Peter Williams
@mathsimpact.bsky.social
Secondary lead practitioner, teacher of maths and computer science, lover of puzzles, spreadsheet fanatic, proud geek.
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Given the choice between reading a book and sitting in silence, 3 out of 4 students in an hour long detention tonight have chosen silence.
I can't begin to understand them.
They even have the book out in front of them.
I can't begin to understand them.
They even have the book out in front of them.
November 12, 2025 at 3:42 PM
Given the choice between reading a book and sitting in silence, 3 out of 4 students in an hour long detention tonight have chosen silence.
I can't begin to understand them.
They even have the book out in front of them.
I can't begin to understand them.
They even have the book out in front of them.
Automated processes only really help if you have a half decent understanding of how to do it yourself the long way around.
This is true whether we're talking about grabbing a calculator, or using an AI LLM.
This is true whether we're talking about grabbing a calculator, or using an AI LLM.
November 9, 2025 at 2:20 PM
Automated processes only really help if you have a half decent understanding of how to do it yourself the long way around.
This is true whether we're talking about grabbing a calculator, or using an AI LLM.
This is true whether we're talking about grabbing a calculator, or using an AI LLM.
Joe Marler is well set up for his future career in light entertainment.
#celebritytraitors
#celebritytraitors
November 6, 2025 at 10:19 PM
Joe Marler is well set up for his future career in light entertainment.
#celebritytraitors
#celebritytraitors
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Assessment for learning should be a compass, not the destination. Its purpose is to guide teaching, not replace it.
November 5, 2025 at 8:18 AM
Assessment for learning should be a compass, not the destination. Its purpose is to guide teaching, not replace it.
Just got home after taking a team of wonderful students to the senior team maths challenge.
They were brilliant, despite their reservations about being in a private school venue, surrounded by a bunch of private school students.
I forget how daunting that must be, and I'm really proud of them!
They were brilliant, despite their reservations about being in a private school venue, surrounded by a bunch of private school students.
I forget how daunting that must be, and I'm really proud of them!
November 4, 2025 at 5:11 PM
Just got home after taking a team of wonderful students to the senior team maths challenge.
They were brilliant, despite their reservations about being in a private school venue, surrounded by a bunch of private school students.
I forget how daunting that must be, and I'm really proud of them!
They were brilliant, despite their reservations about being in a private school venue, surrounded by a bunch of private school students.
I forget how daunting that must be, and I'm really proud of them!
How lovely!
Minute Cryptic - 30 October, 2025
"Summer read “D” from “A-Z”?" (5)
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Minute Cryptic - 30 October, 2025
"Summer read “D” from “A-Z”?" (5)
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🏆 0 hints – 2 under the community par (46,560 solvers so far).
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October 30, 2025 at 10:47 AM
How lovely!
Minute Cryptic - 30 October, 2025
"Summer read “D” from “A-Z”?" (5)
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🏆 0 hints – 2 under the community par (46,560 solvers so far).
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Minute Cryptic - 30 October, 2025
"Summer read “D” from “A-Z”?" (5)
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🏆 0 hints – 2 under the community par (46,560 solvers so far).
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Took me a while, had the right indicator, but I was trying to apply it to the wrong thing...
Minute Cryptic - 27 October, 2025
"Early alien race with many legs" (5)
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Minute Cryptic - 27 October, 2025
"Early alien race with many legs" (5)
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🏆 0 hints – 2 under the community par (88,855 solvers so far).
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Solve a clue with a hidden meaning
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October 27, 2025 at 8:57 PM
Took me a while, had the right indicator, but I was trying to apply it to the wrong thing...
Minute Cryptic - 27 October, 2025
"Early alien race with many legs" (5)
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🏆 0 hints – 2 under the community par (88,855 solvers so far).
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Minute Cryptic - 27 October, 2025
"Early alien race with many legs" (5)
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🏆 0 hints – 2 under the community par (88,855 solvers so far).
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Tonight we're gonna be a little bit naughty...
October 16, 2025 at 3:29 PM
Tonight we're gonna be a little bit naughty...
Had a bizarre conversation with a colleague today sparked by me losing my voice.
They told us of the time during their teacher training when they were asked by their mentor to teach an entire lesson without speaking.
