Hannah Gostling

Maths teacher. Loves maths, especially hexagons - they're the best!

[London MathsJam @LONMathsJam]

MathsJam is on tonight, hope you can join us...when we find a table

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@alisonkiddle @TeaKayB Oh dear oh dear @TeaKayB we need to have words...

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Nooooo!!!!!!

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Here's my super low tech Neighbours square for #24hrmathssquares Managed to score 225 I think...

Woohoo @24hmaths !!!!

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@wonderofscience But why?????

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Rhubarb Hexagons!

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@tkendalluk Actually, now I realise that this may not work well, depending on the function (my brain was focussed on how matrices transform the whole plane). It might still work if your fn crosses the line x = a more than once perhaps, but I'm not sure I'd use this as a failsafe method!!!

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@tkendalluk Is there some merit in talking about invariant points??? if you take all the points that lie on the mirror line, they won't move? you could do this backwards as a big reveal. Suggest some coords and sub in, notice the invariants and plot them, magically the line x = a appears...?

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@nicole_cozens get som jelly and ice cream ready!

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@mathematicsprof this is one of my favourite theorems too!!! who woulda thought you just sum the residues????

[MathsAppeal @MathsAppeal]

Happy #NationalNumeracyDay! 🥳🎉

To celebrate, we have a big announcement: Maths Appeal IS BACK!!!

@Bobby_Seagull & @DoTheMathsThing will return on 6th June, but if you can't wait until then, get your ears around our series 2 trailer!:https://t.co/qrs7EyUh9z via @acast

[Susan Okereke @DoTheMathsThing]

#HappyNationalNumeracyDay! 🎉
Here’s my #BigNumberNatter video with @Nat_Numeracy, the UK’s first nationwide conversation about numbers. More info here https://t.co/gXhJXqL44N

And check out the @MathsAppeal podcast for fun #puzzles back for a new series! #mathsisforeveryone

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@MathsImpact least a few full questions in their book so that I can see what they write and how they lay it out, without the danger of it being wiped away. So much of maths is about communicating precisely and I want to make sure their solutions will get marks in the exam.

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@MathsImpact I encourage my Alevel students to use it for revision, and some do. I think they also use it to refer to examples when practising.

Some students insist on using MWB for everything, and while I can see some benefits to it's non permanent nature, I really want them to do at...

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@karenshancock love the questions underneath, super! I'd be interested to hear how the students get on with it!

Incidentally, we call this method 'reverse chain rule' rather than inspection. It encourages students to look out for the derivative of the 'inside' function in the integrand.

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@karenshancock p.s. are you teaching this at the moment or is it for revision?

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@karenshancock I'm really interested to see which method is preferred by both teachers and pupils. We teach both of these methods but I definitely have a preference for method 2 while my colleague prefers method 1. Students are a mix, but I think method 1 mostly.

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@ColinTheMathmo got it!

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@Bobby_Seagull It was more like an @OnlyConnectQuiz question than UC?? loved it, but super hard!

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@NatBanting how can anyone get embroidery that neat!?!? Are the equations hand stitched? it's impeccable!