Mel Murray

@suffolkmaths @mrsouthernmaths @Whitehughes @Ridermeister Yes, for FM the optional components we deliver are Further Stats 1 & Decision 1. 4 teachers involved overall, maths with a 5/5 split, FM with a 7/3 split per fortnight. Let me know if you want any info :-)

@catrionateaches Hi, are your pedagogy meetings through your hub? Thank you in advance.

A fun question pair from tonight's A Level Pedagogy meeting. My instinct for Q1 was to draw a graph, so I decided to go for something different for Q2. I then tried to come up with other pairs of questions like this. It's hard! I'd love to see other people's attempts...

@Miss_M_Maths @blatherwick_sam For Trig alternative form, you can consider asking: is that they only version you could use? e.g. if you steer them to R cos (x - a) initially. Get them to try other forms and link to transformations of graphs. Get them to check graph equivalence with technology. Hope this helps.

@blatherwick_sam Oh sorry. Radians, arcs, sectors, segments, trig equations, identities, double angle

Okay another question from me... Stretch / Support (differentiation, whatever you want to call it) when teaching A Level classes that are essentially mixed attainment. Any good blogs I can read? Anyone doing something interesting / good?

@CharlotteONx @mathsjem @missradders @MathsNot @StudyMaths @KatharinePeace Mathsbox is pretty good for AS and A-level skills checks too if your school has a subscription.

First teacher tweet. Wondering where I can get some diagnostic/afl questions for AS& A-Level maths. Can anyone point me in a direction please? Thank you 🤓 @mathsjem @missradders @MathsNot @StudyMaths @KatharinePeace

@TLMaths @mrsouthernmaths @mrbartonmaths @mathsjem All advice gratefully received.

@M_D_Murray @mrsouthernmaths @mrbartonmaths @mathsjem Just looking at the Q. Are you talking about teaching modelling with quadratics explicitly?

Doing some analysis of student scripts from Edexcel A-level maths 2023. I'm wondering how others teach "inspection", i.e. max, mins. Paper 1, q13 involved a quadratic and height. Thanks in advance! @TLMaths @mrsouthernmaths @mrbartonmaths @mathsjem

@TLMaths @mrsouthernmaths @mrbartonmaths @mathsjem Not necessarily. Could also be in relation to modulus or trig models, perhaps in the harmonic form, the types seen at AS and A-level. When I teach modelling for any topic, I say "what's the most this can be? what's the least?" but I don't think I'm being very effective.

@Whitehughes Thank you! mmurray@st-hildas.co.uk

@Whitehughes I've also had a go. Like my students said it started off relatively straightforward then seemed to get markedly harder at question 5. Have you posted your solutions so I can check mine? Definitely trust yours over mine :-)

@Ridermeister @UKMathsTrust Sorry, Tom. I've just turned on accept messages from anyone. Could you try again when it suits you? Thank you.

@Ridermeister @UKMathsTrust Yes I'd be interested. I'm our UKMT coordinator at school :-)

@MisterRMaths @mathsjem IS this any use? padlet.com/catherine_vans…

Please help! Any idea of a website that gives photographs that can be used for mathematical prompts (particularly for statistics) @mathsjem

@1716Vinny Finished Y13 FM before Easter, hurrah! Y13 Maths still have last topic in mechanics with one teacher, and numeric methods & the trapezium rule with me. The remaining weeks will be very disrupted but hope to fit in good revision lessons. 🤞

To all Key stage 5 maths leads or HoDs. Have you finished teaching the A level spec. And if you have when did you finish and If not, when do you plan on finishing?

@ECR_Maths Big-M has the same appeal for me in linear programming 🤓 I'm sure there's loads of others!

I've taken to calling the Binary Operations topic in A Level Further Maths "Binary Ops", and in my head it now sounds like a cool secret mission that I have to complete. Trying to think of other areas of the curriculum that sound cooler than they actually are 🤔😆

@tm_maths As it's only asking for an estimate 200/40 = 5, -1 for spaces or punctuation marks, gives 4 letters per word approx. If this is on a calc paper, for (b) (52 / 72) * 60 = 43.3, so presumably could argue it's about the same word length, or the words might be slightly shorter.

I'm stuck on this question. Could someone help?

@mathladyhazel So true.. except in my day the lecturer had filled 3 floor to ceiling black boards and been through 2 alphabets before declaring "therefore phi equals 3" as a finale. I was lost.

@HonestlyUk @mathsjem Have you asked your 6th form team which universities they're referring to? I've never heard of this but can see that if the course is medicine or art, Maths + FM aren't necessarily going to help.

Another question from me - I’m planning a Sixth Form Open Evening and I know things may have changed since I last taught FM: When students do A Level Further Maths at your school, are they doing it as one of three A levels? Or is FM a fourth A level?

@ers_rog @Sheena2907 same!

I'm about to teach logs. This is your yearly reminder not to pronounce ln as "lun"

@LivMathsSchool Were they discussing 3D transformations by any chance?

Alumnus Joe visited school and met with Head of Physics Aurora. Joe is currently studying Physics at the University of Liverpool. It was great to catch up. #Alumni #LivUni #SixthForm #Physics

@JJewellmaths @mathsjem @Just_Maths @mrbartonmaths I was in the same position 3 years ago. We're with Edexcel, and for FM we opted for Decision 1 and Further Stats 1. We have to parallel teach FM alongside A-level Maths so there'd lots of dependencies. Happy to share our teaching schedule / SOW.

My school is starting teaching A - Level maths and further maths for the first time next year. I’m looking for inspiration from some sow. Can anyone help out? Anything would be massive appreciated!! @mathsjem @Just_Maths @mrbartonmaths