Jess Sands

Joint Leader of Maths (KS3) * NCETM Mastery Specialist * ECT Mentor * NPQLT * All views are my own.

Currently on Mat leave and enjoying being a mum of two 🥰

[Jess Sands @MsSandsMaths]

Don Steward questions on substituting into formulas made into a self-marking online worksheet. You need to register with https://t.co/0vVuZdqJPH to access and share. #donsteward
https://t.co/rdFWQKtiQT

[Jess Sands @MsSandsMaths]

@ArborEdu Is it possible to input data for two-tiered assessments during a single data drop on your summative marksheets? For example for cohorts where some students are doing higher and others foundation papers?

[Jess Sands @MsSandsMaths]

@MsLimbada @RossBritton @SparxMaths Ah yes this blog is really helpful! Read it a couple of days ago and I've already started planning to integrate homework and classwork.

[Jess Sands @MsSandsMaths]

What are other schools doing to stop or discourage students using AI tools to do their homework on @SparxMaths or similar platforms? Please retweet for a wider reach.

[Jess Sands @MsSandsMaths]

@theFamilyIsland A

[Jess Sands @MsSandsMaths]

@hartmaths @MrBMaths3 @SparxMaths We used to do that when students used Hegarty but phased it out with Sparx due to the inbuilt bookwork checks. Maybe it's time to bring it back. Do you sanction students if they have done the homework on Sparx but not in their booklet?

[Adam Boxer @adamboxer1]

It was my turn at work to do Thought For The Day and normally I think of my own but today I just read out every word of this banger of a blog from @tstarkey1212

https://t.co/PwDT61hIJI

[Jamie Clark @XpatEducator]

🧵 THREAD! Since introducing these one-pagers in my school in 2022, I’ve seen teachers’ engagement with evidence informed ideas sky-rocket. Teachers are time-poor, so distilling important ideas into an easily digestible format offers a practical solution. Here are 7 ways one-pagers support educators…

[Bridget Phillipson @bphillipsonMP]

Ms Haq showed me there was no ceiling on what I or my friends could achieve.

She set high standards and saw no reason we should not meet them. This is the difference great teachers make.

That's why we start now fixing the recruitment & retention crisis.
https://t.co/nJm1hjXF76

[Laura @mathsteacher09]

Beautiful questions like these are why I use @mathspad all day everyday. You can’t answer them without understanding, but they’re not too difficult. I love @mathspad so much. And I will keep shouting that from the rooftops.

[Jess Sands @MsSandsMaths]

@AdamHighcliffe behaviour, routines, curriculum etc are made to support their most vulnerable learners. Rules and routines can be and are applied with care and inclusively. A lot of pupils with SEND benefit from this.

[Jess Sands @MsSandsMaths]

@AdamHighcliffe ...have SEND themselves. A class of 30 students isn't the right environment for everyone to be educated in. Also I've visited schools with these kind of behaviour policies (silent corridors etc) and honestly was taken aback at how inclusive they are. Most decisions around (2/n)

[Jess Sands @MsSandsMaths]

Does anyone know when today's Edexcel GCSE Maths paper 1 will be available on Emporium? @MathsNot @PearsonEdexcel

[Mark Dawes @mdawesmdawes]

Hey #CoreMaths teachers. Here's a ridiculous graph (from Telegraph). Clearly 20-24 yr olds will have shorter tenure in their current job (none of them can have over 20 yrs working there!). Some 20-24s will only have been on the job market for a couple of years.

[Graham Cumming @MathsNot]

I imagine there’ll be some interest in this - make sure your voice is heard!
https://t.co/c9Q5Zk1op6

[Jess Sands @MsSandsMaths]

Great task- it's so common to get these concepts confused.

[Adam Mercer @AMercerMaths]

Meanwhile whilst the toddler naps, I had a quick idea for our common curriculum on probability vocabulary involving events and outcomes, and the differences between the two. Can anyone think of any I could have missed? #mathschat

[Dr Frost Resource Team @DrFrostResource]

*NEW RESOURCE * on @DrFrostMaths :
Completing the Square by @draustinmaths
Take a look here: https://t.co/YuZVcGdh6R

[Cliff Pickover @pickover]

Mathematics and mystery.

Shiver in ecstasy. The circle that fits precisely inside a 3-4-5 Pythagorean triangle has an area of π. OMG.

[Catriona @catrionateaches]

Further update thanks to some feedback from @mrsouthernmaths - adding a probability of 0.7888 to the bottom row of Q2 to make it easier to compare to Q7, and also fixing the X/M issue in Q6.
If anyone else has used this and has some feedback I'd love to hear it.