Stuart

These questions are really testing graph sketching of step functions. The definite integral is only there to make it a multiple choice answer

Today's TMUA warm-up question

Currently creating a workbook for A2 Differentiation and wondering at what point I'll give up ensuring every 'd' is non-italicised in equations... #lifestooshort

Just spotted this AQA question (AS 2020) - nice tying together of skills

To help a couple of students who have joined us for Y13, I've had to pick out exactly how much of the Year 2 content we actually cover in Y12.

In bonus #MathsToday I worked with a student preparing for TMUA - looking at 2023 Paper 2 questions on necessary / sufficient conditions in many contexts, plus advice on how not to be intimidated in questions like this one. Great fun!

Sometimes two wrongs do make a right.. just marking some work where a student has replaced sin²x with (1-cos x)² and then expanded that to 1-cos²x

So, normal autumn/winter weather then... www.bbc.co.uk/weather/arti...

It would be hilarious if there was a mass influx of people seeking asylum in the 'principality of Piddington' www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

In #MathsToday, my year 13 #ALevelMaths tackled @draustinmaths.com match up activity for arc length and perimeter in radians. Nice little mix of problems to solve www.draustinmaths.com/a-level

If you want to purchase Argos, the code is 786/3594 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

I don’t want to brag, but I’m pretty sure I could run a mile in under 27 years too

For anyone interested, I've uploaded one of our booklets for sharing (Unit 1 : Points and Lines) but this is still a work in progress to some extent! sxpmaths.wordpress.com/wp-content/u...

The more you stare at this, the worse it gets. Going to ask students how many faults they can find with it!

In #MathsToday we used some of "Tyler Tutoring"'s TMUA preparation materials. I chose the pack themed around circles (second half of Coordinate Geometry Worksheet 3). A good mix of problems www.tylertutoring.com/tmua

A bit of a mixed reaction to Edexcel Paper 3 from ours, but relief all round that they are done with all their exams!

In #MathsToday we're having fun with proof by induction. Towers of Hanoi (interactive here: towersofhanoi.info/Play.aspx) plus this interactive version of the L-tiling problem I vibe-coded this morning: ukr-reader.github.io/MathsApps/l_...

Not sure I’d trust a language learning app that says I can “Ecome ukannian excerient”...

"Find the largest value of a such that this equation has no real roots." [With the war, Ukraine has moved to online school-leaving exams and this is a question from a Maths practice paper. It was multiple choice but I've only taken a screenshot of the question.]

In #ALevelMaths #Mathstoday we looked at when a cardioid isn't a cardioid and if it has a 'dimple'. A lot to show in one file, but in case it's useful to anyone else here's a Desmos sheet with constant slider www.desmos.com/calculator/d...

In #MathsToday I did my favourite proof by contradiction lesson, using green and red balloons and a pin. Also focussed much more this time around on examples of negations and contradictions before diving into proofs. #ALeveLMaths

I've finally put together a blog about all the changes I've been making to the sequence in which we teach A Level Maths. Let me know if you have any thoughts or questions! sxpmaths.wordpress.com/2026/03/26/a... @tickyvanner.bsky.social @runningstitch314.bsky.social

Some crazy cobwebs in iteration with kx(1-x). All these are now shared at: ukr-reader.github.io/MathsApps/

Basins of attraction for Newton-Raphson on a cubic. I'll try and remember how github works as a place to share these

And one for the trapezium rule. I'm at the stage now where I can type in a carefully phrased one-paragraph prompt and trust it to come up with the goods!

Another bit of AI coding this morning. This one for visualising Normal approx of a Binomial distribution. I like being able to specify exactly how I want it to function rather than making do and clunking around with pre-existing stuff. I just don't have a convenient place for public sharing 🫤

Stuck indoors on a rainy Saturday? Why not pop in an application to come and see what Hurtwood is all about!? Closing date is this Friday. (And then I'll stop re-posting this 😆)

Got the Sunday evening blues? Come and join my team and look forward to Mondays! A level focussed, free meals, no Saturday school, decent holidays.. what’s not to like?!

A friend of mine has just launched this website that I think is pretty great for generating quick starters for A-Level maths and he has started adding some questions for Further Maths too. mrhardymaths.co.uk #MathsToday #ALevelMaths

Come and join my department! We're in the Surrey hills (commutable from Guildford, Dorking, Horsham and beyond). Looking for another mathematician to grow our team. Small classes, mostly A level Maths / FM, ice cream on tap.. what's not to like?! www.tes.com/jobs/vacancy...

In #MathsToday I invented the ‘approximately implies’ sign for small angles in trig.

You might appreciate this @cantabkitty.bsky.social and @themathsbazaar.bsky.social - commas in GRYMG! www.instagram.com/reel/DRw674r...

#mathsonholiday Tessellating pentagons in Bucharest

@draustinmaths.com Thank you for generously sharing all your resources - your site was my first thought when students needed more practice on building up sketches of quadratics!

I’m kinda curious what happens as this number gets bigger. Will it start using standard form? A couple more emails today will get me to 5 digits

It's that time of year again - your annual reminder that if you're a Maths teacher and looking for suitable resources for your classes across KS3 to KS5 then do check out www.draustinmaths.com. The site is five years old this week 🎉🎉 and in that time it's amassed over 1000 resources! 1/3

Happy Halloween, shoppers! 😱