Marc

Head of Maths.
#ExplicitInstruction, #CogSci, #Oracy, #SEND, #Moreable, #mathscareers
All views my own.

[Stuart Lock @StuartLock]

"The apps are not great", the rest of the day is an expensive summercamp, and there are ~1000 pupils, paying up to $75k/year.

Someone grant me the confidence to then aim to expand a model that doesn't work to one million times as many children & claim ethical motivation.

[Marc @marcmaths]

@aysatakan1 Amazing!

[Marc @marcmaths]

@SimBadd18 @LucyMPowell Lol

[Marc @marcmaths]

@NooseB201 @X5Cucumber @BBCNews Clearly been using a phone to learn.

[Marc @marcmaths]

@BanjaxArena Don't worry, it doesn't cost much.

[Saul Staniforth @SaulStaniforth]

Susanna Reid asks Lucy Powell if the govt are giving schools extra money to fund banning phones

Powell says the costs are relatively small, pouches for example cost around £10,000, & in the grand scheme of things that's not very much

[Marc @marcmaths]

@hkettlemaths Hi Hannah, sorry, another comment.
When I zoom in on my phone, I can't click draw, and when I have draw selected I can zoom in or move around the screen.
Could the draw button be floating and always on screen so it can be turned on and off wherever the user has zoomed?

[Marc @marcmaths]

@hkettlemaths Hi Hannah, this is great.
Could you make adding to document a bit easier?
Maybe a tick box in the bottom right corner of each question.

[Marc @marcmaths]

@oldandrewuk Possibly this:

[Tony Harwood @sciantificnew]

Key stage 3 was always meant to be 3 years and even Ofsted has said as much for a long time. So why now are people up in arms about something that should have been happening all along?

[Adam Boxer @adamboxer1]

@ianwhite21 If I were the SoS I would avoid making announcements from schools like this. I'm sure they are doing a great job at some things, but if the national agenda is NEETs, then it's just strange messaging.

[Marc @marcmaths]

@sciantificnew Fair enough

[Marc @marcmaths]

@sciantificnew @greeborunner Nothing has been said about reducing GCSE content.

[Olly @oIIyjm]

According to @LucyMPowell, this school has designed a curriculum reflective of her desired reforms. She claims this has made it "unmissable".

According to the school's Ofsted report of June 2026, "rates of attendance remain lower than the national average.".

💨🪞

[Marc @marcmaths]

@aysatakan1 @mathsjem @PixiMaths @mrbartonmaths Love it, thanks

[Yorkshire Steve @Yorkshire_Steve]

Hi @JakePhillipsBBC ,

In your article about education reforms on the bbc website today you claimed that Michael Gove prioritised En, Ma and Sc by making exams harder and raising grade boundaries.

[Yorkshire Steve @Yorkshire_Steve]

@englishspecial My advice to the DfE and the Francis review was to do away with the idea of splitting maths into ks3 and ks4. Have a 5 year national curriculum and ensure pupils study it in full over years 7-11.

[Yorkshire Steve @Yorkshire_Steve]

@englishspecial I'd go the other way and, in effect, make all gcses 5 years (in the sense that any content in either ks3 or ks4 national curriculum could be in the exam).

That way schools couldn't 'pick a d choose' to omit some ks3 content safe in the knowledge it wouldn't be assessed.

[Marc @marcmaths]

@PieCorbett @greg_ashman Voice 21 (Peter Hyman) is Oracy in the UK.

[Michael Allan @mrallanmaths]

Session went well, but I was up against the amazing Tara Harper so only had a handful of people. No matter. You can all view my presentation at:

https://t.co/xajPjZPV0k
(Best viewed on a desktop/laptop)

Please share the site with your colleagues.

https://t.co/suHlyNKC8r 😎

[Marc @marcmaths]

@greg_ashman @fotomat_app Numeracy is a very fuzzy concept.
Oracy even more so