A friendly Lead Practitioner of Maths. GCSE success rate higher than the hunting success rate of a pack of African Wild Dogs. Experience-led approach.
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Top 20 topics required to sit Higher Edexcel GCSE Maths… Go!
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So teaching students in mixed-ability sets and deliberately slowing the exposure of more challenging topics under the guise of “mastery” actually reduces progress? Who would ever have thought it? 🤷🏻♂️
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Friendly Maths Teacher retweeted
You know what doesn't work? Differentiation
Recent studies show no noticeable gains, especially compared to simple classwide explicit instruction
It spreads teachers thin, drives burnout
It's a buzzword backed by popcorn science
So scrap it. And simplify
#differentiation
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For context. This is a group of Foundation Year 11 students who, first lesson of Year 11, couldn’t multiply two decimals together.
After a one hour lesson in September, and occasional starters, one student dropped one mark (put 3 x 8 = 21), and the rest of the group were 100%.
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10 Nov 2025
Agree with the full thread. 🙌🏼
8 Nov 2025
Let’s talk about academies, the biggest structural change to England’s education system in a generation.
They were sold as “freedom for schools.” In reality, they shifted billions in public assets into private trusts.
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30 Oct 2025
Unfortunately that poor boy is one of many.
28 Oct 2025
‘Pastoral’
theguardian.com/education/20…
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21 Aug 2025
Sisra when more than 5 people try to log-in at the same time.
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25 Jun 2025
Could we have a look at a few of the other big MATs up in the north-east too please? 🙏🏻
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Friendly Maths Teacher retweeted
1 May 2025
New study challenges the idea that "teaching to the test" (TTT) damages student motivation. In fact, it may actually increase it when used strategically.
There is clearly a broader ethical issue here in the sense that learning is obviously more than easily testable/ decontextualised content but this does challenge negative assumptions about test preparation.
Full paper here: sciencedirect.com/science/ar…
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Friendly Maths Teacher retweeted
22 Apr 2025
You don’t need a PhD to be a great teacher. It’s not about titles: it’s about knowing your course and teaching it well. A passionate BA can outshine a distracted doctorate any day.
Know your subject. Teach it well.
Read more: richardjamesrogers.com/2018/…
#EduTwitter
#TeachingTips
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30 Apr 2025
Can we start looking at a few other Academy Trusts please. 🙏🏻
30 Apr 2025
The Press joined parents, teachers, staff and other members of the local community on the picket line outside a York school this morning. Read the full story here: yorkpress.co.uk/news/2512659…
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Friendly Maths Teacher retweeted
16 Apr 2025
We often overcomplicate teaching because we've lost touch with the power of simplicity.
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2 Feb 2025
Multiplication - Why Napier’s Bones is, by far, the most efficient and leads to the most correct answers.
A short thread comparing the three most commonly used methods.
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2 Feb 2025
The main argument against this method is that it doesn’t work in other areas like expanding brackets etc.
But using a clearly inefficient method to multiply numbers because you can apply it to algebra is nonsensical to me.
Students can still expand in a grid if you want.
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2 Feb 2025
Give it a try.
I’ve found it gives lower set students a chance after they’ve been hammered with the column method since KS2 - it can be a huge boost for students who’ve struggled for years to see that they can do it.
Higher students tend to favour it because it is faster too.
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