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Headington Helen @headingtonhelen.bsky.social · 15h

Huge thanks to @mathforge.org for organising the inaugural Oxfordshire Youth Maths Conference this week. Our 6 students who participated loved it and my colleague who took them said it was just right-- superb presentations by the students, not too long and the right number of breaks. Congrats!

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Becky G @rlmathematics.bsky.social · Sep 1

Hi maths teachers. I don't suppose anybody would ever willing to share a lesson on telling the time on an analogue clock for year 7 (set 9 of 9), please. My laptop has broken, yesterday of all days, so I am in a bit of a pickle this week. Thank you in advance

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Headington Helen @headingtonhelen.bsky.social · Aug 24

I'd recommend Amanda Austin, @draustinmaths.com . She creates tons of amazing resources and posts on here when there's anything new. Look at her website too. Good luck with your move to secondary 👍

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Headington Helen @headingtonhelen.bsky.social · Jul 10

We're a Google school so can't use OneNote. Used to use Google's Jamboard (which wasn't perfect) but they discontinued it. Most of us now use Lucid Spark or Canva, with a few using GoodNotes (but need an iPad, which we are all given)

Headington Helen @headingtonhelen.bsky.social · Jun 25

Try it! Introduce it in the right way, and you won't be disappointed. One particular entry inspired me to come up with next year's competition: Maths Movies-- a 3 minute film about any maths related theme. Can't wait!

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Headington Helen @headingtonhelen.bsky.social · Jun 25

I recently ran a Maths Song Competition across both our senior and junior school. Although I had fewer entries than some of my previous competitions, the winning entries really blew me away with their creativity, collaboration, and cross curricular skills.

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Headington Helen @headingtonhelen.bsky.social · Jun 24

Done!

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Emily Rae @ecrmaths.bsky.social · Jun 9

#ALevelMaths teachers! The free Oxford livestreams for the MAT and PAT start this week (PAT on Wednesday, MAT on Thursday) - if you have any students applying to Oxford for Maths, or Physics/Engineering, I would encourage them to join. I've had students in the past who have found these useful 😊

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1st Class Maths @1stclassmaths.bsky.social · Jun 6

If you have 5 mins and can help me with this YouTube nonsense instructions at the end of this video. It won't take long but will flag the videos to them. Appreciate retweets. If this gets resolved I can get back to making papers!

www.youtube.com/watch?v=9b6z...

I NEED YOU GUYS!

YouTube video by 1st Class Maths

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Corbettmaths @corbettmaths.bsky.social · Jun 5

Finishing off the GCSE Paper 3 resources & am so grateful for the praise that we've received 🤩
As a thanks, we're giving away lots of mugs & pens! 🎁
To enter, RT by 9pm Tues
Also, schools planning ahead can make big savings with our fantastic discounts: corbettmaths.com/wp-content/u...

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Kerry Dunton @kerrydunton.bsky.social · Jun 4

In #mathstoday we were let down by a company for our curriculum enhancement week in 2 weeks time. Does anyone have any suggestions of people /companies we could try (I know it's short notice) ideally based near Norfolk who could come to us. We have 100 students to keep amused on Fri 20th June 🙏

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Headington Helen @headingtonhelen.bsky.social · Jun 1

I'll ask tomorrow!

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Headington Helen @headingtonhelen.bsky.social · Jun 1

We use digital resources but have hard copies of the books for each option, which they can look through. I personally use Integral as a teaching resource, but others in my department have their own favourites.

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Headington Helen @headingtonhelen.bsky.social · Jun 1

We get them to chose in May/June of L6 (having taught the full A level course prior to then). We spend 10-15 min briefly talking through what each option contains and then they complete a Google form, rank ordering each option. The most popular combination wins!

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Headington Helen @headingtonhelen.bsky.social · Jun 1

We always let out FM cohort choose their options (most popular). In the past we have taught any combination of FS1, FM1, FP1 and DM1 (Decision Maths), once we even had some opting for FP2. We then staff the U6 classes according to who can teach which of the options.

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Headington Helen @headingtonhelen.bsky.social · May 16

Huge thanks to @zoelgriffiths.bsky.social for another great Think Maths day with Y7, Y8 & Y9. Looking forward to next year already!

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Headington Helen @headingtonhelen.bsky.social · May 6

We teach Y12 in pairs and during a particular half term, observe our partner teacher. Great for sharing good practice.

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Will Matthews @mrwmatthews.bsky.social · May 6

Any maths teachers out there use or have used Complete Maths?

@mathsjem.bsky.social would be grateful of a share. :)

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Headington Helen @headingtonhelen.bsky.social · Apr 5

Thanks Lesley-- much appreciated. My colleague will be in touch once our exam classes have gone-- been rather frantic this term!

Headington Helen @headingtonhelen.bsky.social · Apr 4

It's 45 years ago, so possibly we didnt🤔

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Headington Helen @headingtonhelen.bsky.social · Apr 4

Do you mean pairing digits and using tables-- how someone my age learnt it before calculators?

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Headington Helen @headingtonhelen.bsky.social · Mar 25

Hi Lesley. Sorry for the delay on following this up. Would it be ok for my colleague to email/phone you? If so, could you kindly share your contact details? She would be very interested in what you have to say. Thanks 😊

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Headington Helen @headingtonhelen.bsky.social · Mar 5

Really enjoyed hosting the UKMT Team Challenge yesterday. Lots of organising for the day to run smoothly, but mission accomplished!

Headington Helen @headingtonhelen.bsky.social · Mar 1

What a disappointment-- really great take away food

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Headington Helen @headingtonhelen.bsky.social · Feb 26

My colleague was told she couldn't do this-- this is exactly what I did several years ago, but appears not to be the case now.

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