Peter Williams
@mathsimpact.bsky.social
Secondary lead practitioner, teacher of maths and computer science, lover of puzzles, spreadsheet fanatic, proud geek.
#EduSky #UKTeaching
#EduSky #UKTeaching
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I’m stepping back into a HOD role.
I have my own experiences from the first HOD role but what would your best advice be for going into a new dept and what do you wish you’d have been doing from the start?
Please share to get more voices.
(And answer yourself) @themathsbazaar.bsky.social
I have my own experiences from the first HOD role but what would your best advice be for going into a new dept and what do you wish you’d have been doing from the start?
Please share to get more voices.
(And answer yourself) @themathsbazaar.bsky.social
January 28, 2026 at 12:52 PM
I’m stepping back into a HOD role.
I have my own experiences from the first HOD role but what would your best advice be for going into a new dept and what do you wish you’d have been doing from the start?
Please share to get more voices.
(And answer yourself) @themathsbazaar.bsky.social
I have my own experiences from the first HOD role but what would your best advice be for going into a new dept and what do you wish you’d have been doing from the start?
Please share to get more voices.
(And answer yourself) @themathsbazaar.bsky.social
You probably want to work in Ashby.
It's lovely out there, and @blatherwicksam.bsky.social is alright too.
It's lovely out there, and @blatherwicksam.bsky.social is alright too.
We are advertising for a lead practitioner (& we also have a maths teacher post we are advertising for too)
If you're interested to come and work in a beautiful part of the country with a team who love to talk about maths teaching then get in touch!
www.eteach.com/job/lead-pra...
If you're interested to come and work in a beautiful part of the country with a team who love to talk about maths teaching then get in touch!
www.eteach.com/job/lead-pra...
Teaching jobs and Recruitment - Eteach
The Eteach Group is an EdTech software and services company, dedicated to providing education recruitment solutions for teachers and support staff to connect directly with schools online and find the ...
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January 27, 2026 at 7:25 PM
You probably want to work in Ashby.
It's lovely out there, and @blatherwicksam.bsky.social is alright too.
It's lovely out there, and @blatherwicksam.bsky.social is alright too.
Reposted by Peter Williams
A Year in Willerby.
Twelve of our most loved stories printed with original lino cut prints.
Sent straight from the village with a handwritten note.
No AI. Not available on Amazon.
Lovely reviews.
Last 16/100 of this first ever edition.
Next orders go out Wednesday.
www.etsy.com/uk/listing/4...
Twelve of our most loved stories printed with original lino cut prints.
Sent straight from the village with a handwritten note.
No AI. Not available on Amazon.
Lovely reviews.
Last 16/100 of this first ever edition.
Next orders go out Wednesday.
www.etsy.com/uk/listing/4...
January 25, 2026 at 9:11 AM
A Year in Willerby.
Twelve of our most loved stories printed with original lino cut prints.
Sent straight from the village with a handwritten note.
No AI. Not available on Amazon.
Lovely reviews.
Last 16/100 of this first ever edition.
Next orders go out Wednesday.
www.etsy.com/uk/listing/4...
Twelve of our most loved stories printed with original lino cut prints.
Sent straight from the village with a handwritten note.
No AI. Not available on Amazon.
Lovely reviews.
Last 16/100 of this first ever edition.
Next orders go out Wednesday.
www.etsy.com/uk/listing/4...
Listening to an uncomfortable interview with Geoffrey Hinton about the problems with AI safety.
He was asked as a final sign off "can you say something positive?"
His response:
"We may survive"
He was asked as a final sign off "can you say something positive?"
His response:
"We may survive"
January 26, 2026 at 5:04 PM
Listening to an uncomfortable interview with Geoffrey Hinton about the problems with AI safety.
He was asked as a final sign off "can you say something positive?"
His response:
"We may survive"
He was asked as a final sign off "can you say something positive?"
His response:
"We may survive"
This was all great, but the chat near the end about CPD in schools was particularly interesting.
