Brendan Keegan
@brendankeegan.bsky.social
Maths HOF in Leicester. Saffa in the UK.
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It's that time of year again - your annual reminder that if you're a Maths teacher and looking for suitable resources for your classes across KS3 to KS5 then do check out www.draustinmaths.com. The site is five years old this week 🎉🎉 and in that time it's amassed over 1000 resources! 1/3
August 31, 2025 at 1:32 PM
It's that time of year again - your annual reminder that if you're a Maths teacher and looking for suitable resources for your classes across KS3 to KS5 then do check out www.draustinmaths.com. The site is five years old this week 🎉🎉 and in that time it's amassed over 1000 resources! 1/3
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It's exceptionally hard for people to drop beliefs once they've become a core part of their identity. It's why it's quite valuable for democracies to have a large pool of basically apathetic voters (but who will vote...)
incredible collection of sentences www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
July 15, 2025 at 10:48 AM
It's exceptionally hard for people to drop beliefs once they've become a core part of their identity. It's why it's quite valuable for democracies to have a large pool of basically apathetic voters (but who will vote...)
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A #MathsToday catch-up post: here are some of the things I’ve done this week.
Y10 learned about recurring decimals, so I used this Don Steward task (reformatted to remove fractional indices). I didn’t realise how nice the answers would be! donsteward.blogspot.com/2017/02/recu...
Y10 learned about recurring decimals, so I used this Don Steward task (reformatted to remove fractional indices). I didn’t realise how nice the answers would be! donsteward.blogspot.com/2017/02/recu...
July 5, 2025 at 2:10 PM
A #MathsToday catch-up post: here are some of the things I’ve done this week.
Y10 learned about recurring decimals, so I used this Don Steward task (reformatted to remove fractional indices). I didn’t realise how nice the answers would be! donsteward.blogspot.com/2017/02/recu...
Y10 learned about recurring decimals, so I used this Don Steward task (reformatted to remove fractional indices). I didn’t realise how nice the answers would be! donsteward.blogspot.com/2017/02/recu...
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🙌 Another 3 brand new lessons just published @DrFrostMaths.bsky.social 🙌
🟣 Volumes of Cubes and Cuboids
🟠 Volume of a Prism
🟢 Error Intervals (Including Truncation)
This brings our total number of new lessons published in June to 39! 🥳
🔗 Find them all here: buff.ly/tdMVKgD
🟣 Volumes of Cubes and Cuboids
🟠 Volume of a Prism
🟢 Error Intervals (Including Truncation)
This brings our total number of new lessons published in June to 39! 🥳
🔗 Find them all here: buff.ly/tdMVKgD
June 30, 2025 at 3:17 PM
🙌 Another 3 brand new lessons just published @DrFrostMaths.bsky.social 🙌
🟣 Volumes of Cubes and Cuboids
🟠 Volume of a Prism
🟢 Error Intervals (Including Truncation)
This brings our total number of new lessons published in June to 39! 🥳
🔗 Find them all here: buff.ly/tdMVKgD
🟣 Volumes of Cubes and Cuboids
🟠 Volume of a Prism
🟢 Error Intervals (Including Truncation)
This brings our total number of new lessons published in June to 39! 🥳
🔗 Find them all here: buff.ly/tdMVKgD
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With my Year 12 Further Maths class we've moved on to the Core Pure content, starting with sums of series. I've made a few new resources on the topic so far:
✨Evaluating sums of natural numbers match-up
✨Sum of natural numbers fill in the blanks
#MathsToday #UKMathsChat #ALevelMaths
✨Evaluating sums of natural numbers match-up
✨Sum of natural numbers fill in the blanks
#MathsToday #UKMathsChat #ALevelMaths
June 30, 2025 at 7:04 PM
With my Year 12 Further Maths class we've moved on to the Core Pure content, starting with sums of series. I've made a few new resources on the topic so far:
✨Evaluating sums of natural numbers match-up
✨Sum of natural numbers fill in the blanks
#MathsToday #UKMathsChat #ALevelMaths
✨Evaluating sums of natural numbers match-up
✨Sum of natural numbers fill in the blanks
#MathsToday #UKMathsChat #ALevelMaths
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Huge shout out to @draustinmaths.com for her resources free online. These were so useful for Y10 consolidation and practice this week. They are so well constructed 😍
June 28, 2025 at 10:25 AM
Huge shout out to @draustinmaths.com for her resources free online. These were so useful for Y10 consolidation and practice this week. They are so well constructed 😍
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Bill Gates quoted in the FT "for the first time in decades, the number of kids dying around the world will likely go up this year...because of massive cuts to foreign aid".
US withdrawing funding from the global vaccine alliance is the latest blow.
US withdrawing funding from the global vaccine alliance is the latest blow.
June 27, 2025 at 7:37 AM
Bill Gates quoted in the FT "for the first time in decades, the number of kids dying around the world will likely go up this year...because of massive cuts to foreign aid".
US withdrawing funding from the global vaccine alliance is the latest blow.
US withdrawing funding from the global vaccine alliance is the latest blow.
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It isn't possible to design a school system where everyone leaves with the skills needed for the workplace because *they're all going to do different jobs*.
Workplace training needs to be done by employers.
Workplace training needs to be done by employers.
We need our children to leave school ready for life in the real world
To ensure that young people embarking on a career have the skills and mindset employers are looking for, education must be linked more closely to the workplace, writes David Blunkett.
To ensure that young people embarking on a career have the skills and mindset employers are looking for, education must be linked more closely to the workplace, writes David Blunkett.
‘We need our children to leave school ready for life in t...
To ensure that young people embarking on a career have the skills and mindset employers are looking for, education must be linked more closely to the wor...
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June 2, 2025 at 2:19 PM
It isn't possible to design a school system where everyone leaves with the skills needed for the workplace because *they're all going to do different jobs*.
Workplace training needs to be done by employers.
Workplace training needs to be done by employers.
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The irony is the revolution against technocrats will end with officials running the councils because Reform councillors will have no idea what to do + many don't even want to be doing it.
@vicderbyshire.bsky.social @chadbourn.bsky.social
Winning reform candidates in emotional meltdown post count in #rugby #warwickshire
Winning reform candidates in emotional meltdown post count in #rugby #warwickshire
May 3, 2025 at 1:53 PM
The irony is the revolution against technocrats will end with officials running the councils because Reform councillors will have no idea what to do + many don't even want to be doing it.