All was communicated through gesture and silent board work.
Bonkers.
They told us of the time during their teacher training when they were asked by their mentor to teach an entire lesson without speaking.
All was communicated through gesture and silent board work.
Bonkers.
October 13, 2025 at 9:23 PM
Had a bizarre conversation with a colleague today sparked by me losing my voice.
They told us of the time during their teacher training when they were asked by their mentor to teach an entire lesson without speaking.
All was communicated through gesture and silent board work.
Bonkers.
They told us of the time during their teacher training when they were asked by their mentor to teach an entire lesson without speaking.
All was communicated through gesture and silent board work.
Bonkers.
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Pot handlers people! They are POT HANDLERS. Made by grandma. Who is wondering why they made her leave the craft show...
October 12, 2025 at 7:38 PM
Pot handlers people! They are POT HANDLERS. Made by grandma. Who is wondering why they made her leave the craft show...
Celebrity traitors is good!
October 9, 2025 at 9:20 PM
Celebrity traitors is good!
One thing I love about @bennewmark.bsky.social is his absolute certainty that people can be better, given half a chance.
Out of this unpleasant experience comes a lesson, not condemnation.
An opportunity to grow outward in hope and love, not shrink inward into regret and anger.
Out of this unpleasant experience comes a lesson, not condemnation.
An opportunity to grow outward in hope and love, not shrink inward into regret and anger.
1. A thread about the very serious young woman who told me off for allowing my learning disabled eight year old daughter to dance in front of the big screens at a modern art installation.
October 8, 2025 at 7:36 PM
One thing I love about @bennewmark.bsky.social is his absolute certainty that people can be better, given half a chance.
Out of this unpleasant experience comes a lesson, not condemnation.
An opportunity to grow outward in hope and love, not shrink inward into regret and anger.
Out of this unpleasant experience comes a lesson, not condemnation.
An opportunity to grow outward in hope and love, not shrink inward into regret and anger.
Been off today feeling super rough, but I'm doing a little better tonight.
Trouble is, I have two hours with year 9 tomorrow, which I'm pretty certain will completely destroy any voice I have left even if I am feeling well enough to go in...
Trouble is, I have two hours with year 9 tomorrow, which I'm pretty certain will completely destroy any voice I have left even if I am feeling well enough to go in...
October 8, 2025 at 7:31 PM
Been off today feeling super rough, but I'm doing a little better tonight.
Trouble is, I have two hours with year 9 tomorrow, which I'm pretty certain will completely destroy any voice I have left even if I am feeling well enough to go in...
Trouble is, I have two hours with year 9 tomorrow, which I'm pretty certain will completely destroy any voice I have left even if I am feeling well enough to go in...
This is very exciting!
Children of Time was exceptional, and I'm half way through Children of Ruin at the moment, it's a little slower going because it's somewhat more traumatic (in a good way)!
Definitely glad to have more to look forward to in this universe 😁
Children of Time was exceptional, and I'm half way through Children of Ruin at the moment, it's a little slower going because it's somewhat more traumatic (in a good way)!
Definitely glad to have more to look forward to in this universe 😁
Upcoming: CHILDREN OF STRIFE and GREEN CITY WARS by @aptshadow.bsky.social
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Really looking forward to both of these - due to be pub'd by @torbooks.bsky.social @torbooksuk.bsky.social & @orbitbooks.bsky.social.
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Really looking forward to both of these - due to be pub'd by @torbooks.bsky.social @torbooksuk.bsky.social & @orbitbooks.bsky.social.
Upcoming: CHILDREN OF STRIFE and GREEN CITY WARS by Adrian Tchaikovsky
Adrian Tchaikovsky has to be one of the hardest-working authors in SFF. Not only that, his novels are consistently excellent and varied — he writes across seemingly all speculative genres, of…
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October 8, 2025 at 4:08 PM
This is very exciting!
Children of Time was exceptional, and I'm half way through Children of Ruin at the moment, it's a little slower going because it's somewhat more traumatic (in a good way)!
Definitely glad to have more to look forward to in this universe 😁
Children of Time was exceptional, and I'm half way through Children of Ruin at the moment, it's a little slower going because it's somewhat more traumatic (in a good way)!
