Manipulatives in slides? Useful? I'm trying to make things have the least amount of faff. Hence the zero pair button.

Yeah I saw this in a BBC article today. You always get this kind of factoid without any commentary. Nobody would seriously think that 10 days absence is the cause of such a dramatic reduction, yet often it seems presented that way.

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#todayinmaths we "Saved that baby". The end of a four week project where students use some formulae, charts, and measuring skills to work out the dosage of medicine needed for saving a baby.

So apparently 5% = 1 on your mobile phone calculator. Good to know!

Here's a prompt from Reddit. What's the better way of packing, this way or the traditional full circle?

New bad graph just dropped.
Source: www.bbc.co.uk/sport/footba...

At attempt at a diagram.
The difference of b and c removed from a is the same as removing b from a and then adding c.

In #mathstoday we looked at multiplying by a negative as changing direction. Nice to link with enlargements and reflections too!

More great ones like this here: donsteward.blogspot.com/2018/03/arit...

Probability. One for Higher Apps or Core Maths.

Teaching Inflation tomorrow. Completely forgot I'd made this short and sweet task.
www.applyingmaths.com/financial-pr...

Prompt for discussing precision/accuracy, an old joke.

Seeing a dinosaur skeleton, a tourist at the Natural History Museum asks the guard, "How old are they?"
The guard replies, "73 million, four years, and six months old."
"How can you be so precise?" asks the tourist incredulously.

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