MathsWithMsB 🦡

Teaching maths, asking questions, thinking about things, and retweeting, liking and bookmarking a virtual commonplace book.

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Maths resource bank:

https://t.co/wxJ5332T47

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1) Curated collections
@mathsjem's Maths Gems: https://t.co/YgoP3EAfQr
@ColleenYoung's Mathematical Miscellanies:
https://t.co/eJuMrsSq1Y

[Steve Hare @sharemath]

Cognitive Load Theory is one of the most useful frameworks in education. It tells us that working memory is limited, that extraneous complexity impedes learning, that beginners and experts have different instructional needs.

All of that is true.

But it's only ¼ of the story.🧵

[Matt Woodfine @MattTheApp]

Next year we're producing laminated class sets of these help sheets I've made to support our weakest students. They'll be able to use dry wipe pens and use them to support their thinking.

https://t.co/cgTL3V6hPF

https://t.co/9CGNI9t0Gc

#MathsToday #iteachmaths #MathsTeacher

[Tom Gauld @tomgauld]

My latest cartoon for @newscientist

[Becky Allen @profbeckyallen]

Maths teachers have introduced negative numbers for centuries, to millions of children, with a mountain of cognitive science to hand — and still can't agree how to do it. Debt, a thermometer, a number line you walk along. The arguments are detailed, sincere, and unresolved.

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@MrZachG Eg (2) rehabilitation after a stroke: https://t.co/CQZdujZ4GC

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@MrZachG Eg: scans show part of the hippocampus in London taxi drivers grows as they learn 'The Knowledge' - routes around London: https://t.co/Z4vgXUwKW4

[Tom Bennett OBE @tombennett71]

SPEAKER SUBMISSIONS NOW OPEN for researchED 2026, Sept 5th, London. Want to present or support? Contact us HERE https://t.co/7xoKZIfObY

[Tom Sherrington @teacherhead]

How exciting is this !!
Early Learning WalkThrus is on the way .. EYFS and KS1..
🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

[Dylan Wiliam @dylanwiliam]

OK, tweeps, does anyone know of any empirical studies that demonstrate Vygotsky’s key claim that instruction precedes and drives development of higher psychological functions? I've looked, and I can't find any.

[Jo Morgan @mathsjem]

New! My 199th gems post. Ideas, updates and resources for maths teachers. 💎

https://t.co/LHArlPaHg4

#mathsgems #mathschat #teammaths #mathscpdchat #mathstlp

[dan barker @danbarker]

In one of the corners of Trafalgar Square, you'll find the 'imperial standards of length', cast in bronze.

They were put there in 1876, 150 years ago this year, so members of the public could compare their own measuring devices to make sure they were accurate.

[Nathan Day @nathanday314]

In case anyone is still checking Twitter...

Here's something I've been working quite hard on recently:
https://t.co/y57u4b0N6g

A Maths game featuring:
- two-player and single-player modes
- 50+ topics across KS3-KS5

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@adamboxer1 @AlexJQuigley Is it the written equivalent of code-switching/matching speech patterns?

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@MrMac_Math @greg_ashman https://t.co/UDAzSRXpO3

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@MathsladyScott https://t.co/O4hXUOCmBH

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Playing with coins led me to triangular numbers, with cuisenaire rods to number bonds and square numbers, with arrays of objects to factors, multiples and primes, with calculators to negative and imaginary numbers, with scales to algebra, with squared paper to square roots.

[Heather Scott @MathsladyScott]

Enquiry learning is too big a label for this to be true-in maths it's possible to set up situations where pupils make their own discoveries that fill them with a sense of wonder-if this can happen it's important to give all pupils this opportunity. Teaching is a balance🤔😃

[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.

[Zach Groshell @MrZachG]

My dad wouldn’t buy me a lot of stuff, but he had a policy of buying me unlimited books, given I read the ones I already owned. I’m keeping the same policy amid this insane uptick in reading currently taking place at the Groshell household.

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I've been away from Twitter and missed this - off to buy it now!