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Year 10 homework this week included the classic question "how many piano tuners are there London?". Answers ranged from 6 to 4000!
November 16, 2025 at 6:28 PM
Year 10 homework this week included the classic question "how many piano tuners are there London?". Answers ranged from 6 to 4000!
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Happy/Merry/Blessed Halloween/Samhain/Spooky Season to all who celebrate!
October 31, 2025 at 11:17 AM
Happy/Merry/Blessed Halloween/Samhain/Spooky Season to all who celebrate!
Fun with Y12 FM today!
October 16, 2025 at 4:50 PM
Fun with Y12 FM today!
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Just a few days now until the 2025 National Cipher Challenge opens for registration! If you know someone aged 11-18 who might like codes and ciphers (or who might not yet know that they do!) then get them to take a look at www.cipherchallenge.org on Thursday.
Registration opens 18th September 2025. Competition starts 9th October 2025.
www.cipherchallenge.org
September 15, 2025 at 9:40 AM
Just a few days now until the 2025 National Cipher Challenge opens for registration! If you know someone aged 11-18 who might like codes and ciphers (or who might not yet know that they do!) then get them to take a look at www.cipherchallenge.org on Thursday.
Some fun for Year 10 homework this week
September 15, 2025 at 12:46 PM
Some fun for Year 10 homework this week
Just found this gem! On the Y10 homework today.
September 9, 2025 at 4:57 PM
Just found this gem! On the Y10 homework today.
I see all these posts about Banda machines and even with Google I'm still pretty clueless about what they are.
July 30, 2025 at 7:30 PM
I see all these posts about Banda machines and even with Google I'm still pretty clueless about what they are.
I won a coconut on a coconut shy today! What an exciting village fete.
July 5, 2025 at 7:30 PM
I won a coconut on a coconut shy today! What an exciting village fete.
Some help for my students who forgot calculators for a test today
May 22, 2025 at 8:48 AM
Some help for my students who forgot calculators for a test today
I'm very happy at my current school with no intention of moving but it is still fun to have a peek at the jobs board on TES every now and again!
May 2, 2025 at 10:20 PM
I'm very happy at my current school with no intention of moving but it is still fun to have a peek at the jobs board on TES every now and again!
I've written a practice paper for OCR H245 further maths statistics. It's on my website along with the Edexcel spec papers I wrote a couple of years ago. I'm planning to do a mechanics one in the next week or two as well.
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April 27, 2025 at 5:03 PM
I've written a practice paper for OCR H245 further maths statistics. It's on my website along with the Edexcel spec papers I wrote a couple of years ago. I'm planning to do a mechanics one in the next week or two as well.
swintonmaths.co.uk/indexphp/a-l...
swintonmaths.co.uk/indexphp/a-l...
Union executive election ballot paper sent!
April 22, 2025 at 4:56 PM
Union executive election ballot paper sent!
Scout Camp this weekend - it's looking like a balmy 22 degrees tomorrow! Makes a change from one I ran a few years ago at the same time of year where it was below 0...
April 3, 2025 at 8:02 PM
Scout Camp this weekend - it's looking like a balmy 22 degrees tomorrow! Makes a change from one I ran a few years ago at the same time of year where it was below 0...
As we move into revision season, a reminder that I have written a set of practice papers for Edexcel FM (CP1, CP2, FM1).
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I'm now at a school that teaches OCR, and I'll probably do a similar things for FM mechanics and statistics this year.
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I'm now at a school that teaches OCR, and I'll probably do a similar things for FM mechanics and statistics this year.
A Level Further Maths Resources – Swinton Maths
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March 19, 2025 at 1:44 PM
As we move into revision season, a reminder that I have written a set of practice papers for Edexcel FM (CP1, CP2, FM1).
swintonmaths.co.uk/indexphp/a-l...
I'm now at a school that teaches OCR, and I'll probably do a similar things for FM mechanics and statistics this year.
swintonmaths.co.uk/indexphp/a-l...
I'm now at a school that teaches OCR, and I'll probably do a similar things for FM mechanics and statistics this year.
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In #ALevelMaths #MathsToday (yesterday actually) we started with this lovely activity that someone shared at the maths conference last year. We went on to look at geometric and matrix proofs of the addition formulae.
March 19, 2025 at 7:32 AM
In #ALevelMaths #MathsToday (yesterday actually) we started with this lovely activity that someone shared at the maths conference last year. We went on to look at geometric and matrix proofs of the addition formulae.
Adolescence on Netflix. I watched all four episodes on Sunday. It's incredible. Watch it.
March 18, 2025 at 10:18 PM
Adolescence on Netflix. I watched all four episodes on Sunday. It's incredible. Watch it.
Update: this is fantastic. No fluff, just hundreds upon hundreds of good, well-designed questions.
A very exciting arrival into my pigeonhole. I particularly love the comment about un-italicising ds in differentials!
January 23, 2025 at 9:20 PM
Update: this is fantastic. No fluff, just hundreds upon hundreds of good, well-designed questions.
OCR FM June 2019 Mechanics Q7.
Yuck!
Yuck!
January 22, 2025 at 6:01 PM
OCR FM June 2019 Mechanics Q7.
Yuck!
Yuck!
I think I've taught compound angle formulae every year since I started 5.5 years ago, using this diagram from the Edexcel textbook. I still remember how awfully it went the first time! It's nice to be able to look back and think that I have improved my practice over that time.
January 19, 2025 at 2:50 PM
I think I've taught compound angle formulae every year since I started 5.5 years ago, using this diagram from the Edexcel textbook. I still remember how awfully it went the first time! It's nice to be able to look back and think that I have improved my practice over that time.
I'm very pro maths being assessed by (handwritten) exams, but I despair at students having to do things like this by hand. I taught chi-squared tests last week and it's the same problem.
Most exam questions are fairly sensible and only make them do a small subset of the calculations, but even so...
Most exam questions are fairly sensible and only make them do a small subset of the calculations, but even so...
After the excitement of Euler's method yesterday, I forgot that it meant #MathsToday would be the improved Euler method... which is just a labour-intensive faff 😅
January 17, 2025 at 1:47 PM
I'm very pro maths being assessed by (handwritten) exams, but I despair at students having to do things like this by hand. I taught chi-squared tests last week and it's the same problem.
Most exam questions are fairly sensible and only make them do a small subset of the calculations, but even so...
Most exam questions are fairly sensible and only make them do a small subset of the calculations, but even so...
A very exciting arrival into my pigeonhole. I particularly love the comment about un-italicising ds in differentials!
January 14, 2025 at 2:35 PM
A very exciting arrival into my pigeonhole. I particularly love the comment about un-italicising ds in differentials!
Some fun today. Doing some work on domain and range of functions with Year 12. I asked them to come up with a function with (largest possible) domain [2, 3]U(4, 5). It took them a while!
January 9, 2025 at 4:42 PM
Some fun today. Doing some work on domain and range of functions with Year 12. I asked them to come up with a function with (largest possible) domain [2, 3]U(4, 5). It took them a while!