Bryn

Bryn

@brynspiration.com

Maths and Applications of Maths teacher. Higher Apps guy. 'Bryn' rhymes with 'in'. Wrote the Leckie Higher Apps book and share stuff on applyingmaths.com

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Bryn
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Number crunching 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 ITE Maths teachers target: 250 Actual number recruited: 73, the worst in years Maths vacancies right now, weeks into the school year: 16 What’s the plan?

Bryn
@brynspiration.com

Number crunching 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 ITE Maths teachers target: 250 Actual number recruited: 73, the worst in years Maths vacancies right now, weeks into the school year: 16 What’s the plan?

Bryn
@brynspiration.com

First day back with the students. This year’s opener: “What do I, and Olivia Rodrigo, have in common?” Clicks button to reveal school values and classroom rules “We both have expectations.” Perfect groan to smile ratio, would use again.

Bryn
@brynspiration.com

Firat day back with the students. This year’s opener: “What do I, and Olivia Rodrigo, have in common?” Clicks button to reveal school values and classroom rules “We both have expectations.” Perfect groan to smile ratio, would use again.

Bryn
@brynspiration.com

The best challenge on the UK government's vocational subject at 14 push, and food for thought for us in Scotland too.

Daisy Christodoulou@daisychristo.bsky.social

I've weighed in on the great vocational education debate. From what we can see of the govt plans, I think they will repeat mistakes of the past. Also, we need to retire the phrase "parity of esteem". It's not helping. substack.nomoremarking.com/p/the-proble...

substack.nomoremarking.comThe problem with "parity of esteem"Vocational education at age 14 is not the answer
Bryn
@brynspiration.com

Big news on technical education in England. As with all reforms, the two key questions are: what incentives are being created for schools, and do those incentives align with what's best for students?

Bryn
@brynspiration.com

Watched The Invite. Funniest thing I’ve seen in ages - I’d recommend watching at the cinema because the audience reactions are priceless.

Bryn
@brynspiration.com

Yearly reminder that teachers get 75% off a subscription to the Economist. Not sure there's a better teacher discount than that!

Bryn
@brynspiration.com

This is my perfect use case for AI - I want to teach a lesson on sample space in probability and I want to use Monopoly as the hook. I ask for slides that include the opening side of Monopoly, a blank and a filled in sample space diagram, and finally the last slide.

Bryn
@brynspiration.com

The time it takes to read a blog which mentions that Park Lane is the least landed on square, to creating pdf slide deck which allows me to use this as a lesson hook, is minutes. Ready to drop into onenote (or anything else) and use.

Bryn
@brynspiration.com

Gave out a sticker and wrote "good effort" in a student's jotter. She looked aghast and said "but I got all of them right!" We use so many euphemisms, it's funny being caught sincere.

Bryn
@brynspiration.com

One more plug for this blog: Who's Teaching Maths on Monday?

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New blog: Who's Teaching Maths on Monday? Maths recruitment has nose-dived, what are the solutions? applyingmaths.com/2025/09/07/w...

applyingmaths.comWho’s Teaching Maths on Monday?There are 75 people currently on an Initial Teacher Training (ITE) course in Scotland to become a maths teacher, well short of the 250 2024 target. And this isn’t a one-off, the target hasn’t been met...