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Hannah @neechmaths.bsky.social · 6h

I am crazy enough to do this with 3 young children 😳

Hannah @neechmaths.bsky.social · 7h

In #mathstoday I underestimated how difficult students would find it to extract information from spreadsheets when looking at #coremaths past paper questions

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Hannah @neechmaths.bsky.social · 7h

That is sad 😔 totally understandable though if workload is unmanageable.

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Hannah @neechmaths.bsky.social · 7h

Hope I won’t have to leave either!

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Hannah @neechmaths.bsky.social · 8h

Actually really encouraged that my yr 1 student asked me about this.

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Hannah @neechmaths.bsky.social · 8h

Thanks 🤩 I think I possibly did see this at some point but I had forgotten about it. I’ll definitely make sure to check the year 2 textbook in the future too. For topics like this where it is so closely linked would you teach ax+b in yr 1 or wait to yr 2 to introduce it?

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Hannah @neechmaths.bsky.social · 8h

Thanks for explaining. I did wonder if it related to AS or A level since our yr 1 textbook only does (x+a).

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Hannah @neechmaths.bsky.social · 8h

In #Alevelmaths syllabus (we do AQA) are they expected to be able to deal with fractional roots / factors of form (ax+b) using the factor theorem?

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Hannah @neechmaths.bsky.social · 8h

I became a mum before I became a teacher

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Maths Locke @mathsmuse.bsky.social · 9h

Had an epiphany yesterday: teach angles questions as a series of reasons with numbers as an after thought instead of other way round.

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Hannah @neechmaths.bsky.social · 8h

I would not claim parents make “better teachers” or “worse teachers”

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Hannah @neechmaths.bsky.social · 16h

Thanks Susan 😊

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Hannah @neechmaths.bsky.social · 19h

I’m starting to understand why so many mums leave teaching. It can be relentless and shows no forgiveness or slack for the rest of life. #teachermum

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Amanda Austin @draustinmaths.com · 3d

✨New A-level resources from this week's Year 12 lessons on graphical inequalities, algebraic fractions and algebraic division. The new A-level section is slowly growing! www.draustinmaths.com/a-level
#MathsToday #ALevelMaths #UKMathsChat

A-level Maths task on finding the remainder when dividing a polynomial by a linear expression using algebraic long division.

A-level Maths task on shading regions in two dimensions divided by linear and quadratic inequalities.

$A-level Maths tasks on (i) solving linear and quadratic inequalities graphically, and (ii) simplifying algebraic fractions either by splitting the fraction or by factorising.$

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Hannah @neechmaths.bsky.social · 1d

In #mathstoday we did trial and improvement in #coremaths using a core maths platform resource to work out the maximum width of a garden path with enough concrete for 200m^2. A student told me it was fun and got very excited when they managed to find an exact solution with the help of excel drag 🤩

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Hannah @neechmaths.bsky.social · 3d

Happy World Teachers Day! 🥳🥳

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Hannah @neechmaths.bsky.social · 3d

I would be interested to see this

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Hannah @neechmaths.bsky.social · 3d

When you say to be clear, do they have to show anything beyond just filling out the grid?

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Hannah @neechmaths.bsky.social · 3d

Yes this is the sort of thing I mean. I was looking for a set of these sorts of questions to develop skills in comparing coefficients even if they use other methods for more standard algebraic division questions.

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Hannah @neechmaths.bsky.social · 3d

Yes that’s exactly what I was thinking so I was looking for questions that can’t be done without comparing coefficients so they would be forced to develop the skills to use later on. I had been thinking of where there are unknown coefficients.

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Hannah @neechmaths.bsky.social · 4d

I literally just spotted that on the slides you shared 😊

Hannah @neechmaths.bsky.social · 4d

I thought that at first too but was thinking I’d see how they get on with the grid method. Thanks for clarifying that either way is ok. Sometimes I worry I’m over simplifying things and missing something out entirely as a result.

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Hannah @neechmaths.bsky.social · 4d

It made me wonder if there are types of questions where comparing coefficients would be necessary, hence my question

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Hannah @neechmaths.bsky.social · 4d

To be honest I’m not sure with this being my first year teaching it, perhaps it is! I just went through all the textbook exercises for this chapter which compared coefficients in the worked solutions a lot and found myself constantly thinking but it’s easier with algebraic division.

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Hannah @neechmaths.bsky.social · 4d

#Alevelmaths - are there any good sets of questions on factors of polynomials specifically the sort where they would need to compare coefficients and can’t use algebraic division?

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