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Kathryn Clark

@arithmaticks.bsky.social

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Regional Lead Practitioner for Maths at Astrea Academy Trust. Executive Princess of Maths & Queen of the Ratio Table 👸🏼 Mum to Albie 🐕‍🦺 Very amateur pianist 🎹 Swiftie 💖 All views my own. #UKMathsChat #UKEd #UKTeaching #EduSky

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Kathryn Clark @arithmaticks.bsky.social · May 31

🚨 Exciting news! 🚨
After two brilliant years at @drfrostmaths.bsky.social , I’m heading back to the classroom as Regional Lead Practitioner for Maths in South Yorkshire with Astrea Academies Trust. 🧵👇

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Kathryn Clark @arithmaticks.bsky.social · 6d

Reached a point where I am starting to have “inside jokes” with some of my Year 11 classes now and it’s making my lessons with them so much more enjoyable - I love the part where you finally feel like you’re getting to know them and feeling like a team 🤩

Kathryn Clark @arithmaticks.bsky.social · 12d

I don’t want to know how I’m perceived 😂 last year we found a bingo card for another teacher with things like “I’ve had enough” and “I’ll just wait” on it, and I couldn’t even consider thinking about what would be on mine 🤣🤣🤣

Kathryn Clark @arithmaticks.bsky.social · 12d

Teaching a gorgeous higher tier Year 10 group at the moment and today one of the girls came in and showed me the revision notes she’s been making at home between lessons 🤩
What a bloody brilliant job we have!

Kathryn Clark @arithmaticks.bsky.social · 14d

Catching up on #EducatingYorkshire and absolutely loving the correction of “No, it’s not ‘easy’… it’s well taught!” 🤣

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Jonathan Hall @studymaths.bsky.social · 16d

In #MathsToday I did this as a starter on estimation.

With the aim of getting pupils to consider which counters are the 'significant' ones.

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Kathryn Clark @arithmaticks.bsky.social · 15d

Used @nathanday.bsky.social ’s sum-product(-difference-quotient) tables in an intervention session with Y10 in #MathsToday to support their factorisation of quadratics with negatives. Was really helpful to isolate the step of considering all the sign combos! 🤩
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Four Operations Completion Tables - Interwoven Maths

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Kathryn Clark @arithmaticks.bsky.social · 18d

Oh what an idea. Getting the soup maker out tomorrow 🤩

Kathryn Clark @arithmaticks.bsky.social · 18d

Thank you! Hoping resting up over the weekend means I’ll be better, but had to miss a friends wedding party tonight and I’m gutted about it 😢

Kathryn Clark @arithmaticks.bsky.social · 18d

Thanks beautiful! Hope all good with you!

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Kathryn Clark @arithmaticks.bsky.social · 18d

I’ve had headaches by 1pm every day since Wednesday and then my nose just started streaming on the way home. I was such an awful teacher in my last lesson yesterday too 🤣 brain feels full of cotton wool!
Hope your weekend is super restful so you can go into next week feeling less rubbish 🩷

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Kathryn Clark @arithmaticks.bsky.social · 19d

Hoping it’s a Covid swerve and just a bad cold but feeling rubbish today 😢

Kathryn Clark @arithmaticks.bsky.social · 19d

I’m hoping it’s not COVID cause it absolutely wiped me out last time 😣 I’ve had headaches for a few days but feel reaaaally rough today. Sending good vibes to you too! ❤️‍🩹

Kathryn Clark @arithmaticks.bsky.social · 19d

Thanks lovely! ☺️

Kathryn Clark @arithmaticks.bsky.social · 19d

It’s taken three weeks. But I have the lurgy. 🤒😷
Rumours that a new strain of COVID has wiped out a lot of staff and students at one of my schools, which isn’t ideal 🫣
Welcome back to school life 🤣

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Kathryn Clark @arithmaticks.bsky.social · 19d

Got home to a copy of Coaching Walkthrus which was an unexpected surprise as I haven’t ordered it yet 😂
Not sure how it landed on my doorstep - really wanted a copy but currently on a book buying ban 😂 so thank you!
CC @walkthrus.bsky.social @teacherhead.bsky.social @hachettelearning.bsky.social

Kathryn Clark @arithmaticks.bsky.social · 24d

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Kathryn Clark @arithmaticks.bsky.social · 24d

I’m across two schools this year and it’s making it hard to remember to share, because I’m second guessing which one I’m heading to on the way in every morning 😂 Nevermind sharing cool things we’ve done when I get home!

Kathryn Clark @arithmaticks.bsky.social · 24d

I LOVE this 😍

"In 6 months' time, you will either have 6 months of excuses or 6 months of progress, it's your choice..."

Kathryn Clark @arithmaticks.bsky.social · 24d

I love how this shows a real understanding of the place value 😍

Kathryn Clark @arithmaticks.bsky.social · 24d

Do we know where we’re staying for #MathsConf39? @lasalleed.bsky.social

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Kathryn Clark @arithmaticks.bsky.social · 28d

We also looked at how spotting a difference of two squares can make expending a tripe bracket much more efficient in something like (x+1)(x+2)(x-2), and then practiced moving between x²-a² and (x-a)(x+a) forms - again, sneaking some factorisation in before they could “officially” do it! #mathstoday

Kathryn Clark @arithmaticks.bsky.social · 28d

One of my absolute favourite things to do without naming it, just showing that we know the two sides of the equivalence at the end. Students can problem solve and reason to find that they need “factors of c that add to b”, then you tell them they can do incredibly impressive maths 😍 #mathstoday

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Kathryn Clark @arithmaticks.bsky.social · 28d

I keep forgetting to take pictures of cool things we do in #mathstoday to share… so I’ve recreated on notes app 😂
Today Y10 were looking at expanding double and triple brackets and absolutely smashed it. So we spent the last 10 mins working “in reverse” as a taster for their next lesson…

Two questions with gap fills for working in reverse at the end of expanding double brackets lesson, leading to “factorisation” ready for the real deal in their next lesson!
1) gap fills for constants in (x+_)(x+_) = x² +2x + 3x +7
2) gap fills in (_+_)(_+_) = x² +5x __x -10

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Kathryn Clark @arithmaticks.bsky.social · Sep 6

So glad you posted this - I wondered the exact same thing!

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Mrs Ware @mrswaremaths.bsky.social · Sep 5

#mathstoday and Year 8 grabbed every opportunity to suggest 6 7 as a solution to a maths problem. 🤨

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