Congratulations to all those students awarded pass grades 1, 2 and 3 in their GCSEs today. For some it will be less than they wanted, but for others it will bring a great sense of achievement to be celebrated. The next stage awaits.

Tried to reinforce this today by hiding the numbers and asking them to estimate each question. Once they got more confident I asked them to think of something no one else would choose.

After eleven years, it's time to update my London Underground concentric-circles-and-spokes map. Completely redrawn from centre to edges, it's so much better than before, and more geographically accurate than the official map.

Maths, Biology and Chemistry was the most popular combination of three A levels in 2024, with 18720 taking all three (6.1% of the cohort). However, 60.6% of those taking Maths took it alongside something other than Biology or Chemistry (or maybe just on its own) 1/2

A bit of arithmetic series on the telly tonight.

Have you ever wished to view the world from a completely new perspective? This thread on cool maps is here to blow your mind 1. Population Density in China

National Museum of Mathematics (MoMath) Using the Fibonacci numbers to convert from miles to km or vice versa youtu.be/OgdzLIDMrwM

A level grade distributions by subject showing performance for all students, those who took single maths, maths & further maths or no maths at all. Yes, I know about correlation and causation but it still show us how maths students perform better across all subjects

Ahead of #GCSEresults tomorrow, it's worth bearing in mind the disruption to their learning that this year's cohort have endured since the pandemic, writes Dan Worth #ResultsDay tes.com/magazine/analy…

GCSE Maths (9-1) grade boundaries 2017-2024 for the English exam boards

23.9m UK households have access to BBC. More UK Children are not able to access CBeebies, CBBC & CITV. Instead of balanced diet including Numberblocks, children are using "on demand", youtube or... books? Is it library books? could it be? #SocialCohesion theguardian.com/media/article/…