Dawn Jenkinson

[Jeremy Wayne Tate @JeremyTate41]

Why do we do math in school?

When I asked this question as a kid, my teachers always told me, “You’ll use it one day.”

That’s almost always false.

Most adults are never going to be in a sticky situation with two binomials, thinking, thank goodness I can FOIL my way out of this mess. Most of us get by just fine without ever solving for x again.

And especially in an AI age, fewer and fewer people will “use math” in the narrow, practical sense.

But the origins of math have never been primarily about utility.

Math is formative. It trains the mind to love what is true, to recognize what is orderly, and to be drawn toward what is beautiful. It teaches us that the universe is not chaos, but something intelligible, something structured, something that can be known.

And you can see that truth made visible in the world’s most breathtaking churches and cathedrals: arches, vaults, domes, proportions, symmetry, harmony, light—geometry turned into glory. The mathematics that shapes a cathedral is not cold or sterile. It’s the language of wonder, carved into stone.

We don’t teach math because everyone will use it.

We teach math because it forms the kind of person who can see that reality has meaning.

[Katharine Birbalsingh @Miss_Snuffy]

I wore a dress for my Cambridge Union debate earlier this year.

The President of the Oxford Union, George Abaraonye, is below, debating Charlie Kirk at the Oxford Union.😱

Now he mocks Charlie’s death.

Teaching children to wear a uniform with pride matters.

[Katharine Birbalsingh @Miss_Snuffy]

Following my meeting on Monday with the Education Secretary @bphillipsonMP my open letter to her is below and here:
https://t.co/O9T19eJaXr

My first open letter to her on 17 Jan is here: https://t.co/phAiybzQFx

[Austin Friars School @AustinFriarsSch]

Wear your wellies! 🚜

A group of 5th Formers are asking pupils and staff to show their support for UK farming communities by wearing clean wellies to school tomorrow (19th November).

[Dr. Eli David @DrEliDavid]

Rowan Atkinson on free speech, and how it is threatened in Britain 🇬🇧

[Katharine Birbalsingh @Miss_Snuffy]

Of course Tik Tok should be banned for under 16s.

But you already knew that.

[Katharine Birbalsingh @Miss_Snuffy]

America gets it.

We need to get it too.

[Katharine Birbalsingh @Miss_Snuffy]

Whether Michaela is first or fifth on Progress is unimportant.

We won’t always have the top place.

But I can tell you this: any school that does, will teach traditionally, have strong discipline and an overall ethos that binds the kids together.

Guaranteed. ✊🏾

[Katharine Birbalsingh @Miss_Snuffy]

Below is my open letter to Sir Keir Starmer ⁦@Keir_Starmer⁩ regarding the behaviour of his Shadow Minister Jess Phillips.

[Sky News @SkyNews]

"For some reason the Privileges Committee thinks it's in communist China and we must kowtow"

Jacob Rees-Mogg speaks as MPs debate the report that found Boris Johnson lied about partygate in the Commons

https://t.co/PAiZ4D1jU3

📺 Sky 501, Virgin 602, Freeview 233 and YouTube

[Dawn Jenkinson @DawnJenkinson]

@SimonScarrow @DrProudman 👏👏

[Linsey @FleetTwins]

Great start to the season for our @SeatonRangersRL u11s who faced @DistingtonARL this morning in the first game of the season.

Some good rugby played from both sides, well done all involved 👏

#iwannabeaseatonranger

[Sky News @SkyNews]

BREAKING: Former Prime Minister Boris Johnson has issued a statement following the release of the Privileges Committee's partygate report.

https://t.co/WUnquWvHqf

📺 Sky 501, Virgin 602, Freeview 233 and YouTube

[Michelle Dewberry @MichelleDewbs]

I’ve had the misfortune of sitting at a bedside day & night in an intensive care unit, praying that my child would survive.

How any nurse could walk away from those units/wards, to go on strike, is simply beyond me. I find it utterly heartbreaking & I will be honest, wrong.

💔

[Dawn Jenkinson @DawnJenkinson]

@MichaelBaumber @BBCNews You do realise they dont decide to give themselves a pay rise? Honestly you people comment and you haven't bothered to do any research. 🫣

[Dawn Jenkinson @DawnJenkinson]

@_christtopher_ @loftedondrive @BBCNews What do you think they get on their expenses?

[Dawn Jenkinson @DawnJenkinson]

@Matty_Cs_World @loftedondrive @BBCNews How do you think they abuse their expenses?!

[Dawn Jenkinson @DawnJenkinson]

@DAIlike @loftedondrive @BBCNews What rubbish. Many MPs work all hours. You see what the media want you to see.

[Dawn Jenkinson @DawnJenkinson]

@griffquay @loftedondrive @BBCNews What benefits do you think they claim?

[Dawn Jenkinson @DawnJenkinson]

@Whiskitter @KaraKimbaya @BBCNews What exactly do you think they use expenses for?