#Maths goes up in flames!

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In our #MasteringMaths research study our first round of lesson study meetings is underway at Leeds College. We are having a great in-depth discussion about a classroom video of #GCSE resit students working on percentage increase and decrease problems.

I’m migrating to become geoffwake1.bsky.social Join us there! I just posted about this event education.ox.ac.uk/event/mathemat… over there! It’s in-person in Oxford or online. Monday November 25th. Details at education.ox.ac.uk/event/mathemat…

This looks like an excellent free event bringing together international experts. Recommended👇 Details at sites.google.com/view/internati…

Here… linkedin.com/pulse/post-16-… I give some thoughts about post-16 Maths after having read the OECD’s report. Link in the article on LinkedIn

Not long now! If you haven’t registered yet, there is still time! 👇🏽 Teachers of Maths The Mathematical Association Loughborough Department of Mathematics Education WALS Sarah Seleznyov Sarah Leakey Geoff Wake 👇 NAMA Collaborative Lesson Study Malta (CLeStuM) Tad Watanabe @AkihikoTa

Some thinking about the mathematically disadvantaged…. linkedin.com/posts/geoff-wa…

Fun fact. The Falkirk wheel in Scotland is the world's first and only rotating boat lift: it links the Forth and Clyde Canal to the Union Canal. [📹 scotdrone]

It’s Friday! (photo via The Times}

Worth waiting for! 👇

Call for participation for our 2025 Conference is now open, check out the Conference website for further details: sites.google.com/view/isdde2025… Please RT

Orbital mechanics in 30 seconds [🎞️ aesthetics science]

An 800 m² Roman mosaic discovered in Turkey that was so well made, it preserved the wave of an earthquake without breaking the pattern.

#DigitalArt Mandala using Amaziograph #GeometricArt #MathsArt #MindfulnessArt

Conflating tv programmes. If Michelangelo #BBC2 #Renaissance had entered Ceiling Painter of the Year #PAOTY [sic] he surely wouldn’t have won as his painting isn’t quirky enough.

I’m encouraging ordinary people who wish to ensure X, probably better known as Twitter, reflects the voice of the people to sign up to community notes. Let’s restore the balance so that those of us without extreme wealth return the “free speech” of social media to the people.

I went to school with a Donald Trump character . He thought he was clever - he was a bit of a bully. Most of us got on with things … and eventually he was gone.

@"Math model (formula) of the week - maybe of the century…"linkedin.com/pulse/math-mod… on LinkedIn

I've recently co-authored two research papers based on the work for my doctoral thesis. It develops on previous cognitive science research about interleaving, while focusing specifically on secondary school mathematics. #cogsci #maths 🧵👇 (1/n)