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Maths teacher,KS5 leader, Whole school numeracy leader. Started a website http://t.co/G8gh9HjhX8. Love maths!

Joined May 2013
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Great for use with prime factorisation - find the home primes for n = 1 to 10 teapawt.net/AlgebraFact/status/637…
#mathsbookclub The early chapters had some fairly well known material, but really enjoyed the later chapters 5 and 10
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New real life numeracy resource on buying train tickets at secondarymaths.com/resources… Kids always get stuck in. #mathschat #maths
Really enjoyed MathMeet in Brighton, every presentation giving something to think about! #mmsussex
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Talking at MathsMeet in Brighton today on Maths&Computer Science. See my presentation powerpoint at secondarymaths.com #mathschat #maths
New resource for using programming in maths, or maths in computer science: My Special Numbers at secondarymaths.com/computerm… #mathschat #math
New resources for Kannada numbers: secondarymaths.com/numeracy.…, good for use of symbols if nothing else! #mathschat
New resources added on different number systems, Hebrew, Farsi, Gujurati: secondarymaths.com/Numeracy.… Enjoy!
Oops, link broken, now fixed for bearings Isle of Wight: secondarymaths.com/resources… #mathsTLP
From last week's paper. Perfect to show why solving an inequality is not the same as solving an equation!
Flatterland by Ian Stewart? Great follow up to the original Flat Land but more accessible to modern audiences!#mathsbookclub @MathsBookClub
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Thought it was brilliant, using it with ks3 numeracy students, read a bit, then act it out! #mathsbookclub
Nicky #Morgan can't do 11x12 on TV but will label a 10yr old who can't a failure. She also fails for thinking maths is all times-tables.
Looking for some challenging Christmas puzzles for A-level students? www2.stetson.edu/~efriedma/h…, they're brilliant; kids love the challenge!
New blog post on a great problem solving resource: make a seating plan. Perfect for 1st lesson. secondarymaths.com/blog.html #mathchat
Explore numbers in other languages, Urdu and Cantonese with these 1 to 100 number squares.'#math #numeracy secondarymaths.com/numeracy.…
Oops, spelt my website wrong on last tweet! New blog on random questioning at secondarymaths.com/blog.html #teaching #mathed