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Maths teacher UK Please don't add me to starter pack lists

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CantabKitty @cantabkitty.bsky.social · Nov 16

Best advice for maths teachers newly joining here

The Maths Bazaar @themathsbazaar.bsky.social · Nov 16

just follow everyone I'm following (and block everyone I've blocked)

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CantabKitty @cantabkitty.bsky.social · 11h

Maybe I'll watch the rest when I get D+ in November

CantabKitty @cantabkitty.bsky.social · 11h

I really liked it but then again I've only watched half a series

CantabKitty @cantabkitty.bsky.social · 11h

The vampire lore that I'm most fascinated by is the OCD thing. It's why the Sesame Street vampire loves to count! Ah ah ah!
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Vampires & Arithmomania

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CantabKitty @cantabkitty.bsky.social · 11h

Looks like it's been present from the very earliest vampire works

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CantabKitty @cantabkitty.bsky.social · 11h

Blutack a cardboard cutout of my face to the screen of a computer playing some TLMaths videos. Job done.

CantabKitty @cantabkitty.bsky.social · 11h

The fuck we will

Schools Week @schoolsweek.bsky.social · 1d

Exclusive: Teachers will use 'deepfake' technology to create an AI avatar of themselves to deliver catch-up lessons for pupils who have missed school

Watch one of the school’s ‘deepfake’ teachers in our story below

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'Deepfake' teacher avatars to help pupils catch up

Academy trust staff to use AI generator to introduce resources for pupils returning to school

schoolsweek.co.uk

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CantabKitty @cantabkitty.bsky.social · 11h

They might've read Dracula in English though

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CantabKitty @cantabkitty.bsky.social · 11h

Wow. WOW

CantabKitty @cantabkitty.bsky.social · 11h

Do you take card or will I need to stop for cash out?

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Dave Richeson @divbyzero.bsky.social · 12h

There's a nice article by Siobhan Roberts about the Bridges 2025 conference in Eindhoven in the NY Times. I can now say that I am in The NY Times! (A photo credit for the shot of Chaim Goodman-Strauss and Edmund Harriss,... but still!) www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/s...

Every Artist Has a Favorite Subject. For Some, That’s Math.

www.nytimes.com

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CantabKitty @cantabkitty.bsky.social · 14h

Gosh.

The things you don't learn in maths class

CantabKitty @cantabkitty.bsky.social · 16h

Hmmm surely an email or something would be ok?! Maybe if you forwarded it via their school?

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CantabKitty @cantabkitty.bsky.social · 16h

The Pythagorean what?!

CantabKitty @cantabkitty.bsky.social · 19h

Oh no, what is it?!

CantabKitty @cantabkitty.bsky.social · 1d

There should be a special editing service for Americans writing fanfiction for British shows.

Today's 🤨 is someone who thinks Taskmaster is on the BBC.

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CantabKitty @cantabkitty.bsky.social · 1d

There's one in my favourite Maccas car park - Caxton Gibbet

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CantabKitty @cantabkitty.bsky.social · 1d

Wives iand girlfriends
Works in gprogess

CantabKitty @cantabkitty.bsky.social · 1d

The two genders

CantabKitty @cantabkitty.bsky.social · 1d

Any suggestions for a film to keep 170 year 7 boys entertained for 90 minutes? Ideally one I can get a DVD of...

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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · Sep 4

4 yrs ago today, a family member managed a truly spectacular own goal, splintered his domestic bliss, & in the process, united the world for a day.

On popular request, I shall now recreate the livetweet thread from that day

So gather around children, for this is the tale of The Rice Truck Saga

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Your Dad Yells At Hotels @yellsonpolitics.bsky.social · 1d

Wait till this guy finds out when daylight savings was invented

Anon Opin @anonopin.bsky.social · 1d

Daylight saving times should be abolished. We are no longer living in the 19th century, we can do without. It'll be great for mental health, and people hating early darkness during the evening. BST timezone should be permanent

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Bill Shillito @solidangles.bsky.social · 2d

I've been thinking a lot about means recently!

Probably some combination of (1) teaching our data analysis unit in our STEM 101 course at Oglethorpe and (2) all of @howiehua.bsky.social's great posts surrounding Mean Girls Day.

I'd like to show how some of these various means are related.

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A four-panel graphic showing formulas for four types of means. Each panel includes the formula and the name of the mean in bold text below.

Top left (red background): Arithmetic Mean, labeled “AM = (x₁ + ⋯ + xₙ) / n.”

Top right (dark blue): Geometric Mean, labeled “GM = ⁿ√(x₁ ⋅ … ⋅ xₙ).”

Bottom left (purple): Harmonic Mean, labeled “HM = n / (1/x₁ + ⋯ + 1/xₙ).”

Bottom right (dark green): Quadratic Mean, labeled “QM = √((x₁² + ⋯ + xₙ²) / n).”

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CantabKitty @cantabkitty.bsky.social · 2d

We had a colleague last year who quit because we (as a school/org) couldn't just be normal about workload and stuff and so it just wasn't worth it. It was her first teaching job back from her mum-career-break.

Well done us, could've got another maths tchr back into classroom but we fucked it up

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CantabKitty @cantabkitty.bsky.social · 2d

Sorry couldn't read it. Too much visual stress with that background

CantabKitty @cantabkitty.bsky.social · 2d

The heart of child free discourse if people expecting to completely delegate their responsibility as parents (in this day and age, a CHOICE they made)

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