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Emily Rae @ecrmaths.bsky.social · 1d

In #MathsToday I ran a lunchtime session with some year 12 students where we looked at this activity. Trying to get them into the mindset of "just trying things and talking about what you're doing", with the eventual idea of leading to Oxbridge-interview-style questions
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Staircase sequences | Thinking about Numbers | Underground Mathematics

Given two sequences involving continued fractions, students are asked to pose questions and explore. The resource offers practice at manipulating f...

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Dale Chapman @dalechapman.bsky.social · 7d

Very difficult to choose MathsConf workshops this time.

Here's what I'm going with!

#MathsConf39
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2 - @nathanday.bsky.social
3 - @mathsjem.bsky.social‬
4 - @axiommaths.bsky.social
5 - Karen Hancock

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Dale Chapman @dalechapman.bsky.social · 15d

Very interesting. In UK exams they must use correct language for credit in exams, including ‘alternate segment theorem’, ‘angles in the same segment are equal’ and more

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Dale Chapman @dalechapman.bsky.social · 15d

That’s the one

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Dale Chapman @dalechapman.bsky.social · 15d

Agreed this strategy is good- wish they’d rename it to something like the chord-tangent theorem

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Dale Chapman @dalechapman.bsky.social · 15d

Are you a teacher in the US? I believe you may refer to this angle rule differently. The phrasing is exactly what our students find tricky- I don’t think it’s a very good name but it’s what they need to know.

These are pairs of angles and their partner in the alternate segment

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Dale Chapman @dalechapman.bsky.social · 16d

Work in progress - identify the angle in the alternate segment
Inspired by my colleague Rushni whose Year 11s were struggling to do such a thing.

comments/questions/thoughts welcome

#MathsToday

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Dale Chapman @dalechapman.bsky.social · 21d

And where, might I ask, is that marvellous shirt from?

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Dale Chapman @dalechapman.bsky.social · 26d

Stuck on tbis ESAT problrm-- is anyone willing to give me some prompts to get started?

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Dale Chapman @dalechapman.bsky.social · Sep 12

As if that's original

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Dale Chapman @dalechapman.bsky.social · Sep 12

You're the Man, Matt.

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Dale Chapman @dalechapman.bsky.social · Sep 12

Today's Polygons lesson featuring a Gemini created cartoon

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Dale Chapman @dalechapman.bsky.social · Sep 11

As always, you provide. Thanks!

Dale Chapman @dalechapman.bsky.social · Sep 11

I'm looking for the big document of A Level maths videos broken down by topic/skill with links to 5 or so excellent YouTubers-- can anyone point me to it? #alevelmaths #mathstoday

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Dale Chapman @dalechapman.bsky.social · Jul 22

The two lines of text is really weird.
Nice to know there's an option out there that you can still type naughty words on in the blocky text, though.

Dale Chapman @dalechapman.bsky.social · Jul 22

Drawn to the Malaysian Casio #MathsOnHoliday

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Dale Chapman @dalechapman.bsky.social · Jul 22

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Dale Chapman @dalechapman.bsky.social · Jul 22

Mechanics is maths

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Dale Chapman @dalechapman.bsky.social · Jul 20

There's water trapped in this train window, and here's how it sits when the train
• moved at a constant speed
• accelerated out of the station
• decelerated coming into the station
Which is which? How do you know?
#MathsOnHoliday #MathsToday

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Dale Chapman @dalechapman.bsky.social · Jul 17

Taking a break from maths to release sea turtle hatchling into the sea.

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Dale Chapman @dalechapman.bsky.social · Jul 9

Floppy Hair (aka the Michael Fabricant task) is a great one from underground

Floppy hair | Calculus of Powers | Underground Mathematics share.google/SXlBXBSVx9LM...

Floppy hair | Calculus of Powers | Underground Mathematics

Students use differentiation to locate stationary points on curves. They also have to manipulate some fractional indices and solve equations in ord...

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Dale Chapman @dalechapman.bsky.social · Jul 8

I did this with a class and nobody got anything that worked the whole lesson. Then one kid went home and wrote some code that brute forced every combination and found every working combination!

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Dale Chapman @dalechapman.bsky.social · Jul 8

Grazing goat - this was our EAL session on PGCE, delivered to us in a foreign language
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An Unusual Shape | NRICH

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Dale Chapman @dalechapman.bsky.social · Jul 8

Functions game nrich.maths.org/content/id/6...

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Dale Chapman @dalechapman.bsky.social · Jul 8

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