Peter Lacey 🇺🇦
@ecarda1.bsky.social
Enthusiastic about educating but suspicious about schooling.
Interested and experienced in school and system governance.
Career spent investigating how mathematics teaching can best effect mathematics learning.
Interested and experienced in school and system governance.
Career spent investigating how mathematics teaching can best effect mathematics learning.
There's something special about DIY in maths. After all, we all have to construct our own idiosyncratic maps of understanding.
I remember my group using straws & pipe cleaners to construct a 3D representation of a hyperparallelopiped.
Over 50 years ago!
I remember my group using straws & pipe cleaners to construct a 3D representation of a hyperparallelopiped.
Over 50 years ago!
February 7, 2026 at 5:41 PM
There's something special about DIY in maths. After all, we all have to construct our own idiosyncratic maps of understanding.
I remember my group using straws & pipe cleaners to construct a 3D representation of a hyperparallelopiped.
Over 50 years ago!
I remember my group using straws & pipe cleaners to construct a 3D representation of a hyperparallelopiped.
Over 50 years ago!
Exactly.
Education is an investment not consumer good.
It's funding should reflect that.
Education is an investment not consumer good.
It's funding should reflect that.
January 14, 2026 at 8:52 AM
Exactly.
Education is an investment not consumer good.
It's funding should reflect that.
Education is an investment not consumer good.
It's funding should reflect that.
Good luck with the webinar.
As a start, please help your audience understand the difference between description and definition!
As a start, please help your audience understand the difference between description and definition!
January 11, 2026 at 8:49 PM
Good luck with the webinar.
As a start, please help your audience understand the difference between description and definition!
As a start, please help your audience understand the difference between description and definition!
Imo fuzzy language is often associated with fuzzy concept.
An example of one of many irritants is: find the area of a circle.
An example of one of many irritants is: find the area of a circle.
January 11, 2026 at 7:47 PM
Imo fuzzy language is often associated with fuzzy concept.
An example of one of many irritants is: find the area of a circle.
An example of one of many irritants is: find the area of a circle.
I think I might be agreeing with you!
I believe there is a stage of "getting a sense of" a concept which precedes and enables "making sense of" that concept.
The transition is assisted by moving from an informal language of description to the technical language of definition.
#UKMathsChat
I believe there is a stage of "getting a sense of" a concept which precedes and enables "making sense of" that concept.
The transition is assisted by moving from an informal language of description to the technical language of definition.
#UKMathsChat
January 11, 2026 at 7:34 PM
I think I might be agreeing with you!
I believe there is a stage of "getting a sense of" a concept which precedes and enables "making sense of" that concept.
The transition is assisted by moving from an informal language of description to the technical language of definition.
#UKMathsChat
I believe there is a stage of "getting a sense of" a concept which precedes and enables "making sense of" that concept.
The transition is assisted by moving from an informal language of description to the technical language of definition.
#UKMathsChat
And us oldies recall Galbraith's argument on the futility of a model of growth driven by stimulating demand and neglecting basic needs.
December 12, 2025 at 11:14 PM
And us oldies recall Galbraith's argument on the futility of a model of growth driven by stimulating demand and neglecting basic needs.
I think a reason might be in your headline:
....resistance from the schools THEY are trying to turn around......
School 'improvement' can be effected only by those within. However, it can be facilitated by careful external assistance.
....resistance from the schools THEY are trying to turn around......
School 'improvement' can be effected only by those within. However, it can be facilitated by careful external assistance.
November 20, 2025 at 7:32 PM
I think a reason might be in your headline:
....resistance from the schools THEY are trying to turn around......
School 'improvement' can be effected only by those within. However, it can be facilitated by careful external assistance.
....resistance from the schools THEY are trying to turn around......
School 'improvement' can be effected only by those within. However, it can be facilitated by careful external assistance.
But here is a wonderful example of how assessment can enrich learning and teaching..
November 5, 2025 at 6:40 PM
But here is a wonderful example of how assessment can enrich learning and teaching..
And on the proposals for mathematics...
November 5, 2025 at 8:45 AM
And on the proposals for mathematics...
I know the area.
Not far from Nantes.
See www.lesmachines-nantes.fr/en/
Well worth a visit. If you go let me know. My daughter works in the design school next door.
Not far from Nantes.
See www.lesmachines-nantes.fr/en/
Well worth a visit. If you go let me know. My daughter works in the design school next door.
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www.lesmachines-nantes.fr
October 22, 2025 at 12:08 PM
I know the area.
Not far from Nantes.
