David Lawrence
@dmlawrence.bsky.social
A mathematics teacher at a school in Warwickshire.
Gattegno reading groups host/organiser.
Views are my own and not necessarily representative of any workplace or organisation.
<My writing on mathematics education will return in a new form>
Gattegno reading groups host/organiser.
Views are my own and not necessarily representative of any workplace or organisation.
<My writing on mathematics education will return in a new form>
Then this sounds like definite progress for you, and forwards sure beats backwards. Glad you’re here too, Jed, and thanks for everything you’ve produced and recommended over the years.
December 8, 2025 at 8:54 PM
Then this sounds like definite progress for you, and forwards sure beats backwards. Glad you’re here too, Jed, and thanks for everything you’ve produced and recommended over the years.
Well, in terms of how you are handling it. The reality is something else
December 7, 2025 at 10:43 PM
Well, in terms of how you are handling it. The reality is something else
I’m hoping the time since has been better for you and yours.
December 7, 2025 at 10:42 PM
I’m hoping the time since has been better for you and yours.
You know, I never bought this up in case for some reason you wanted evidence eradicated from the internet. I thought you’d nuked your blog, which I still very genuinely miss, at the same time you nuked your X for reasons that are your business
December 7, 2025 at 9:28 PM
You know, I never bought this up in case for some reason you wanted evidence eradicated from the internet. I thought you’d nuked your blog, which I still very genuinely miss, at the same time you nuked your X for reasons that are your business
Shocked you didn’t know about the wayback machine
December 6, 2025 at 10:14 PM
Shocked you didn’t know about the wayback machine
Limited voice here…
December 3, 2025 at 5:43 PM
Limited voice here…
Thank you, Elizabeth, and I hope you and Tom are well. If you come across any more recollections about ATM I would appreciate a pointer towards it/them, please. Thank you and see you soon.
December 2, 2025 at 8:56 PM
Thank you, Elizabeth, and I hope you and Tom are well. If you come across any more recollections about ATM I would appreciate a pointer towards it/them, please. Thank you and see you soon.
Whilst this remains true, the aims and principles will survive, albeit in a different form. It is my great hope that many years of teachers to come will be as lucky enough to be as influenced as I was.
This is a day to be thankful.
This is a day to be thankful.
November 30, 2025 at 1:28 PM
Whilst this remains true, the aims and principles will survive, albeit in a different form. It is my great hope that many years of teachers to come will be as lucky enough to be as influenced as I was.
This is a day to be thankful.
This is a day to be thankful.
preserve this history and published public and private work and records are successful. While ATM may not exist after today, its influence will continue to through the work and influence of many, and this tributary-like flow will produce generational lineage.
November 30, 2025 at 1:27 PM
preserve this history and published public and private work and records are successful. While ATM may not exist after today, its influence will continue to through the work and influence of many, and this tributary-like flow will produce generational lineage.
ATM was governed by its aims and guiding principles, albeit to varying degrees over the years. Regardless of what is next, and what the role and purpose of a subject association is in our more modern, social media-connected times, its work and history remains. I hope the people looking to...
November 30, 2025 at 1:25 PM
ATM was governed by its aims and guiding principles, albeit to varying degrees over the years. Regardless of what is next, and what the role and purpose of a subject association is in our more modern, social media-connected times, its work and history remains. I hope the people looking to...
...years on council. I can only hope I made it clear to them in person just how brilliant and invaluable I thought they were, but also that they find this public recognition here. Thank you for everything you did.
November 30, 2025 at 1:23 PM
...years on council. I can only hope I made it clear to them in person just how brilliant and invaluable I thought they were, but also that they find this public recognition here. Thank you for everything you did.
At least some are recognised at the end of this document - atm.org.uk/write/MediaU... - but there will be many others who are not. Without meaning to cause offense to anyone else, I particularly want to name Su Strange, Karen Foster and Karen Kirkley, who were the ongoing presence for most of my ...
atm.org.uk
November 30, 2025 at 1:22 PM
At least some are recognised at the end of this document - atm.org.uk/write/MediaU... - but there will be many others who are not. Without meaning to cause offense to anyone else, I particularly want to name Su Strange, Karen Foster and Karen Kirkley, who were the ongoing presence for most of my ...