If you're already doing something that works, making that better is a more efficient way to improve teaching than introducing something new.
If you're already doing something that works, making that better is a more efficient way to improve teaching than introducing something new.
NEW EPISODE
This week, we are joined by the OG and GOAT of education podcasting 🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁CRAIG BARTON!!
Craig knows so much about great teaching, it was a privilege to interview him:
open.spotify.com/episode/7dzR...
This week, we are joined by the OG and GOAT of education podcasting 🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁CRAIG BARTON!!
Craig knows so much about great teaching, it was a privilege to interview him:
open.spotify.com/episode/7dzR...
What are the quickest wins in improving teaching? With Craig Barton
open.spotify.com
January 25, 2026 at 2:49 PM
This was all great, but the chat near the end about CPD in schools was particularly interesting.
If you're already doing something that works, making that better is a more efficient way to improve teaching than introducing something new.
If you're already doing something that works, making that better is a more efficient way to improve teaching than introducing something new.
Reposted by Peter Williams
I created a Minute Cryptic for you to solve: Unending dream begins our messy love (5)
Give it your best shot!
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Give it your best shot!
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Minute Cryptic
Solve a clue with a hidden meaning
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January 24, 2026 at 5:01 PM
I created a Minute Cryptic for you to solve: Unending dream begins our messy love (5)
Give it your best shot!
www.minutecryptic.com/custom/0b6ac...
Give it your best shot!
www.minutecryptic.com/custom/0b6ac...
I created a Minute Cryptic for you to solve: Unending dream begins our messy love (5)
Give it your best shot!
www.minutecryptic.com/custom/0b6ac...
Give it your best shot!
www.minutecryptic.com/custom/0b6ac...
Minute Cryptic
Solve a clue with a hidden meaning
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January 24, 2026 at 5:01 PM
I created a Minute Cryptic for you to solve: Unending dream begins our messy love (5)
Give it your best shot!
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Give it your best shot!
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My watch strap has broken.
Where does one purchase a replacement these days?
Where does one purchase a replacement these days?
January 24, 2026 at 2:06 PM
My watch strap has broken.
Where does one purchase a replacement these days?
Where does one purchase a replacement these days?
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A friend of mine has just launched this website that I think is pretty great for generating quick starters for A-Level maths and he has started adding some questions for Further Maths too.
mrhardymaths.co.uk
#MathsToday #ALevelMaths
mrhardymaths.co.uk
#MathsToday #ALevelMaths
GCSE Maths – Do Now
mrhardymaths.co.uk
January 23, 2026 at 9:20 PM
A friend of mine has just launched this website that I think is pretty great for generating quick starters for A-Level maths and he has started adding some questions for Further Maths too.
mrhardymaths.co.uk
#MathsToday #ALevelMaths
mrhardymaths.co.uk
#MathsToday #ALevelMaths
January 23, 2026 at 9:45 PM
Predictions for #traitors this evening:
James goes at the table
General chaos during the day. Stephen goes bright red.
Rachel is voted out
Red smoke
Jade is voted out
Red smoke
Faraaz is voted out
Stephen wins
Jack appears on screen, to everyone's confusion.
Who is that?
James goes at the table
General chaos during the day. Stephen goes bright red.
Rachel is voted out
Red smoke
Jade is voted out
Red smoke
Faraaz is voted out
Stephen wins
Jack appears on screen, to everyone's confusion.
Who is that?
January 23, 2026 at 7:24 PM
Predictions for #traitors this evening:
James goes at the table
General chaos during the day. Stephen goes bright red.
Rachel is voted out
Red smoke
Jade is voted out
Red smoke
Faraaz is voted out
Stephen wins
Jack appears on screen, to everyone's confusion.
Who is that?
James goes at the table
General chaos during the day. Stephen goes bright red.
Rachel is voted out
Red smoke
Jade is voted out
Red smoke
Faraaz is voted out
Stephen wins
Jack appears on screen, to everyone's confusion.
Who is that?
