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Susan Whitehouse

@susanwhitehouse.bsky.social

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A Level Maths and Further Maths teacher, education consultant, co-author of "Teaching A level Maths" and of Hodder education A level Maths textbooks. She/her.

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✨ A Goddess has NO KING ✨ @the-goddess-speaks.bsky.social · 9h

Shady Vance:
“Grown-ass men will be boys!” 😇

Meanwhile, Epstein and Trump’s teenage victims are “young women.”

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Susan Whitehouse @susanwhitehouse.bsky.social · 3h

As I said, my point here is not about the rights and wrongs of the different options, my point is that they definitely are choices. To try to pretend they are not, exempts Reeves from responsibility for them, and as Chancellor the responsibility is very definitely hers.

Susan Whitehouse @susanwhitehouse.bsky.social · 3h

Two examples are: she could end the fiscal rule about borrowing/spending (e.g. by exempting defence spending like Germany has) or she could opt for much larger wealth taxes. I'm not arguing (here) in favour of these, I am saying it is disingenuous to pretend that they are not choices.

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Susan Whitehouse @susanwhitehouse.bsky.social · 4h

There is no "will have to." Saying that she "will choose to" is more accurate. We can agree or disagree with her choices but to pretend they are not choices is wrong.

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Susan Whitehouse @susanwhitehouse.bsky.social · 1d

#ALevelMaths

MEI @meimaths.bsky.social · 1d

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Susan Whitehouse @susanwhitehouse.bsky.social · 1d

Picky, picky...

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Susan Whitehouse @susanwhitehouse.bsky.social · 1d

Do you think they actually believe that it converges for all values of x, or do you think there's confusion around the meaning of the word 'valid'?

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Susan Whitehouse @susanwhitehouse.bsky.social · 1d

Absolutely all British ex-pats in Spain speak Spanish to at least A level standard, right?

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Susan Whitehouse @susanwhitehouse.bsky.social · 1d

The person who did win the Nobel Peace Prize will be delighted. I wish I were joking.

Susan Whitehouse @susanwhitehouse.bsky.social · 1d

You can tell the best recipes in our cookbooks because they are the ones that are covered in greasy marks and traces of food. And, also notes about how they work better for us with certain tweaks.

Susan Whitehouse @susanwhitehouse.bsky.social · 2d

If only!

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Paddy MacMahon @paddymacmahon.com · 2d

#MathsToday #ALevelMaths #FurtherMaths

Find the exact value of the green area.

The graphs of y = a/x³ and y = a - x³ are in red. They share a mutual tangent point in the first quadrant. The area enclosed by the x-axis and the two curves, with no upper limit, is shaded green.

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Susan Whitehouse @susanwhitehouse.bsky.social · 2d

No worries if you don't get round to it 😀 Hope the cold gets better soon.

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Susan Whitehouse @susanwhitehouse.bsky.social · 2d

Is there a 'Paddy problem' today @paddymacmahon.com ? #ALevelMaths #MathsToday

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Charlotte McFarlan @charlottemaths.bsky.social · 3d

I don’t suppose anyone has a scheme of work for AQA Level 2 Further Maths they would be willing to share with me? #MathsToday

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Susan Whitehouse @susanwhitehouse.bsky.social · 3d

I'm not sure I would only count calculations as steps...I think many students find identifying angles correctly to be the difficult bit

Susan Whitehouse @susanwhitehouse.bsky.social · 3d

Maybe, but Susan is in the company of other people who also experienced it and are telling her it's real. I think TLTWATW is a great children's book, however you read it. You can be a Christian or not, you can understand the allegory or not, it's a cracking story. All that TLB has is the allegory.

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Susan Whitehouse @susanwhitehouse.bsky.social · 3d

Never have we needed one more

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Susan Whitehouse @susanwhitehouse.bsky.social · 3d

I think it's a problem with allegorical writing. My interpretation of what you are saying is that the loss of faith equivalent is not implausible, but that does not stop what happens in the story being implausible in the story. The allegory is more important to Lewis than writing a good story.

Susan Whitehouse @susanwhitehouse.bsky.social · 3d

I do recreational Maths a lot in my free time but I've never been to MathsJam, so I wouldn't necessarily attach too much weight on MathsJam attendance. A lot of Maths teachers are happy to chat about all things mathematical on social media.

Susan Whitehouse @susanwhitehouse.bsky.social · 3d

It just couldn't be further from my experience. (I've only ever taught A level, nearly all in sixth form colleges, so maybe there's a difference between those and schools?)

Susan Whitehouse @susanwhitehouse.bsky.social · 4d

Really? Definitely not my experience...a lot of Maths teachers I know spend a lot of free time doing Maths puzzles of one sort and another

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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 4d

Left: Labour's Bridget Phillipson saying British Jews find the anti genocide in Israel protests "deeply upsetting"

Right: A British Jew on the anti-genocide in Israel protest wearing a watermelon a kippah

Shame on Labour for conflating anti genocide protests with anti Jewish sentiment -disgraceful

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Susan Whitehouse @susanwhitehouse.bsky.social · 4d

Well, not quite everybody...

Susan Whitehouse @susanwhitehouse.bsky.social · 4d

The national cipher challenge says it's for age 11-18, but I don't know any more than that

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