CantabKitty
@cantabkitty.bsky.social
Maths teacher
UK
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UK
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CantabKitty
@cantabkitty.bsky.social
· Nov 16
just follow everyone I'm following (and block everyone I've blocked)
Best advice for maths teachers newly joining here
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Squaring the circle
February 13, 2026 at 9:26 PM
Squaring the circle
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How quickly can you build a revision worksheet in www.mrhardymaths.co.uk?
February 12, 2026 at 8:54 PM
How quickly can you build a revision worksheet in www.mrhardymaths.co.uk?
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Why do AI company logos all look like buttholes? Warning: you can't unsee it
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February 12, 2026 at 7:55 PM
Why do AI company logos all look like buttholes? Warning: you can't unsee it
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Ooh, it appears the next book on the @chalkdustmag book club's hitlist is a cheeky little number that I'm fairly well-acquainted with: https://chalkdustmagazine.com/bookclub/
Pop math book club
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Do you have lots of unread pop-math books on your shelves? Would you like to read more pop-math books? Join us at a new **monthly online book club** , held on the **last Tuesday of the month at 6:30pm**. Fill in this form to express your interest!
**Next meeting: 31st March 6:30pm (GMT)** discussing **The Mathematicians’ Library** by **Thomas K. Briggs**.
If you have a book that you would like to read you can nominate it (you can nominate as many as you like!).
The book for the month will be chosen **three months in advance**. This is to allow people to find a copy (reserve one at your local library, scour charity shops, buy from a good bookstore etc) and read it.
The first meeting will be held on **Tuesday 28th October 2025 at 6:30pm** discussing **Is Maths Real?** by **Eugenia Cheng**.
The second meeting will be held on **Tuesday 25th November 2025 at 6:30pm** discussing **Humble Pi** by **Matt Parker**.
(There will be no December meeting – the third meeting will be in January).
The third meeting will be held on **Tuesday 27th January 2026** at 6:30pm discussing **Another fine math you’ve got me into…** by **Ian Stewart**.
(There will be no February meeting – the fourth meeting will be in March).
The fourth meeting will be held on **Tuesday 31st March 2026** at 6:30pm discussing **The Mathematicians’ Library: The Books That Unlocked the Power of Numbers** by **Thomas K. Briggs**.
The fifth meeting will be held on **Tuesday 28th April 2026** at 6:30pm discussing **The Simpsons and their mathematical secrets** by **Simon Singh**.
The monthly meetings will be hosted on Zoom. After signing up to the book club, you will receive the link for the meetings.
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Which is best?
* ### Significant figures: Julia Robinson
Ashleigh Ratcliffe tells the story of another hidden woman in mathematics.
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Potatoes, mugs and doughnuts with Ashleigh Ratcliffe.
* ### In conversation with Robin Wilson
Ashleigh Wilcox and Ellen Jolley chat to the professor and maths communicator about books, the Open University and music
* ### On the cover: Spirographs
Ashleigh Wilcox, Jenny Power and Rachel Evans show you how to draw pretty pictures
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Ashleigh Wilcox looks for integer solutions to the Markov equation
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February 11, 2026 at 10:25 PM
Ooh, it appears the next book on the @chalkdustmag book club's hitlist is a cheeky little number that I'm fairly well-acquainted with: https://chalkdustmagazine.com/bookclub/
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Over on threads someone just use ai;dr and we all need to adopt that right quick
February 11, 2026 at 7:56 PM
Over on threads someone just use ai;dr and we all need to adopt that right quick
Me: omg it costs HOW MUCH to do an abrsm exam nowadays????!!!
Also me: *downloads the new 2026 woodwinds syllabus*
Also me: *downloads the new 2026 woodwinds syllabus*
February 11, 2026 at 6:57 PM
Me: omg it costs HOW MUCH to do an abrsm exam nowadays????!!!
Also me: *downloads the new 2026 woodwinds syllabus*
Also me: *downloads the new 2026 woodwinds syllabus*
"Why are school so strict? When you're in the real world it won't matter if you're a little late or you don't have your equipment"
February 10, 2026 at 5:05 PM
"Why are school so strict? When you're in the real world it won't matter if you're a little late or you don't have your equipment"
Dear @mscroggs.co.uk
I would like to put the @happyapproxday.bsky.social date on the board in my classroom but we start school at 8.30am. Please would you consider (just for me) asking your bot to post an hour earlier? I would appreciate it, and (some of) my students would be entertained
I would like to put the @happyapproxday.bsky.social date on the board in my classroom but we start school at 8.30am. Please would you consider (just for me) asking your bot to post an hour earlier? I would appreciate it, and (some of) my students would be entertained
February 10, 2026 at 9:36 AM
Dear @mscroggs.co.uk
I would like to put the @happyapproxday.bsky.social date on the board in my classroom but we start school at 8.30am. Please would you consider (just for me) asking your bot to post an hour earlier? I would appreciate it, and (some of) my students would be entertained
I would like to put the @happyapproxday.bsky.social date on the board in my classroom but we start school at 8.30am. Please would you consider (just for me) asking your bot to post an hour earlier? I would appreciate it, and (some of) my students would be entertained
someone earlier was asking for a worksheet with mixed integrations including the further maths ones, but I didn't bookmark it properly. Any tips?? Would like eg. hyperbolics and inverse trig mixed in with FM partial fracs and other tricky things from AL.
