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It's been a few weeks since any updates, but here are some new resources from this week's teaching of solving equations:
✨Linear equations with fractional coefficients practice grid
✨Solving quadratics by factorising sort it out
www.draustinmaths.com/algebra
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Maths task suitable for KS4 students - solving quadratic equations by factorising then sorting them according to their solutions. Maths task suitable for KS3/4 students - nine linear equations to solve where the coefficients of the x terms are fractions.
November 9, 2025 at 7:05 PM
mrlevmaths.bsky.social
Finishing up Quadratic Inequalities in #Mathstoday with some tricky compound questions
November 6, 2025 at 5:32 PM
missradders.bsky.social
In #mathstoday our team did some training on using Desmos to teach using one of these lovely webinar recordings from @tombutton.bsky.social and @sarahdenisonmei.bsky.social.

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Teaching with Desmos webinars - AMSP
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November 5, 2025 at 6:28 PM
mathsmuse.bsky.social
In #MathsToday a student called out 67 and then another year 9 said "for god's sake". It's even annoying the students who used to say skibidi.

We also did some nice expanding brackets.
November 6, 2025 at 8:50 PM
jbrough13.bsky.social
In #MathsToday I taught the Chain Rule, one of my lessons was moved to a different classroom on the other side of the college due to resit exams and I can't tell you how traumatic it was. The tables were smaller and the interactive board didn't work. First world problems I know... #ALevelMaths
November 6, 2025 at 7:32 PM
morrismaths359.bsky.social
#Mathstoday
Started Surds off with the year 10 with a challenge to write each number as a product of a square number and an integer. Led on nicely to introduce how to simplify Surds.
November 4, 2025 at 4:16 PM
mathsweek.scot
Congratulations to the winners of our Fibonacci Poetry Competition! With over 300 entries, it was not an easy choice. Find out more, and read the poems from the other finalists, on our website >> mathsweek.scot/news/fibonac...

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Little Robin by Theadora from Portobello High School (1) Come (1) Now (2) Bright Eyed (3) Little beast, (5) Bring us our winter (8) Bring the long-waited snow and cold, (13) And then you can feast on the holly’s red fruits ‘till spring (21) And your wonderful song will share share many stories needing told. So come, little robin. Gaming by Max from Kinlochbervie High School (1) Games (1) Console (2) Grab controller (3) Turn it on (5) Pick the game to play (8) Start the game and have lots of fun (13) Lose alot but win the game turn it off start again the next day. Hiding from winter, hoping for daisies by Cynthia from St Mary’s Music School (1) Five, (1) Six, (2) Seven, (3) Eight, nine, ten. (5) I’ll count the daisies (8) Before summer turns to autumn (13) Before the sky turns into a dusty shade of grey (21) Before the lakes form an icy shield, guarding the depth of the lake from all its secrets. (34) Before daylights duration increasingly starts to grow dimmer, while the cold, snowy and eerie nights are feeling unearthly and endless. (55) Soon we will meet winter’s chilly embrace. I will watch the icicles form under the rising sun, and the birds fly back and forth as the sun sets. Yet I still sit here and wish for the daisies to appear once again. There is hope. The Magic of Maths by Donald from Stirling (1) Life (1) Is (2) Superb (3) When Maths is (5) Part of the Magic! (8) The Wonders of the universe (13) Can start to be explored and understood with numbers (21) Astronomy, Time, Nature, the whole world around us, everything! comes to life with Maths (34) Unknown Planets orbiting distant suns, movements in our own solar system, the moon, the tides, the rhythm of our own lives. All down to Maths. (55) Our Mountains, Lochs, Valleys, Seas, created by ice-age forces, seemingly at ease. Maths explains events from our past, bringing logic and sense as we explore the facts. Dive into numbers, make it all fun - Maths is your number one! (89) Wing span of an eagle, speed of a hare. A ptarmigans plumage on the mountains, the temperature up there. The patterns of nature, plants and leaves, the lifespan, the carbon capture of trees. The height of Ben Nevis, the depth of Loch Ness, the two hundred and eighty-two munros, the thirty-thousand lochs, more or less! Let the Magic of Maths and Nature light up your life!
November 5, 2025 at 9:18 AM
danihosford.bsky.social
#MathsToday

It's teddy bear time!
November 7, 2025 at 8:48 AM
mathsweek.scot
Anyone else watching the Great British Bake off final? There are a multitude of maths and numeracy skills involved in baking.

Find out more about learning maths through baking >> www.mathsweek.scot/news/learnin...

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Photograph showing various baking implements and ingredients, including a whisk, wooden spoons, eggs, flour, sugar and butter.
November 4, 2025 at 9:24 PM
numberdance.bsky.social
#MathsToday: shout out to former students who hear current students talk about having a hard time in Applied Stats and say "you should *really* go talk to your professor, she'll listen and help."

