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MrLevMaths @mrlevmaths.bsky.social · 14h

Did this with my year 13s in #Alevelmaths as a gentle warm up.

Getting them to guess what f(x) and g(x) was and to find each area depending on their functions was less gentle! #Mathstoday

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MrLevMaths @mrlevmaths.bsky.social · 1d

Made this Circle Theorems and Trigonometry worksheet inspired by interwoven maths @nathanday.bsky.social in #Mathstoday

PPT and answers here: chelekmaths.com/most-recent-...

Worksheet involving circle theorems and trigonometry

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MrLevMaths @mrlevmaths.bsky.social · 15d

Haven't posted to my website much recently but just made a quick post collating together stuff I've posted here over the past few months

chelekmaths.com/2025/09/24/r...

Recent Stuff!

Just a quick post to collate together some of the (Mainly A Level) things I have put together over the past few months. Been posting to BlueSky and enjoying it! Differentiation Starter Just a fun l…

chelekmaths.com

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MrLevMaths @mrlevmaths.bsky.social · 17d

Parametric Equations with #AlevelMaths in #MathsToday

Continuing to try and use Variation Theory to zoom in on possible misconceptions!

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MrLevMaths @mrlevmaths.bsky.social · 20d

Excited to be running my first session at #Mathsconf39 with @seethelanes.bsky.social

Talking about Variation Theory in #Alevelmaths and how fun it as a guide for writing series of questions!

Here is a set I wrote in #MathsToday for my stats Y12s!

(also the classic misspelling of Natan 🙈)

A series of questions getting students to find different quartiles from a grouped frequency table

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Jo Morgan @mathsjem.bsky.social · 26d

New! My 192nd gems post. Ideas, updates and resources for maths teachers. 💎

www.resourceaholic.com/2025/09/5-ma...

Hat tips to follow.

#mathstoday #ukmathschat #alevelmaths #iteachmath

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MrLevMaths @mrlevmaths.bsky.social · 28d

I made a very silly series of videos along these lines a while ago. Very fun very niche!
youtu.be/gi6pDkLss04?...

Integrating X without the power rule?! [#1]

YouTube video by Chelek Maths

youtu.be

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MrLevMaths @mrlevmaths.bsky.social · 28d

"Draw an animal using only right angles" with year 8 this morning

Not much laughter for my "Serpendicular" joke unfortunately... #MathsToday

A drawing of a snake made with right angles

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MrLevMaths @mrlevmaths.bsky.social · 28d

Differentiating inverse trig functions in #MathsToday

Some discussion upon reaching the answer of 1 about whether there was in fact an easier way of doing this question...

#AlevelMaths

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MrLevMaths @mrlevmaths.bsky.social · Sep 5

Yup! Starting by sketching graphs (also great excuse to use the sliders on desmos) and then making predictions from question to question, leading to simultaneous equations and using the discriminant 😊

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MrLevMaths @mrlevmaths.bsky.social · Sep 4

Always like thinking about how to get students to do something tricky by slowly building up the skill - I hadn't seen many "easier" finding intersections questions so enjoyed making my own! #MathsToday #ALevelMaths

Series of questions where students need to find intersections

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MrLevMaths @mrlevmaths.bsky.social · Sep 1

Back to school thinking of a fun little starter for Year 13s after a summer off... #ALevelMaths #MathsToday

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MrLevMaths @mrlevmaths.bsky.social · Jul 22

I definitely find some students do that but I try to use some examples where that is PARTICULARLY horrible and Quotient is much easier to try and nudge them

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MrLevMaths @mrlevmaths.bsky.social · Jul 14

Introducing Quotient rule with #AlevelMaths in #Mathstoday. Had to do a lot of set up differentiating using function notation beforehand!

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MrLevMaths @mrlevmaths.bsky.social · Jul 8

Oo one of my year 10s managed to do it! What a legend!

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MrLevMaths @mrlevmaths.bsky.social · Jul 8

Have just spent the last forty minutes trying to do the first one of these to no success 🙈 if anyone does it PLEASE post a solution haha

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MrLevMaths @mrlevmaths.bsky.social · Jul 5

Sometimes but to be honest we usually just chat about the questions as a team

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MrLevMaths @mrlevmaths.bsky.social · Jul 3

Yeah has worked well when we have done it! Has usually been additional to going through a few key questions. We also went through phases of confidence marking and then getting kids to focus on the "highest confidence marked questions" that they got wrong which was interesting!

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MrLevMaths @mrlevmaths.bsky.social · Jul 2

We have tried doing it as a big Spot The Mistake exercise:
- Teachers do the test and answer each question wrong (hopefully using a misconception)
- we then photocopy that Teacher answered misconception paper
- students work in pairs to find all the mistakes (we did it as a competition!)

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MrLevMaths @mrlevmaths.bsky.social · Jul 1

Doing some TMUA prep in #Mathstoday and came up with this question to get my #AlevelMaths students thinking about sketching graphs/integration questions

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MrLevMaths @mrlevmaths.bsky.social · Jun 30

Thankfully not! Although I got a lot of "... Is that one just zero..."

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MrLevMaths @mrlevmaths.bsky.social · Jun 30

Haha some of them did that one by doing cos(30-30)=cos(0)=1...

MrLevMaths @mrlevmaths.bsky.social · Jun 30

Working with Double Angle formulae with Y12 in #AlevelMaths #MathsToday

Can you guess which one they found the hardest?

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MrLevMaths @mrlevmaths.bsky.social · Jun 26

Doing some thinking about Integration in gain time for #Alevelmaths. Having fun with reciprocals! #Mathstoday

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MrLevMaths @mrlevmaths.bsky.social · Jun 21

Think this one works! Really fun #x^2-7x+10 challenge @ljohns6.bsky.social
#MathsToday

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