Please no suggestions to use genAI
Please no suggestions to use genAI
February 10, 2026 at 9:04 AM
someone earlier was asking for a worksheet with mixed integrations including the further maths ones, but I didn't bookmark it properly. Any tips?? Would like eg. hyperbolics and inverse trig mixed in with FM partial fracs and other tricky things from AL.
Please no suggestions to use genAI
Please no suggestions to use genAI
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Air Canada I understand we’re approaching Valentine’s Day but I simply don’t think an airline should advertise its sales with “fares worth falling for”
February 9, 2026 at 3:11 PM
Air Canada I understand we’re approaching Valentine’s Day but I simply don’t think an airline should advertise its sales with “fares worth falling for”
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Historians of mathematics now believe that the divinatory practice of gematria dates back to ancient Assyria, where it was developed by maths students to persuade themselves that they had passed the module on the basis of the continuous assessment.
February 9, 2026 at 1:13 PM
Historians of mathematics now believe that the divinatory practice of gematria dates back to ancient Assyria, where it was developed by maths students to persuade themselves that they had passed the module on the basis of the continuous assessment.
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I'm convinced AI is our generation's radium - a discovery with genuinely useful applications in specific, controlled circumstances that we stupidly put in everything from kid's toys to toothpaste until we realised the harm far too late where future generations will ask if we were out of our minds.
February 8, 2026 at 10:23 PM
I'm convinced AI is our generation's radium - a discovery with genuinely useful applications in specific, controlled circumstances that we stupidly put in everything from kid's toys to toothpaste until we realised the harm far too late where future generations will ask if we were out of our minds.
Turns out he's on tour this year, and you know what, I think I might go
My latest audiobook/book recommendation. Pleasant speaking voice, lovely to listen to. only about 7hrs of an audiobook.
February 8, 2026 at 6:29 PM
Turns out he's on tour this year, and you know what, I think I might go
I tried to explain this to so many "I'm too intelligent to engage in small talk" bros when I was at uni. (I did engineering, there were a LOT of them)
leveled up with this explanation, cos as an autistic person i pride myself on reacting appropriately to animals, to signal harmlessness, so why wouldn't i want to do this for human animals?
never occurred to me to stop listening to the words and instead recognise the BEHAVIOUR.
never occurred to me to stop listening to the words and instead recognise the BEHAVIOUR.
February 8, 2026 at 5:53 PM
I tried to explain this to so many "I'm too intelligent to engage in small talk" bros when I was at uni. (I did engineering, there were a LOT of them)
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one of the greatest human triumphs of my lifetime is the relentless, unceasing, heroic effort by DECADES' worth of doctors and scientists to find a cure for a disease much of the world didn't take seriously for years because it predominantly affected a community they thought kinda deserved it
Just because good news is worth celebrating:
There is now a Prep medication that is an *every six month* injection.
HIV has, effectively, a vaccination.
There is now a Prep medication that is an *every six month* injection.
HIV has, effectively, a vaccination.
February 7, 2026 at 1:37 AM
one of the greatest human triumphs of my lifetime is the relentless, unceasing, heroic effort by DECADES' worth of doctors and scientists to find a cure for a disease much of the world didn't take seriously for years because it predominantly affected a community they thought kinda deserved it
Chatting after today's singing and someone asked me "is this your first time here?"
I've been coming to this every year for the past 10 years 🤣🤣🤣 and this event is only 10 years old
I've been coming to this every year for the past 10 years 🤣🤣🤣 and this event is only 10 years old
February 7, 2026 at 3:56 PM
Chatting after today's singing and someone asked me "is this your first time here?"
I've been coming to this every year for the past 10 years 🤣🤣🤣 and this event is only 10 years old
I've been coming to this every year for the past 10 years 🤣🤣🤣 and this event is only 10 years old
If you force traditional church choirs to sing this stuff then don't complain when we do this 🤣
February 7, 2026 at 1:52 PM
If you force traditional church choirs to sing this stuff then don't complain when we do this 🤣
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My latest audiobook/book recommendation. Pleasant speaking voice, lovely to listen to. only about 7hrs of an audiobook.
February 7, 2026 at 12:47 PM
My latest audiobook/book recommendation. Pleasant speaking voice, lovely to listen to. only about 7hrs of an audiobook.
You know how many warning signs come about after A Particular Incident...
February 7, 2026 at 11:48 AM
You know how many warning signs come about after A Particular Incident...
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Every instance of "AI democratizes the arts, you're classist and ableist and a gatekeeper for trying to stop it" is a slap in the face to the literally centuries of poor, disabled people making art on the margins and a crass lie in service of a machine that strips down and regurgitates dreams
February 6, 2026 at 5:36 PM
Every instance of "AI democratizes the arts, you're classist and ableist and a gatekeeper for trying to stop it" is a slap in the face to the literally centuries of poor, disabled people making art on the margins and a crass lie in service of a machine that strips down and regurgitates dreams