Tracey HughesButters

Mathematics Subject Matter Expert Armidale CSO | Mathematics educator | NSW Premier's scholarship recipient | Apple Distinguished Educator 2015 | Opinions own

[Tracey HughesButters @TraceyHButters]

I am speaking at MANSW Annual Conference. Please checkout the details of my talk at: https://t.co/brAO0wLyTL

[Jimmy Carr @jimmycarr]

A Tribute To Sean Lock https://t.co/3MFNL0SFjo via @YouTube

[BBC News (UK) @BBCNews]

"He was a brilliant comic, he was a wonderful man - a very kind, generous friend and I miss him greatly"

Comedian Bill Bailey pays tribute to his "dearest friend" Sean Lock, who has died from cancer at the age of 58

https://t.co/W0UXW5NZ1Z

[Tracey HughesButters @TraceyHButters]

Wow.

[Channel9 @Channel9]

I Am Woman. A tribute to Helen Reddy. 🙌 #ARIAs

[Cher @cher]

John Lewis & Elijah Cummings
Are Looking Down on us 🙏🏾🙏🏽
Bless Their ❤️❤️

[Tracey HughesButters @TraceyHButters]

Working with amazing staff in the north west to improve students’ learning in maths - and it’s working folks! Focus is on improving teacher knowledge of content and misconceptions, effective teaching and learning and Mathematics.

[Shane Abell @ShaneAbell]

#primarySTEMchat new resource: https://t.co/1tqWJeAL12

[Chandlers Ridge Y3 @Y3CRA]

Y4 are playing a dice game to practise 4 digit column subtraction based on the nice or nasty game from @nrichmaths today. We chose targets to aim for in our answers and the person closest wins!

[Mike Kelly @MikeKellyofEM]

Mr Biden is now ahead in Georgia. An important point to note is that the administration of that State is entirely Republican.

[Tracey HughesButters @TraceyHButters]

@John3999 And we don’t. How does it improve our students’ learning? It doesn’t. How does it improve our students’ thinking? It doesn’t. How does it improve our teachers’ practice? It doesn’t.

[John DeCourcy @John3999]

Moving on from "Do we really need the ATAR?", these researchers ask "Do we really need the HSC?" https://t.co/yXRKjmVGpZ

[Tracey HughesButters @TraceyHButters]

Good to hear universities stating that the HSC is an outdated measure of student achievement - any professional teacher could tell you at the start of Year 11 the ability of each student - how about we give our teachers some credibility?

[Greg Whitby AM. KSG. @gregwhitby]

End of school credentials so much more than an ATAR. Learner profiles make good sense. We should be doing this already, some schools and units already are. Let’s start now! @JordsBaker https://t.co/GoIvsvqmrz via @smh #education

[Richard Wells. M.Ed. @EduWells]

Dance routine ... Programming routine, what's the difference?
Teaching #Code through dance.
15 second TikTok dances are perfect too!
#edTech #Coding

[Catriona Agg @Cshearer41]

The three green rectangles are congruent. What fraction of the square do they cover?

[Ashley McGuire (MakeEmThinkMaths) @McGuirea499]

What equations can you make?
Low starting point- high ceiling task. Pupils can make it as complicated as they like. Practice for algebraic notation.#makeemthink

[Republic of Mathematics @republicofmath]

If left handers form about 10% of the population and people marry randomly with regard to handedness, what is the probability that a marriage will contain at least one left hander? @jamestanton's area model tells us easily and clearly:

[Tracey HughesButters @TraceyHButters]

The system of standardised testing we have, has almost nothing to do with knowledge and everything to do with surveillance - Douglas Thomas (The new culture of Learning)

[Tracey HughesButters @TraceyHButters]

Effect size of teacher performance pay = 0.05 (Hattie) Doesn’t say much for HATs and LTs does it?

[Katie Martin @katiemartinedu]

From Emergency Remote Learning to Effective Learning Any Time, Anywhere https://t.co/SlBsHp0KE8