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Even for me, this starter question is geeky!

Happy Higher Apps pre-release day for those who celebrate.

My response to comments saying "Just teach the algorithm!"

Great video from Howie. It's worth saying: if a school's approach to teaching maths is "could the students just memorise 200 algorithms?" you shouldn't be surprised to find that a majority can't. Understanding is how you actually commit all that to memory.

SMC Stirling Maths Conference Sat 17 May. Tickets: £80 standard; £20 for Highland and the Scottish Islands; £10 students. Only 150 tickets, so sign up quickly. Workshops: bit.ly/SMC2025worksho… Tickets and sign up: bit.ly/SMC2025tickets

Love the SMC conference. A chance geek out with fellow maths teachers and re-energise those batteries.

It’s finally here. The first episode of Talking Scottish Education is available on Apple Podcasts now. In it Stuart Farmer - stuartphysics.bsky.social and I speak with Barry Black & Derek Young about the Education Bill (Scotland), navigating Scottish education policy and the role of teachers in shaping

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"I've come up with a way of demystifying e (2.718) for high schoolers." -- Po-Shen Loh He draws an exponential with any base (say, f(x) = 2^x), and reasons about how to "stretch" to have slope 1 at the y-intercept. The correct stretching factor defines e. 1/

One to give Higher Apps students: is this a valid model?

Realised that "anticipate" starts with the sound "ante," as in "before," like in ante meridiem or the ante bet in poker. Anticipation: participation before the thing's even happened.

Interpretations of powers of 10. 10⁻⁴³: Planck time in seconds 10⁻³⁵: Planck length in meters 10⁻³⁰: Mass of an electron in kilograms 10⁻²⁷: Mass of a proton in kilograms 10⁻¹⁵: The radius of the hydrogen nucleus (a proton) in meters 10⁻¹¹: The likelihood of

NEW BLOG: Educational Amnesia: Why England Is Sleepwalking into a Scottish Mistake emaths.co.uk/blog/general-e…

National 5 Apps paper 1- feeling validated for my years of pushing the box drawing method for ratio. "One year they'll tell you the difference between parts, know how to label it." That year hath come!

Loved the SMC yesterday. I've shared my presentation here: applyingmaths.com/2025/05/18/smc… #SMC2025

Everyone working in schools should get a Teacher Art Pass - at only £25 it's 60% off the usual price, and gets you free entry to museums and galleries and half-price admission to special exhibitions. artfund.org/teacher-art-pa…

NEW BLOG: Stop Designing ‘Relevant’ Curricula for the Poor emaths.co.uk/blog/general-e…

A free Mathematics video site with original questions and 100’s to GeoGebra apps to support learning for A-level maths. Pls share and repost. sites.google.com/view/mathemati…