Mr Payne

Made a new Summer Quiz. On sale on my TES page shortly. £2 or less for an nice lesson as classes reach the end of term this year. Fun, easy and hopefully memorable 🙂 tes.com/teaching-resou… #teaching #edutwitter #endofterm #summer

@TickTockMaths Hey, this resource looks really neat, I like the idea. Is it on your website? Cannot find it.

Sometimes my pupils could do with a bit of a change of pace. So I change their questions into a codebreaker.

@Hardymatt0 @MathsladyScott You say stupid, but this was reality. A reality I was very happy with in my own schooling, before mini whiteboards and ipsds were a thing. It was all written in your exercise book.

This is so stupid. When you practice guitar or football or any other skill, you don't require a videotape of every single moment to refer back to. The practice is making changes in your brain. More practice = more long term changes. If I ask you what 6x4 is, you hopefully don't need to look it up in a bok. The answer is imprinted in your brain.

I am not an advocate of mini whiteboards as they do not hold the story of the young person's learning and achievement. I'm for writing in exercise books where progress is visible and can be praised. 🤔😀

@TansuYegen Is this on YouTube please?

Geometry...

@adamboxer1 Never had an issue with formula triangles. I like them. Remember where one letter goes and you have 3 formulae you can derive.

I'm fine with government not requiring equation memorisation but I'd prefer it if they criminalised formula triangles Much bigger fish that needs frying

@MartinSLewis All wages go into joint account from which shared bills come out. We also have an allowance sent from it to our personal accounts each month to spend on what we fancy. Highly recommend this approach.

TELL US: Couples, how do you manage money between you? Do you have kitchen table finance meetings – how often? Do you have joint or separate accounts and why? Please reply here, like your faves, and pod producer Simon will collate some to read out.

@adamboxer1 @Mr_Raichura Just allows for more interesting questions to be developed which would be a good thing. Rather than testing if they've memorised a formula, test how well they can use it in differing contexts.

@Mr_Raichura I actually dont mind this too much, its zero sum and theres more important things to have fluency on. Students spend hours learning them obh when they could do drill instead

Another decision that will warp teaching for the worse. Leaders & teachers: if you’re aiming for excellence, caution against allowing pupils to use equation sheets until the very end. Having a high degree of fluency has huge benefits. Caveat: teaching must be strong!

@LFK_TeachEdu PS keep trying.

@LFK_TeachEdu Oddly for my current job (although it's changed a lot since) in FE as a maths teacher we didn't do any teaching as part of the interview, just had to show planning for a what we would teach for a given topic and class level and discuss it. I think this approach has merits.

@alicekeeler I use chatgpt to create questions for me to use in class plenty, effectively 'worksheet' generating. BUT I consider what it gives me, it's never what I want first time. But with tweaks it's definitely quicker than writing them out myself most of the time.

MATH IS ABOUT PATTERN FINDING! What we don't need is AI math worksheet generators. There are tons of math worksheets already out there... these are not making the world a better place and definitely not helping students love math. If the AI math tool doesn't help you implement the 8 mathematical practices, it is not standards aligned and it's a waste of advanced technology. #MathChat #TeacherTech

@englishspecial Ah I see. Yeah that's a poor decision I think.

@Tom_does_maths 2:2 in unrelated gets full 25k bursary and allowed on any course. 3rds in specific subject get no bursary and are shut out from most courses across the country.

👀Secondary teachers👀 You have a choice to put someone on a teacher education programme for your subject. 🤜Candidate A has an A level and a 3rd class degree in your subject. 🤜Candidate B has an A level in your subject and a 2:2 in an unrelated subject. Your pick?

@englishspecial ... that counted, I'm pretty sure I had a panic attack. The first I'd ever had, and therefore not a clue of how to deal with it. The next two years were spent making up for that exam series.

@englishspecial Obviously this shouldn't be the deciding factor. I would hope the degree they each hold is enough to get them an interview, otherwise what was the point in university. I got a 2:2, I'm not sure it was a great representation of my ability, but in my first set of exams...

@thecavemommy Yeah I relate it to English when my students ask. I ask them "if I don't dislike chocolate, do I like chocolate?". See how the two negatives make a positive?

I’ve literally had math geniuses try to explain to me how a negative times a negative equals a positive, and I still don’t get it It doesn’t. If you have nothing, and then more nothing, you don’t have something. You have nothing Math is a psyop!

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This is my contribution for teaching A-level Maths. No sign up, no subscription, absolutely free. Pls share and repost. Thousands of questions with video and GeoGebra solutions. Pls share and repost. sites.google.com/view/mathemati…

The PixiMaths Christmaths Quiz is back! Now with a further maths version, there are 6 quizzes to choose from 🎄🎅 piximaths.co.uk/festive-activi…

Christmas themed maths papers - on TES tes.com/teaching-resou…

@redgierob @tes Generally I think TES do a good job considering the amount of resources being uploaded. But I've also had issues in the past with them and copyright.