a supportive manner to help schools attain
-It will be obvious how good the school is to the general public due to the nature of the targets

Solved it

a man in a red shirt sits in front of a toaster that says " to be extremely crappy to each other " ALT: a man in a red shirt sits in front of a toaster that says " to be extremely crappy to each other "

Lightbulb moment… found out it is possible to install a LLM chatbot onto a raspberry pi and run completely offline. There is only one thing for it…

✅offline speech recognition
✅local LLM
✅TTS

Build a fully functional talkie toaster from red dwarf

Very sad news about the AMSP today 😢

Without a doubt the some of the most impactful CPD I have ever been part of has come from them

TFM, Core maths, and subject leader network meetings

Thank you to all involved over the years. You really made a difference to maths education 👏

Using APIs & Google Sheets To Assess Fantasy Premier League Prospects I’m a keen FPL player, and use Fantasy Premier League’s API and Google Sheets to make it easy to analyze player data.

The premier league fantasy football has an API that gives some really cool data. Best consumed with a programming language like python but this guide gets it into google sheets towardsdatascience.com/using-apis-g...

Ha! And me. Mayfield high and T grids! I don’t miss GCSE coursework

Teaching Hub Welcome to the Our World in Data Teaching Hub. Here you find information on how to use our work in teaching — and some materials we designed for teaching purposes.

ourworldindata.org/teaching this is not a bad place to look, and remember there is always mayfield high!

Very nice

A worthwhile proof by induction 😄

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