What exactly do they think the purpose of hiring a tutor is? 🤔 Surely it's getting someone to sit with your child and help them understand maths... 😅

Hope he's feeling OK about them, whatever he got 😊

We have an open evening (until 8pm) next week on Tuesday, and I'm already exhausted thinking about it 😅 Thursday is better, definitely not Fridays though.

Interestingly, I don't think I ever default to y=mx+c, unless I happen to already know the y-intercept...

Yeah, I just grabbed an image from Google to illustrate the formula. Definitely multiply by the denominator first if required.

AQA too. If it just says "find the equation of the tangent" (or whatever) you don't have to convert to y=mx+c. Even if it says in the form ax+by=c, it's still fairly straightforward for students to rearrange it.

You get full marks at A Level even if you don't rearrange it (unless it specifies a certain form)

I definitely prefer it for A Level. I suspect it would also be good for higher GCSE (though probably not foundation) If you know a point on the line, (x1, y1) and the gradient of the line, m, it's just much quicker than faffing about trying to find c. Especially if fractions are involved.

I'm a huge advocate of y-y1=m(x-x1) for the same reasons as you. Unfortunately, by the time students get to me at 16, y=mx+c is so firmly embedded from school that I have a tough time converting most of them 😖

And then one student gets it perfectly right, and you feel vindicated.
"SEE?? I *did* teach them [thing that they all got wrong]!"

I don't remember how I was taught to read. I remember my parents sitting with me and reading a lot, but I couldn't say whether they used phonics or something else 🤔

The standard offers are for 2026 entry (ie for courses that start in September 2026) The historical entry grades are for 2022-2024. Sorry, not much space to be clear in a short post 😅

Why are you quote posting a reply to me? That's very odd behaviour. Do you do this in normal conversations, shouting your reply to everyone in the vicinity?

I just find him really cringe 😅 I guess I like my politicians a bit more serious and policy focused.

It's a moot point, anyway, as I usually vote Labour because my local constituency MP is really good for the area, regardless of the absolute sh*tshow going on nationally!

I'd actually be more likely to vote for Nick Clegg than Ed Davey. I don't remember any of the Lib Dems' policies from the last election, but I do remember every time I scrolled down my news feed seeing images of Davey paragliding or windsurfing or whatever, with an inane grin on his face.

Eww. "Be resilient" = "Come into work and infect other people", or "Put your work before your responsibility to yourself and your own wellness" 🙄

"One never expects to be taken ill, so we declined".
That's the literal point of travel insurance... 🤦‍♀️

...and @mrsouthernmaths.bsky.social and think about using department time to work on those things. Lots of people on here will be able to point you in the right direction if you have specific areas you want to focus on 😊

I can't think of any blogs etc off the top of my head, but as a key stage 5 lead I would think about what kind of things you want to focus on (eg CPD for your team) - there is a lot of good stuff by MEI/AMSP/Casio, or the excellent book on A Level Maths pedagogy by @susanwhitehouse.bsky.social ...