Hearing that from each other does so much more than hearing the same from me.
November 4, 2025 at 11:37 PM
blatherwicksam.bsky.social
spent last week thrashing out expanding brackets with a grid/area model last week with grade 1-3 yr 10s, felt like I was going nowhere fast and encountering lots of difficulties.

This morning did reverse process to factorise with same model. Insane success rate.

#mathstoday
November 3, 2025 at 8:33 PM
mrvalencia24.bsky.social
Tonight calc ss @lehmancollege.bsky.social started class with a #SameDiffMath activation routine comparing two Power Rules💪🦾 #MathPlay 🧮

#ITeachMath #MTBoS #MathsToday #EduSky #MathSky #ThinkingClassrooms #BuildingThinkingClassrooms #Math
November 6, 2025 at 11:31 PM
mrs-p-maths.bsky.social
In #MathsToday pupils vote which of these were equivalent to the original expression. 1 vote Mario, 15 votes Luigi, 1 vote Bowser and 20 votes Peaches. One pupil explained she voted for Peaches because she just knew you multiply. So we then looked at it expanded and why multiplying works.
November 6, 2025 at 7:36 PM
peterrowlett.net
My son, everybody.

#tmwyk #MathsToday
Question is Shade 1/5 of the shape blue. A rectangle is divided into ten equal parts by one horizontal divide and four vertical ones. Two parts are shaded: top right and bottom left. Similarly, 3/4 of an eight-part rectangle is shaded irregularly. Shade shape B so both shapes have an equal amount shaded. Shape A is a rectangle divided into three by two horizontal lines, the top two are shaded. Shape B is a similar rectangle with nine regions, shaded irregularly. Similarly, half of 16 regions are shaded irregularly.
November 2, 2025 at 6:52 PM
ronpaq.bsky.social
Year 11 Foundation were finding roots today by substituting into quadratics at random. Will they accidentally discover the relationship between a quadratic's roots and factorised form when I queue it up tomorrow? TBD.

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November 6, 2025 at 2:00 PM
priy45hah.bsky.social
An eye opener in a match the word to the operation activity.
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November 3, 2025 at 10:47 PM
ecrmaths.bsky.social
Is anyone able to send me a copy of the GCSE Edexcel foundation paper from today, please? Trying to get some revision sorted for our GCSE resit students #MathsToday
November 5, 2025 at 3:46 PM
ecrmaths.bsky.social
In #MathsToday I did some CPD for my department on using the CG100 calculator for #ALevelMaths. I used some of the excellent video tutorials by @tayyubmajeed.bsky.social - very helpful, thank you!
Playlist here:
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Casio fx-CG100 | Complete Guide for A Level Maths and Further Maths - YouTube
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November 3, 2025 at 9:42 PM
ronpaq.bsky.social
I love teaching quadratics. I find there it makes a lovely closed universe to explore. And we start with factorising! Today, my favourite factorising task with some low-prior attaining Year 11s. They hate how the numbers are "the same", but it gets them thinking. #mathstoday
November 5, 2025 at 10:58 AM
mrlevmaths.bsky.social
A Year 11 student wrote this question as an extension in #MathsToday following on from the questions we worked through below 😮

Definitely will be a fun qu to give my #AlevelMaths classes next week!
November 4, 2025 at 8:06 PM
jedediyah.com
Was really curious to see how these problems would go over in #MathsToday. It was great!

We talked about how to map all of the problems onto the last problem and the usefulness of knowing "how to solve it" when we can recognize and abstract problems to known strategies.
A series of combinatorics problems. First problem asks: On a 2x2 grid of squares, in how many ways can we color the squares black or white?
November 4, 2025 at 6:00 PM
mrvalencia24.bsky.social
Fraction #MathPlay 🧮 via @phetsims.bsky.social 👨‍👧➗

#ITeachMath #MTBoS #ElemMathChat #MathsToday #MathSky #EduSky #STEM #EdTech #EdChat

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November 2, 2025 at 5:38 PM
mrlevmaths.bsky.social
Been teaching Quadratic Inequalities and Trig Graphs to my year 11s recently so put this together for them as a challenge!

Will also give it to my year 12s and see how they do...

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A series of questions involving Trig Inequalities
November 3, 2025 at 5:02 PM
karencampe.bsky.social
November is here, and so is the next Calendar of problems!
Enjoy these with your students or for yourself, share your thinking here or on the post.
#MTBoS #iTeachMath #T3Learns #MathSky #RecreationalMath #MathsToday
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November Calendar Problems
Wow, November has blown in with some wild weather, but at least we can get an extra hour of sleep tonight as we “fall back” to standard time. It’s a busy month at school, as the f…
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November 1, 2025 at 12:19 PM
mathsjem.bsky.social
New! My 193rd gems post.

Ideas, resources and updates for maths teachers. 💎

www.resourceaholic.com/2025/10/5-ma...

Hat tips to follow.

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October 30, 2025 at 8:31 PM