Mr Pollard

Lead Teacher of Maths @ The British School in The Netherlands (SSL-Senior School Liedschenveen)
Husband, dad, geek, perpetually curious, striving for humility.

[Mr Pollard @mrpollardmaths]

@MathsNot Is this really such a mystery. I thought they standardise per subject for grade 9, 7 and 4 and then the inbetween grades are split into equal sized widths. Then it would simply depend if the students raw scores are equally distributed. If not then you might get dips as seen above

[Mr Pollard @mrpollardmaths]

@1stclassmaths @TeamYouTube This is mad! It is clearly aimed at students older than 12!

[Richard Dare FCCT MA CTeach @dare_richard]

@1stclassmaths @TeamYouTube @TeamYouTube, @1stclassmaths produces great resources for students older than 12.

[1st Class Maths @1stclassmaths]

My papers are likely to be incredibly late due a battle with @TeamYouTube who are demonetising my videos saying they are aimed at kids below age 12. I'd really appreciate if you can tag @TeamYouTube and retweet this. It's literally crippling my income at a key time of year.

[Mr Pollard @mrpollardmaths]

@greg_ashman I can see the logic in your argument & it feels intuitively correct to me. However, I wonder, how much do different people's brains distinguish between these types of trauma? If they do, is it linear or logarithmic? Is seeing a horrific thing happen to 50 people x10 worse than 5?

[Mr Pollard @mrpollardmaths]

@adamboxer1 Other than profits... They often reorder rebrand & recycle previous content & charge a premium for error strewn content. eg Oxford IB AA Higher Level textbook is so full of known errors & yet I still paid (presuming the errors would have been corrected & reprinted) £60+ per book!

[Mr Pollard @mrpollardmaths]

@Jawgenius @drum980 @DanielKebedeNEU @ToeKneesTweets @suttontrust You are right. Many means a large countable number. But large is relative. For polygons, the poly means 3 or more (a triangle being the base polygon). For functions, a many-to-one mapping means means 2 or more elements of the domain map to an element of the range.

[Mr Pollard @mrpollardmaths]

@ToeKneesTweets Lovely chatting. Have a nice afternoon.

[Mr Pollard @mrpollardmaths]

@ToeKneesTweets @drum980 @DanielKebedeNEU @suttontrust I don't know what you want me to say. Do you want me to read it for you?

[Mr Pollard @mrpollardmaths]

@drum980 @DanielKebedeNEU @ToeKneesTweets @suttontrust What is your definition of "many"? He didn't say a majority. As a maths teacher many usually means more than one. Anything with poly as a prefix (poly is Greek for many) means more than 1. But we are getting off the point. Do you have other objections other than his use of many?

[Mr Pollard @mrpollardmaths]

@drum980 @DanielKebedeNEU @ToeKneesTweets @suttontrust Is it really so difficult in literally two clicks from the home page you get here: https://t.co/LNpQ0OPz4c

[Mr Pollard @mrpollardmaths]

@JohnBaldLangLit @amanda_spielman Yes please.

[Mr Pollard @mrpollardmaths]

@JohnBaldLangLit @amanda_spielman You should start a MAT and roll out your model at scale to show how other schools can reach the same levels.

[Colin Hegarty @hegartymaths]

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[Mark McCourt @EmathsUK]

I have recently written a new curriculum for 5-18 mathematics.

I think the approach to curriculum design is unlike anything that currently exists. I also think it is precisely what we need.

I will publish a full discourse shortly. But first, I would like to stress test my thinking.

At 7pm on Thursday, I will present my ideas in a live webinar.

I would like to invite all those interested in mathematics curriculum design to join me, hear me out, and share your thoughts.

If you would like to attend, please send me a DM with your email and I will add you to the invitation list, with a link to the webinar.

Being able to articulate the thinking behind the curriculum and receive feedback and criticism from expert mathematics educators and mathematicians will be enormously helpful.

Hope to see you there.

[Mr Pollard @mrpollardmaths]

@Just_Maths Vocabulary, fluency, connections. I nearly put comprehension rather than vocabulary.

[Seb Ate @Mrbaiti]

2mins of Hashi Mohamed absolutely smashing the Conservatives Rwanda policy to bits.👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

‘Our learned judges said the Home Office hadn’t even assessed that policy before adopting it

It’s unviable, it’s expensive & the only people it’s going to work for is the Rwandans’ #BBCQT

[JustMaths @Just_Maths]

Remember … at your absolute best you won’t be good enough for the worst people BUT at your worst you’re still worth it to the best people.

[Rachel Mears (Lofthouse) @DrRLofthouse]

My definition of a great teacher? Stop this endless expectation of ‘better’. A great teacher works well enough to ensure each lesson & class they teach over time learns well. That each individual they teach feels valued. That each colleague they have is glad they work with them.