See www.lesmachines-nantes.fr/en/
Well worth a visit. If you go let me know. My daughter works in the design school next door.
Not far from Nantes.
See www.lesmachines-nantes.fr/en/
Well worth a visit. If you go let me know. My daughter works in the design school next door.
Where in Brittany?
October 21, 2025 at 7:16 PM
Where in Brittany?
I welcome new thinking on the "resit" roundabout. Without compromising WHAT is assessed, perhaps look anew at HOW. Timed written unseen examination papers do not necessarily reveal all that a student knows and can do.
October 21, 2025 at 6:19 AM
I welcome new thinking on the "resit" roundabout. Without compromising WHAT is assessed, perhaps look anew at HOW. Timed written unseen examination papers do not necessarily reveal all that a student knows and can do.
Learning is a process of creating and recreating schemata.
Thus recreation aka play is fundamental to learning.
Thus recreation aka play is fundamental to learning.
October 18, 2025 at 3:41 PM
Learning is a process of creating and recreating schemata.
Thus recreation aka play is fundamental to learning.
Thus recreation aka play is fundamental to learning.
But let's not forget NCETM is funded by govt. It's a govt agency
There's an important place for an independent subscription member-funded maths subject association
Controlled by members not govt: putting the interests & needs of learners first
@atmmathematics.bsky.social
@mathematicala.bsky.social
There's an important place for an independent subscription member-funded maths subject association
Controlled by members not govt: putting the interests & needs of learners first
@atmmathematics.bsky.social
@mathematicala.bsky.social
October 15, 2025 at 7:46 PM
But let's not forget NCETM is funded by govt. It's a govt agency
There's an important place for an independent subscription member-funded maths subject association
Controlled by members not govt: putting the interests & needs of learners first
@atmmathematics.bsky.social
@mathematicala.bsky.social
There's an important place for an independent subscription member-funded maths subject association
Controlled by members not govt: putting the interests & needs of learners first
@atmmathematics.bsky.social
@mathematicala.bsky.social
which, by their nature are unlikely to address the wide spectrum of individual needs
October 15, 2025 at 6:40 PM
which, by their nature are unlikely to address the wide spectrum of individual needs
Agreed. Exploring causes of behaviours that inhibit learning and social & emotional development should go beyond & behind categorisation and labelling.
Many labels are associated with generic & expensive off-the-shelf remedial packages
Many labels are associated with generic & expensive off-the-shelf remedial packages
October 15, 2025 at 6:38 PM
Agreed. Exploring causes of behaviours that inhibit learning and social & emotional development should go beyond & behind categorisation and labelling.
Many labels are associated with generic & expensive off-the-shelf remedial packages
Many labels are associated with generic & expensive off-the-shelf remedial packages
A one-time HMCI said in a presentation that Ofsted not really needed for all schools. If school was oversubscribed it must be good.
October 14, 2025 at 8:07 PM
A one-time HMCI said in a presentation that Ofsted not really needed for all schools. If school was oversubscribed it must be good.
1988 ERA gave parental choice & LMS emulating market choice. Oversubscribed schls became de facto selective. Less pop & undersubscribed forced to take all applicants.
So pop schls became exclusive making them more pop in some applicants eyes.
Suspect Ofsted grades reflect this polarity.
So pop schls became exclusive making them more pop in some applicants eyes.
Suspect Ofsted grades reflect this polarity.
October 14, 2025 at 8:02 PM
1988 ERA gave parental choice & LMS emulating market choice. Oversubscribed schls became de facto selective. Less pop & undersubscribed forced to take all applicants.
So pop schls became exclusive making them more pop in some applicants eyes.
Suspect Ofsted grades reflect this polarity.
So pop schls became exclusive making them more pop in some applicants eyes.
Suspect Ofsted grades reflect this polarity.
Money makes the world go around...
There was the day when members of independent subject associations would create, test and share ideas and resources with each other, not to make a buck, but to make life better for learners in the classroom.
Those days have gone.
Monetisation is now the motive.
There was the day when members of independent subject associations would create, test and share ideas and resources with each other, not to make a buck, but to make life better for learners in the classroom.
Those days have gone.
Monetisation is now the motive.
October 13, 2025 at 9:42 PM
Money makes the world go around...
There was the day when members of independent subject associations would create, test and share ideas and resources with each other, not to make a buck, but to make life better for learners in the classroom.
Those days have gone.
Monetisation is now the motive.
There was the day when members of independent subject associations would create, test and share ideas and resources with each other, not to make a buck, but to make life better for learners in the classroom.
Those days have gone.
Monetisation is now the motive.