As I have written, there are many people I will wish I had mentioned. But I want to end by recognising individuals who too often go unrecognised - the office staff. These are the people who truly kept ATM running through its existence, whose hard work should not go unmentioned.
November 30, 2025 at 1:19 PM
As I have written, there are many people I will wish I had mentioned. But I want to end by recognising individuals who too often go unrecognised - the office staff. These are the people who truly kept ATM running through its existence, whose hard work should not go unmentioned.
had the privilege of observing. (You already know that, Elizabeth, but to keep you on your toes my career is not yet over...).
I could go on and on. I was very lucky.
I could go on and on. I was very lucky.
November 30, 2025 at 1:16 PM
had the privilege of observing. (You already know that, Elizabeth, but to keep you on your toes my career is not yet over...).
I could go on and on. I was very lucky.
I could go on and on. I was very lucky.
.. and thought that he was a Head of Department that I would enjoy working for and would help me grow. It transpired that he was my first Head of Department and I was correct on all accounts. At the same meeting I met @ebridgett.bsky.social , who would become the best mathematics teacher I ever...
November 30, 2025 at 1:15 PM
.. and thought that he was a Head of Department that I would enjoy working for and would help me grow. It transpired that he was my first Head of Department and I was correct on all accounts. At the same meeting I met @ebridgett.bsky.social , who would become the best mathematics teacher I ever...
...and countless others I will be irritated that I have not mentioned. Other in-service teachers were also greatly influential, some of whom I had other connections with outside of ATM, including James Robinson, Kevin Young and Tom Francome. At my first Birmingham branch meeting I met Tom Pole..
November 30, 2025 at 1:13 PM
...and countless others I will be irritated that I have not mentioned. Other in-service teachers were also greatly influential, some of whom I had other connections with outside of ATM, including James Robinson, Kevin Young and Tom Francome. At my first Birmingham branch meeting I met Tom Pole..
were nonetheless highly influential on me. Whether at the heart of ATM or just sharing a connection, this list includes Dave Hewitt, Caleb Gattegno, Laurinda Brown, Alf Coles, Anne Watson, John Mason, Charlie Gilderdale, Dick Tahta, Lyndon Baker, Barbara Ball, Derek Ball, David Wheeler, ...
November 30, 2025 at 1:10 PM
were nonetheless highly influential on me. Whether at the heart of ATM or just sharing a connection, this list includes Dave Hewitt, Caleb Gattegno, Laurinda Brown, Alf Coles, Anne Watson, John Mason, Charlie Gilderdale, Dick Tahta, Lyndon Baker, Barbara Ball, Derek Ball, David Wheeler, ...
I got to meet and work with a great many people who were and are highly influential to me, and my life is richer as a result. Some of these people also produced work that still speaks to me to this day, and always will. Others passed away without me ever meeting them, but whose work and writing...
November 30, 2025 at 1:07 PM
I got to meet and work with a great many people who were and are highly influential to me, and my life is richer as a result. Some of these people also produced work that still speaks to me to this day, and always will. Others passed away without me ever meeting them, but whose work and writing...
..made me realise I am still passionate and care about ATM and its history. Whilst part of me is very sad today, I am mainly instead focusing on all the positives that I and I know others gained over the years.
November 30, 2025 at 1:04 PM
..made me realise I am still passionate and care about ATM and its history. Whilst part of me is very sad today, I am mainly instead focusing on all the positives that I and I know others gained over the years.
I will always be proud that I was the one that renewed working groups within the association after an absence of many years.
It is a fact that when I left these roles, there was no one alive that cared more about ATM than I did. A conversation with Kevin Young, former treasurer, the other day...
It is a fact that when I left these roles, there was no one alive that cared more about ATM than I did. A conversation with Kevin Young, former treasurer, the other day...
November 30, 2025 at 1:03 PM
I will always be proud that I was the one that renewed working groups within the association after an absence of many years.
It is a fact that when I left these roles, there was no one alive that cared more about ATM than I did. A conversation with Kevin Young, former treasurer, the other day...
It is a fact that when I left these roles, there was no one alive that cared more about ATM than I did. A conversation with Kevin Young, former treasurer, the other day...