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Lizi Pepper
@mathspeptalk.bsky.social
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Secondary Maths NCETM Mastery Specialist (cohort 7). KS3 Curriculum Lead. Lead Practitioner. Masters in Education. NPQLT.
I am an absolute learning nerd, all things Maths, education and Maths education!
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I enjoyed doing this question with Y7 #MathsToday. I need to remember to revisit this with Y8 when they start standard form - it’s exactly the way I want them to be thinking about it.
Four students write the number 2,500,000 in words. Two and a half million. Two million, five hundred thousand Twenty-five hundred thousand. A quarter of a billion. Which are correct? Use a place value chart to help. The four descriptions from the previous slide modelled in four place value charts.
November 25, 2025 at 4:56 PM
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morrismaths359.bsky.social
#Mathstoday
Year 8 finished their section on simplifying expressions ending with adding x^2 types to the mix. They also got to do some finding expressions of perimeter questions.
November 25, 2025 at 3:35 PM
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interactive-maths.bsky.social
After #MathsToday I created a new fill in the blanks generator on Normal Distribution.

www.interactive-maths.com/normal-distr...

You can choose what is revealed / hidden for any randomly generated distribution by clicking. Easy to screenshot into a presentation, or use live.
A bell curve with the area greater than 40.8 shaded with the area marked as 0.1044, and then 8 related questions with blanks to fill in.
November 24, 2025 at 8:50 PM
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ronpaq.bsky.social
With Year 11 F today we are beginning to revisit nth term rules of arithmetic sequences. First, a task I made deducing the hundredth term of sequences constructed with dots and "describing" the nth term. #mathstoday
November 21, 2025 at 9:32 AM
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studymaths.bsky.social
I used this yesterday with Y7. The number line helped them get their heads around the idea that there is one more "jump" than blanks to fill.

#MathsToday
Four linear sequences all starting at 7 and ending at 19 but with a different number of gaps to fill for each (1, 2, 3, 5)
November 20, 2025 at 10:12 AM
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morrismaths359.bsky.social
#Mathstoday
Got to start expressions with my other year 8 group today.
November 20, 2025 at 3:25 PM
mathspeptalk.bsky.social
Loving simplifying surds using areas of squares and side lengths in #MathsToday
November 19, 2025 at 1:54 PM
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November 11, 2025 at 6:44 AM
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ronpaq.bsky.social
I love teaching quadratics. I find there it makes a lovely closed universe to explore. And we start with factorising! Today, my favourite factorising task with some low-prior attaining Year 11s. They hate how the numbers are "the same", but it gets them thinking. #mathstoday
November 5, 2025 at 10:58 AM
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💡 No calculators allowed! 😈

A great one to finish a lesson on equating bases. Perfect for testing those laws of indices!

#maths #mathsteacher #iteachmaths #MathsToday
November 3, 2025 at 5:49 PM
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In #MathsToday a brilliant opportunity to work at my school for a temporary period. It is an amazing school, supportive department and an excellent opportunity for the right person. Please share with anyone who it might suit:
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Tytherington School, United Kingdom
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October 25, 2025 at 9:24 AM
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mrlevmaths.bsky.social
Trickier Surds questions with Y11 in #MathsToday

I love writing questions based on fun maths challenge qus and found these I wrote a while ago that I really like

PPT on old blog post here: chelekmaths.com/2023/06/20/s...
October 16, 2025 at 4:33 PM
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If you can’t identify data that would prove you wrong, you are not really data-driven.
October 16, 2025 at 7:04 PM
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hannahkettlemaths.bsky.social
Next cover lesson is up! Unit 2 Foundation - simplifying expressions, indices, expanding, factorising and substitution etc. Print the double sided worksheet and use the video to support students. www.hannahkettlemaths.co.uk/cover
#mathstoday
October 10, 2025 at 6:43 PM
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studymaths.bsky.social
I used this task this week to introduce Y10 to simultaneous equations.

Drawing attention to important decisions that need to be made.