Always love a maths adjacent cryptic clue! 😁
Minute Cryptic - 23 January, 2026
"_ < 20?" (10)
🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣
🏆 0 hints – 2 under the community par (38,205 solvers so far).
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Minute Cryptic - 23 January, 2026
"_ < 20?" (10)
🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣
🏆 0 hints – 2 under the community par (38,205 solvers so far).
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Minute Cryptic
Solve a clue with a hidden meaning
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January 23, 2026 at 6:47 AM
Always love a maths adjacent cryptic clue! 😁
Minute Cryptic - 23 January, 2026
"_ < 20?" (10)
🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣
🏆 0 hints – 2 under the community par (38,205 solvers so far).
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Minute Cryptic - 23 January, 2026
"_ < 20?" (10)
🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣
🏆 0 hints – 2 under the community par (38,205 solvers so far).
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Guessed it from the definition then worked backwards today...
Minute Cryptic - 22 January, 2026
"Add a dash of honey, cut one pea, then spread liberally" (9)
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🏆 0 hints – 4 under the community par (116,320 solvers so far).
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Minute Cryptic - 22 January, 2026
"Add a dash of honey, cut one pea, then spread liberally" (9)
🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣
🏆 0 hints – 4 under the community par (116,320 solvers so far).
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Minute Cryptic
Solve a clue with a hidden meaning
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January 22, 2026 at 9:48 PM
Guessed it from the definition then worked backwards today...
Minute Cryptic - 22 January, 2026
"Add a dash of honey, cut one pea, then spread liberally" (9)
🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣
🏆 0 hints – 4 under the community par (116,320 solvers so far).
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Minute Cryptic - 22 January, 2026
"Add a dash of honey, cut one pea, then spread liberally" (9)
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🏆 0 hints – 4 under the community par (116,320 solvers so far).
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I don't think these are the responses you meant to attach to that question @teachertapp.bsky.social
January 22, 2026 at 4:21 PM
I don't think these are the responses you meant to attach to that question @teachertapp.bsky.social
Things you don't expect to read on a maths exam paper:
"Explain why he has stabbed himself in the stomach"
I love this question more every time I see it.
"Explain why he has stabbed himself in the stomach"
I love this question more every time I see it.
January 22, 2026 at 8:58 AM
Things you don't expect to read on a maths exam paper:
"Explain why he has stabbed himself in the stomach"
I love this question more every time I see it.
"Explain why he has stabbed himself in the stomach"
I love this question more every time I see it.
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Hey #mathsky, help me out.
A while ago over on the bad place there were some lists shared of maths adjacent reading for pleasure books.
Does anyone know if they were shared outside of X, and if so where I could find them?
A while ago over on the bad place there were some lists shared of maths adjacent reading for pleasure books.
Does anyone know if they were shared outside of X, and if so where I could find them?
January 20, 2026 at 1:50 PM
Hey #mathsky, help me out.
A while ago over on the bad place there were some lists shared of maths adjacent reading for pleasure books.
Does anyone know if they were shared outside of X, and if so where I could find them?
A while ago over on the bad place there were some lists shared of maths adjacent reading for pleasure books.
Does anyone know if they were shared outside of X, and if so where I could find them?
Hey #mathsky, help me out.
A while ago over on the bad place there were some lists shared of maths adjacent reading for pleasure books.
Does anyone know if they were shared outside of X, and if so where I could find them?
A while ago over on the bad place there were some lists shared of maths adjacent reading for pleasure books.
Does anyone know if they were shared outside of X, and if so where I could find them?
January 20, 2026 at 1:50 PM
Hey #mathsky, help me out.
A while ago over on the bad place there were some lists shared of maths adjacent reading for pleasure books.
Does anyone know if they were shared outside of X, and if so where I could find them?
A while ago over on the bad place there were some lists shared of maths adjacent reading for pleasure books.
Does anyone know if they were shared outside of X, and if so where I could find them?
Reposted by Peter Williams
I am branching out into Whole school timetabling this year...
