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Jenny Cains @jennycains.bsky.social · Sep 8

Started the binomial expansion today with Year 12. Introduced it a different way to normal and it actually worked really well 😁 also started randomly assigning partners at the start of each lesson using playing cards - definitely recommend this for collaboration outside of friendship groups ♥️♠️♦️♣️

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Jenny Cains @jennycains.bsky.social · Aug 28

This book is fab! Even if you’ve been teaching A Level a while, you’ll still get so much from it 😁

Susan Whitehouse @susanwhitehouse.bsky.social · Aug 28

Just a reminder that if you are about to start teaching #ALevelMaths, this book is available from the Mathematical Association @mathematicala.bsky.social online shop. In my completely unbiased opinion, it's really quite useful.

A picture of the book "Teaching A Level Maths: Content and Pedagogy"

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Jenny Cains @jennycains.bsky.social · Jul 14

As a twin-mom, welcome to the club! I have identical twin girls and it’s a wonderful blend of patience-testing madness and heart-warming amazingness all wrapped in double the cuddles 🥰

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Jenny Cains @jennycains.bsky.social · Jun 26

Big thanks too to @coremathscat.bsky.social for a fantastic session on how teaching maths in context can be such a powerful pedagogical tool!

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Jenny Cains @jennycains.bsky.social · Jun 26

Thank you so much for agreeing to share your top tips and tasks for establishing the right classroom culture with Y12s. Really valuable points for all A Level teachers!

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Jenny Cains @jennycains.bsky.social · Jun 26

Exciting day in the GLOW region as we’re hosting our annual MathsFest event for Secondary teachers across Gloucs & Worcs #letstalkmaths

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Jenny Cains @jennycains.bsky.social · Jun 22

Yes, they’re great when you want your students to practice exam skills/concepts but they’re sick of exam questions. Multiple choice questions which require some deeper thinking. kellymaths.com/foam.php Found this link to them as not easily available online

FOAM: Foundations of Advanced Mathematics

kellymaths.com

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Jenny Cains @jennycains.bsky.social · Jun 22

We have teachers who much prefer Stats and others who are more confident in Mech so splitting makes sense for us.
Plus, splitting means you can pair up experienced teachers with ECTs etc.

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Jenny Cains @jennycains.bsky.social · Jun 22

We split A Level teaching between two teachers, one Pure & Mech, one Pure & Stats.
The split for FM changes each year depending on how timetabling works out, sometimes split between two teachers, sometimes three.

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Jenny Cains @jennycains.bsky.social · Jun 11

Done 👍🏼 happy birthday 🥳

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Jenny Cains @jennycains.bsky.social · Jun 10

Really helpful - thank you for signposting!

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Jenny Cains @jennycains.bsky.social · May 12

C’mon Ofsted - bring it on 💪🏼

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Jenny Cains @jennycains.bsky.social · May 12

Hope the first day went well!

Jenny Cains @jennycains.bsky.social · May 2

We don’t leave all the applied for Yr2 but the only stats we do in Yr1 are discrete probability distributions. We save everything else for Yr2. Mechanics is a bit more of a 50:50 split.

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Jenny Cains @jennycains.bsky.social · May 1

No, they seem to be tricky to get hold of online. I’ve got quite a lot of them downloaded (although not many answers) Hopefully this link lets you access them: ccsacademy-my.sharepoint.com/:f:/g/person...

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Jenny Cains @jennycains.bsky.social · May 1

In #mathstoday we used questions from the old Foundations of Advanced Mathematics papers to revise cumulative frequency in #coremaths 😁

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Jenny Cains @jennycains.bsky.social · Apr 24

Woohoo - well done you! 🥳

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Jenny Cains @jennycains.bsky.social · Apr 19

Belated happy birthday!

Never too early to start planning for Christmas 🎄🎁😁

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Jenny Cains @jennycains.bsky.social · Apr 11

In #mathstoday, inspired by @colinfoster77.bsky.social’s Mathematical Etudes, we’ve been combining mathematical thinking and fluency practice 😁 lots of rich conversations all round. Not bad for the last day of a very long term! 😴

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Jenny Cains @jennycains.bsky.social · Apr 8

In #mathstoday this odd one out task worked really well and allowed us to recover quite a lot of important vocabulary 😁

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Jenny Cains @jennycains.bsky.social · Apr 4

Guess what we’ve been doing in #mathstoday 😁 💨

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Jenny Cains @jennycains.bsky.social · Mar 30

A decision that did not go down well in our household.

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Jenny Cains @jennycains.bsky.social · Mar 26

Ah, fab, thanks @davegjones.bsky.social! That is really nice 👌🏼

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Jenny Cains @jennycains.bsky.social · Mar 25

Thanks! I don’t know why I didn’t do it horizontally like a number line. Funny how different people’s brains work! I thought splitting tax up was the only way it made sense although it does add extra representations for them to get their head round. Couldn’t think of a better way 🤷🏻‍♀️

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Jenny Cains @jennycains.bsky.social · Mar 25

Need some help from #coremaths peeps - trying to create bar models for tax & NI from the 2025 Paper 1 Prelim. Thoughts? Does it work? NI seems to but tax is messy. Not sure how to make the £100,000-£125,140 one any better. All feedback welcome! @reflectivemaths.bsky.social @ecrmaths.bsky.social

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