#MathsToday
"What's the same and what's different?" 4 pairs of simultaneous equations with very similar coefficients.
October 4, 2025 at 8:45 AM
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#mathstoday Brilliant time with @vwheelhouse.bsky.social in session 1 of MEI’s TGM:Live course, discussing use of ratio tables, double number lines and bar models to support GCSE students to tackle ratio problems. Not too late to join this fantastic cohort of teachers: mei.org.uk/teaching-gcs...
September 24, 2025 at 5:10 PM
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In #MathsToday we used this ncetm checkpoint and followed it up with this Don Steward beauty donsteward.blogspot.com/2013/12/near... for Functional Skills level 1 #FEMaths
Arranging digits ncetm task
September 16, 2025 at 7:08 PM
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New blog post on this PYTHAGOREAN SQUARES day! Go For Geometry! 7 is here, how to build the squares-on-sides Pythagorean figure with all technology platforms!
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Happy 9-16-25!
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Go For Geometry! 7
Using Dynamic Technology to Build Understanding ◊ Episode 7: Pythagorean Squares◊ Today is a “perfect square day” since the date is 9-16-25 (or 16-9-25 if you live somewhere that puts the day first…
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September 16, 2025 at 1:37 PM
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MathsTeachers - looking for an excellent CPD? I would highly recommend @mathshubs. Everyone of their courses are brilliant! Please share. Thank you.
June 26, 2025 at 5:26 PM
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#mathstoday
My year 8 LPA were using mathsbot today to help them collect like terms. It worked really well
June 12, 2025 at 1:10 PM
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In #ALevelMaths today, our @ncetm.bsky.social GLOW Maths Hub workgroup planned, delivered and reflected on a lesson for my Year 13 group on modelling with trigonometry at North Bromsgrove High School.
Pupils were brilliant, the participants enjoyed it, and all of us are now inspired from this!
June 2, 2025 at 9:09 PM
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In #MathsToday using my fave algebra tiles to factorise quadratics, so that students can visualise which factor pair they need
June 3, 2025 at 5:40 PM
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catrionaagg.bsky.social
More Y9 trig #MathsToday: we ditched the tables in favour of drawing multipliers directly onto the triangles. This lesson went pretty well! Still just using sin and cos, and today I kept everything in one orientation as well.
Three triangles, with working in a ratio table to find a missing length. The same three triangles and answers with the tables removed, and the title How might we skip the table? The reference triangle with multipliers drawn on: x sin(a) goes from the hypotenuse of 1 to the opposite of sin(a), and x cos(a) goes from the hypotenuse of 1 to the adjacent of cos(a). Four questions that have been solved by drawing multipliers onto the triangles
May 21, 2025 at 4:27 PM
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May 20, 2025 at 3:02 PM
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catrionaagg.bsky.social
For the next stage of our trig lessons, we looked at the unit circle and introduced sine and cosine as a way to generate a reference triangle for any angle. At this stage they’re still then using similarity and ratio tables to find the missing sides. #MathsToday
We have seen these numbers before... On the left is a picture of the unit circle with an angle of 30 degrees and the sine and cosine lengths marked on. On the right is a triangle with side lengths of 1,0.5 and 0.866 which is labelled 30 degree reference triangle. The ultimate reference triangle: a right angled triangle with an angle a and side lengths of 1, cos(a) and sin(a) Using your reference triangles, write down the value of 1. sin (35) = 0.574 2. cos (35) = 0.819 3. sin (20) = 0•342 4. Sin (5) = 0•087 5. cos (40) = 0.766 6. cos (15) = 0.966 7. cos (10) = 0.985 8. Sin (60) = 0•866 9. cos (80) = 0.174 10. cos (55) =0.574 11. cos (25) = 0.906 12. sin (85) = 0.996 A triangle with sides 22 and an and an angle of 64.5 degrees. Next to it is a ratio table which has been used to set up an equation to find a
May 19, 2025 at 4:22 PM