What are peoples go to for initial set up? Pen and paper? Excel? Straight into timetabling software?
Any retweets outside of maths would be great too.
What are peoples go to for initial set up? Pen and paper? Excel? Straight into timetabling software?
Any retweets outside of maths would be great too.
January 18, 2026 at 9:19 PM
I am branching out into Whole school timetabling this year...
What are peoples go to for initial set up? Pen and paper? Excel? Straight into timetabling software?
Any retweets outside of maths would be great too.
What are peoples go to for initial set up? Pen and paper? Excel? Straight into timetabling software?
Any retweets outside of maths would be great too.
Owning a medal doesn't make you a medal winner, it makes you a medal owner.
Machado understands this, Trump doesn't.
Which is precisely why she won the prize in the first place.
Machado understands this, Trump doesn't.
Which is precisely why she won the prize in the first place.
January 17, 2026 at 8:08 AM
Owning a medal doesn't make you a medal winner, it makes you a medal owner.
Machado understands this, Trump doesn't.
Which is precisely why she won the prize in the first place.
Machado understands this, Trump doesn't.
Which is precisely why she won the prize in the first place.
Variation on a theme (but I think I like this one more...):
I created a Minute Cryptic for you to solve: LeAst?! (8)
Give it your best shot!
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I created a Minute Cryptic for you to solve: LeAst?! (8)
Give it your best shot!
www.minutecryptic.com/custom/7b15a...
January 16, 2026 at 6:21 PM
Variation on a theme (but I think I like this one more...):
I created a Minute Cryptic for you to solve: LeAst?! (8)
Give it your best shot!
www.minutecryptic.com/custom/7b15a...
I created a Minute Cryptic for you to solve: LeAst?! (8)
Give it your best shot!
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"Based on the information in this EHCP, can you meet child X's needs?"
Secondary school: absolutely not!
Local authority: of course they can!
*Sigh*
Secondary school: absolutely not!
Local authority: of course they can!
*Sigh*
January 16, 2026 at 5:21 PM
"Based on the information in this EHCP, can you meet child X's needs?"
Secondary school: absolutely not!
Local authority: of course they can!
*Sigh*
Secondary school: absolutely not!
Local authority: of course they can!
*Sigh*
"you can't belong to chaos"
Lots of thought provoking points raised in this week's episode.
Always worth a listen 😁
Lots of thought provoking points raised in this week's episode.
Always worth a listen 😁
NEW EPISODE!!
This week we are joined by education legend @tombennett71 to discuss all things behaviour. Don't miss out, it's a cracker :)
Tune in and share if you can!
open.spotify.com/episode/3Wa4...
This week we are joined by education legend @tombennett71 to discuss all things behaviour. Don't miss out, it's a cracker :)
Tune in and share if you can!
open.spotify.com/episode/3Wa4...
What have we got wrong about behaviour? With Tom Bennett
open.spotify.com
January 16, 2026 at 4:38 PM
"you can't belong to chaos"
Lots of thought provoking points raised in this week's episode.
Always worth a listen 😁
Lots of thought provoking points raised in this week's episode.
Always worth a listen 😁
I created a Minute Cryptic for you to solve: drUg hoLdEr (7)
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Minute Cryptic
Solve a clue with a hidden meaning
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January 16, 2026 at 3:51 PM
I created a Minute Cryptic for you to solve: drUg hoLdEr (7)
Give it your best shot!
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I created a Minute Cryptic for you to solve: Cele_rate?! (5)
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Minute Cryptic
Solve a clue with a hidden meaning
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January 16, 2026 at 10:12 AM
I created a Minute Cryptic for you to solve: Cele_rate?! (5)
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I created a Minute Cryptic for you to solve: Pupils fumble fumble (6)
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Minute Cryptic
Solve a clue with a hidden meaning
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January 15, 2026 at 10:44 PM
I created a Minute Cryptic for you to solve: Pupils fumble fumble (6)
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Give it your best shot!
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