Sharon Malley
@malleymaths.bsky.social
Maths teacher, poetry lover, always ready to learn more.
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In #MathsToday I did this as a starter on estimation.
With the aim of getting pupils to consider which counters are the 'significant' ones.
With the aim of getting pupils to consider which counters are the 'significant' ones.
September 22, 2025 at 4:43 PM
In #MathsToday I did this as a starter on estimation.
With the aim of getting pupils to consider which counters are the 'significant' ones.
With the aim of getting pupils to consider which counters are the 'significant' ones.
Tagging for myself to come back to. 😍
1. researchschool.org.uk/greenshaw/ne...
2. researchschool.org.uk/greenshaw/ne...
Hopefully these provide a helpful starting point - all feedback welcome so please do share!
2. researchschool.org.uk/greenshaw/ne...
Hopefully these provide a helpful starting point - all feedback welcome so please do share!
Exploring Disciplinary Literacy in Maths
In advance of our webinar, Amarbeer Singh Gill considers how we read, consume and process mathematical information.
researchschool.org.uk
April 13, 2025 at 8:52 AM
Tagging for myself to come back to. 😍
Love this post on the maths for calculating when Easter is. I’m always proud of myself for just knowing it’s the first Sunday after the first full moon after the spring equinox.
April 13, 2025 at 8:47 AM
Love this post on the maths for calculating when Easter is. I’m always proud of myself for just knowing it’s the first Sunday after the first full moon after the spring equinox.
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In #mathstoday, inspired by @colinfoster77.bsky.social’s Mathematical Etudes, we’ve been combining mathematical thinking and fluency practice 😁 lots of rich conversations all round. Not bad for the last day of a very long term! 😴
April 11, 2025 at 2:12 PM
In #mathstoday, inspired by @colinfoster77.bsky.social’s Mathematical Etudes, we’ve been combining mathematical thinking and fluency practice 😁 lots of rich conversations all round. Not bad for the last day of a very long term! 😴
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It was a privilege to keynote at #ACPConference25 with Maths Mastery and Ark Curriculum this afternoon.
In my 1 hour talk, I explored the difficulties that students have with problem solving - issues that we would also have... ⤵️⤵️
In my 1 hour talk, I explored the difficulties that students have with problem solving - issues that we would also have... ⤵️⤵️
January 14, 2025 at 5:05 PM
It was a privilege to keynote at #ACPConference25 with Maths Mastery and Ark Curriculum this afternoon.
In my 1 hour talk, I explored the difficulties that students have with problem solving - issues that we would also have... ⤵️⤵️
In my 1 hour talk, I explored the difficulties that students have with problem solving - issues that we would also have... ⤵️⤵️
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In #MathsToday with Y11 I tried to draw attention to when you can and can't add terms together. Interleaving this with multiplying expressions, which can always be "done".
A natural extension would be to start giving sums and products and reversing the process...we didn't get that far though!
A natural extension would be to start giving sums and products and reversing the process...we didn't get that far though!
January 14, 2025 at 7:35 PM
In #MathsToday with Y11 I tried to draw attention to when you can and can't add terms together. Interleaving this with multiplying expressions, which can always be "done".
A natural extension would be to start giving sums and products and reversing the process...we didn't get that far though!
A natural extension would be to start giving sums and products and reversing the process...we didn't get that far though!
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Here's the kicker: "when ants work in groups, their performances rise significantly. Groups of people do not show such improvement and, when their communication is restricted, even display deteriorated performances."
It's great that this paper includes movie clips of humans and ants in action!
It's great that this paper includes movie clips of humans and ants in action!
December 27, 2024 at 8:22 PM
Here's the kicker: "when ants work in groups, their performances rise significantly. Groups of people do not show such improvement and, when their communication is restricted, even display deteriorated performances."
It's great that this paper includes movie clips of humans and ants in action!
It's great that this paper includes movie clips of humans and ants in action!
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New blog post: 'Taxing Tasks with Turtles'. Looks at a selection of geometry problems and investigations that can be explored by using a small amount of coding.
#ukmathschat #EduSky
ponderingplanning.wordpress.com/2024/11/16/t...
#ukmathschat #EduSky
ponderingplanning.wordpress.com/2024/11/16/t...
November 16, 2024 at 8:28 AM
New blog post: 'Taxing Tasks with Turtles'. Looks at a selection of geometry problems and investigations that can be explored by using a small amount of coding.
#ukmathschat #EduSky
ponderingplanning.wordpress.com/2024/11/16/t...
#ukmathschat #EduSky
ponderingplanning.wordpress.com/2024/11/16/t...
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One of my favourite bits of #maths #history is, in 1557, Robert Recorde (🏴) gets so fed up repeating the same thing over and over again that, in order...
"to avoid the tediouse repetition of these woordes: is equalle to"
... he just gives up and invents the equals sign: =
🏛️🎓 […]
"to avoid the tediouse repetition of these woordes: is equalle to"
... he just gives up and invents the equals sign: =
🏛️🎓 […]
Original post on mathstodon.xyz
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November 26, 2024 at 5:30 PM
Putting this on my must watch list.
My husband teaches in a sex-separated school. Every year he shows his senior boys "The Mask You Live In." Every year he has 17-19 year olds *sobbing* in class. therepproject.org/films/the-ma...
THE MASK YOU LIVE IN - The Representation Project
The Mask You Live In follows boys and young men struggling to stay true to themselves while negotiating America’s narrow definition of masculinity.
therepproject.org
November 10, 2024 at 9:24 AM
Putting this on my must watch list.
Listening to some nineties Britpop in the car and I think I have found my teacher theme tune 🎶 “you don’t have to have the solutions, you have to understand the problem, and not go looking for a miracle”🎶. I’d like it to play, whenever I pressed a big red button on my desk.
November 10, 2024 at 9:07 AM
Listening to some nineties Britpop in the car and I think I have found my teacher theme tune 🎶 “you don’t have to have the solutions, you have to understand the problem, and not go looking for a miracle”🎶. I’d like it to play, whenever I pressed a big red button on my desk.