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vickyomaths.bsky.social
Vicky OMaths
@vickyomaths.bsky.social
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Currently taking a year out of education to care for family with additional needs. Becoming a reluctant expert on EHCP applications, funding, and therapeutic schools. Seeing the SEND crisis from both sides! Always learning 💚
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Darren Macey @darrenmacey.bsky.social · 5d
Have you heard of ‘informal inference’? it’s an approach to teaching #statistics that can support students in developing their statistical reasoning skills. Many students don’t encounter inference until A-level, but in fact they can be introduced to these ideas from a very young age.
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Vicky OMaths @vickyomaths.bsky.social · 6d
These are amazing and have you seen all the hints for Rep TV vault tracks too 👀👀
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Edutopia @edutopia.org · 24d
Showing mathematical reasoning is more than a formality, or a speed bump to the correct answer. It’s how students make sense of problems, communicate ideas, and prove their reasoning so that others can learn from them. ⭐

#MathSky #ITeachMath
7 Ways to Get Math Students to Show Their Thinking
Math isn’t just about answers—the process matters, too. These strategies spotlight reasoning and reveal student thinking.
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Isabelle Finn-Kelcey @isabellefk.bsky.social · 29d
I wonder why so many #neurodivergent children can’t access school 🤔

www.ucl.ac.uk/news/2025/ju...
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Vicky OMaths @vickyomaths.bsky.social · Sep 8
Thanks so much Katie this is great!
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Katie Finlayson @learnwhatyoulive.bsky.social · Sep 8
Text and slides from my ResearchEd talk.

open.substack.com/pub/learnwha...
Are SEND needs driving an increase in children being home educated?
My talk from ResearchEd National 2025
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Ryan Estrada @ryanestrada.com · Sep 6
Just a reminder to check for your name in this list of books that OpenAI trained from. If your name is there, they probably owe you several thousand dollars.

OpenAI cried that if everyone eligible author files, the company will go bankrupt, so I'm alerting every author I have ever spoken to.
Search LibGen, the Pirated-Books Database That Meta Used to Train AI
Millions of books and scientific papers are captured in the collection’s current iteration.
www.theatlantic.com
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Vicky OMaths @vickyomaths.bsky.social · Sep 4
I hope September has been gentle so far. I recently learnt that not having dreams is a sign of chronic stress, and the past couple of weeks I’ve been having dreams for the first time in ages. It’s weird for September to start and not to be in education, but… I am dreaming now so there’s that ❤️
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Tes magazine @tesmagazine.bsky.social · Aug 23
Few students feel comfortable speaking to a teacher, school counsellor or mental health professional about anxiety of returning to school, survey finds
Students want more support for back-to-school anxiety
Few students feel comfortable speaking to a teacher, school counsellor or mental health professional about anxiety of returning to school, survey finds
www.tes.com
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Jill Berry @jillberry102.bsky.social · Aug 23
In @tesmagazine.bsky.social, @mmulholland.bsky.social shares her recommended reads on equitable school leadership & how to further develop your inclusive practice: www.tes.com/magazine/tea...
SEND and inclusion: a recommended reading list
Margaret Mulholland shares her recommended reads on equitable school leadership and how to further develop your inclusive practice
www.tes.com
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Vicky OMaths @vickyomaths.bsky.social · Aug 24
Just thinking about the joy of learning an instrument ❤️
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Ken Plume @kenplume.bsky.social · Aug 23
This They Might Be Giants TONIGHT SHOW performance of "Birdhouse In Your Soul" from 1990 remains firmly lodged in my noggin thanks to the Tonight Show Band's full commitment and Doc Severinsen's incredible trumpeting... It took an already great song and made it transcendent.
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Vicky OMaths @vickyomaths.bsky.social · Aug 21
What a lovely last (potentially ever) GCSE results day!
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Vicky OMaths @vickyomaths.bsky.social · Aug 18
I guess my rescue is a boxer based on this 🤣
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Vicky OMaths @vickyomaths.bsky.social · Aug 15
Or a special interest thing to do. I memorise stats, just because they’re sports related doesn’t make it any less dorky!
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Vicky OMaths @vickyomaths.bsky.social · Aug 15
School refusal is also an outdated term, EBSA is better, and a good article here on why the language matters and how our trauma based response options open up:
Bps.org.uk/psychologist/cant-not-wont-rethinking-school-avoidance
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Vicky OMaths @vickyomaths.bsky.social · Aug 15
I mean it’s the mail… 🤣 probably mentioned liking the dictionary at 11.
Also, that many A and A* a-levels… probably did know better than some of her teachers?
Kids want to be in school, those who school refuse are doing it because they don’t feel safe, wanted, or supported. Usually neurodivergent.
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Vicky OMaths @vickyomaths.bsky.social · Aug 15
Or she had a chronic illness and managed to study from home and achieve these impressive results despite that.
Prioritising presenteeism over welfare is ableism.
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Vicky OMaths @vickyomaths.bsky.social · Aug 15
at most, the final 10% of effort.
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Vicky OMaths @vickyomaths.bsky.social · Aug 15
Results days for me are feeling more emotional and final this year than any other!
These days feel high stakes, but they are a culmination of 11 or 13 years of education *and life* and the variables are such that those who might try to hold you accountable should be reminded that you were
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Tes magazine @tesmagazine.bsky.social · Jul 31
Teachers often only see the ‘blockbuster’ education research, says @mrenglishteach.bsky.social, who shares 7 lesser-known studies that can help to improve your pupils' learning
7 studies on how to boost learning you might not have heard of
Teachers are often only exposed to the ‘blockbuster’ studies from education research, writes Mark Roberts, who shares seven lesser-known papers to inform your practice
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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · Jul 31
Good column this. Ultimately the UK's problems are 'need to spend a bit more money' - big and important questions on what the right mix of public and private that should be, but no, we don't need a 'Meiji Restoration' level of upheaval!
Britain is not a broken society
The country has serious problems but the right’s vision of it has become hysterical
www.ft.com
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Tommaths (he/him) 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @teakayb.mathsy.space · Jul 29
If there were such a thing as an email discussion group aimed at giving #history #teachers and #maths teachers (mainly secondary) somewhere to discuss the history of maths and the maths of history with a view to exploring each subject in the other's lessons...

... who would join it?

#MathsToday 🏛️🎓
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Speech Bubbles CIO @speechbubblescio.bsky.social · Jul 28
The support for #InclusiveOracy is growing. @theguardian.com.
Great work @voice21oracy.bsky.social.

www.routledge.com/Thats-My-Sto...
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Vicky OMaths @vickyomaths.bsky.social · Jul 27
This is so powerful, neurodivergent kids carry a heavier emotional burden in mainstream schools.
The students in this report talk a lot about the negative impact of certain interactions with adults in school 😔
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Group for Research in Relationships And NeuroDiversity - GRRAND @grrand-team.bsky.social · Jul 25
The ‘My Emotions in School Inventory (MESI)’ was co-produced with young people with ADHD and/or autism to measure levels of emotional burden (EB – combining frequency of exposure to common upsetting events and intensity of emotional responses to them) in adolescents.
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Vicky OMaths @vickyomaths.bsky.social · Jul 25
Week 1 of summer hols spent in Cornwall, mostly on the beach. I’m covered in sand. The car is full of sand. The holiday house is full of sand. I step out the shower and still find sand over my legs. The dog whimpers at the sight sand.
The beach has no sand left.
Time to leave Cornwall 🤣
An old pathway headed out to sea, the end is not visible beneath the water.
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