Definitely glad to have more to look forward to in this universe 😁
What a wonderfully depressing story.
I hope it's resolved quickly and the company that have deliberately exploited a vulnerable group of children suffer some form of consequence.
www.lbc.co.uk/article/spy-...
I hope it's resolved quickly and the company that have deliberately exploited a vulnerable group of children suffer some form of consequence.
www.lbc.co.uk/article/spy-...
Spy Dogs children's books pulled from shelves after link inside copies sends children to porn website | LBC
A popular series of children's books is being pulled from shelves after a link inside several editions was hijacked with pornographic content.
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October 8, 2025 at 3:31 PM
What a wonderfully depressing story.
I hope it's resolved quickly and the company that have deliberately exploited a vulnerable group of children suffer some form of consequence.
www.lbc.co.uk/article/spy-...
I hope it's resolved quickly and the company that have deliberately exploited a vulnerable group of children suffer some form of consequence.
www.lbc.co.uk/article/spy-...
I grow so weary of reading "financial advice" which essentially amounts to "gamble your money irresponsibly on things which harm both the poor and the environment".
October 8, 2025 at 2:45 PM
I grow so weary of reading "financial advice" which essentially amounts to "gamble your money irresponsibly on things which harm both the poor and the environment".
I do by school policy, but only because I teach in a computer room.
My maths classrooms generally get left open.
@teachertapp.bsky.social
My maths classrooms generally get left open.
@teachertapp.bsky.social
October 4, 2025 at 9:25 PM
I do by school policy, but only because I teach in a computer room.
My maths classrooms generally get left open.
@teachertapp.bsky.social
My maths classrooms generally get left open.
@teachertapp.bsky.social
Time for a 2 hour drive through the storm, just so I can play a card game with some mates all day...
October 4, 2025 at 5:18 AM
Time for a 2 hour drive through the storm, just so I can play a card game with some mates all day...
Clues that you might be a board games family:
10yo makes a tetrahedral dice out of modelling clay...
10yo makes a tetrahedral dice out of modelling clay...
September 21, 2025 at 12:27 PM
Clues that you might be a board games family:
10yo makes a tetrahedral dice out of modelling clay...
10yo makes a tetrahedral dice out of modelling clay...
A thought experiment:
What if we could augment our imperfect memory by perfectly encoding our experiences digitally, and then using LLM technology to query those digital archives?
No external influence, just a way of accessing a more reliable version of our memory?
What if we could augment our imperfect memory by perfectly encoding our experiences digitally, and then using LLM technology to query those digital archives?
No external influence, just a way of accessing a more reliable version of our memory?
September 21, 2025 at 10:38 AM
A thought experiment:
What if we could augment our imperfect memory by perfectly encoding our experiences digitally, and then using LLM technology to query those digital archives?
No external influence, just a way of accessing a more reliable version of our memory?
What if we could augment our imperfect memory by perfectly encoding our experiences digitally, and then using LLM technology to query those digital archives?
No external influence, just a way of accessing a more reliable version of our memory?
If someone tells you X will revolutionise teaching, they are lying to you, and most likely trying to sell you something.
September 21, 2025 at 7:37 AM
If someone tells you X will revolutionise teaching, they are lying to you, and most likely trying to sell you something.
So here's a question that's probably mostly for primary colleagues.
How do you help children to get to grips with one to one correspondence?
Is this something that's actively taught, or is it more about setting up activities where it's involved and allowing it to develop naturally?
How do you help children to get to grips with one to one correspondence?
Is this something that's actively taught, or is it more about setting up activities where it's involved and allowing it to develop naturally?
September 17, 2025 at 10:12 PM
So here's a question that's probably mostly for primary colleagues.
How do you help children to get to grips with one to one correspondence?
Is this something that's actively taught, or is it more about setting up activities where it's involved and allowing it to develop naturally?
How do you help children to get to grips with one to one correspondence?
Is this something that's actively taught, or is it more about setting up activities where it's involved and allowing it to develop naturally?
Two different open evenings in one night is exhausting...
September 16, 2025 at 7:06 PM
Two different open evenings in one night is exhausting...