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Is your school considering switching to #Bluesky? At a time when schools are reassessing their social media platforms, Nuzhat Uthmani looks at the positives and disadvantages of maintaining an online presence tes.com/magazine/teach…

N5 Maths: difference of 2 squares. The given format in the SQA specification is p²𝑥² − a². 2016 P2 Q4: 3𝑥² − 48 2017 P2 Q9: 4𝑥² − 25 2019 P2 Q13: 4p² − 9 2021 P2 Q3: 3a² − 75 2022 P2 Q12: b² − 9 2023 P2 Q12: 𝑥² − 16 So would 9 − x² or 𝑥² − y² be unfair? Thoughts?

What’s going on here? Student could convert 2¾ into an improper fraction, but then had no idea how many quarters are in 2¾.

Video solutions for another N5 Maths topic page: maths.scot/nat5/linear-in…

New report from the Commission on School Reform highlights worrying FOI data based on the number of pupils in the S4 cohort, rather than the number which sit the exams. While 75% of S4 pupils passed Nat 5 English in 2024, only 40% passed Nat 5 Maths reformscotland.com/publication/br…

How to cheer students up on their first day back of the new year: “None of us had been born in 1936 and we’ll all be dead by 2116.”

Website update: Video solutions to the 14 worked examples for the Advanced Higher Maths 'Methods of Proof' topic by Clelland Maths have now been added to the written solutions on maths.scot/advanced-highe…

Website update: Video solutions to the 11 worked examples for the National 5 Maths 'Simultaneous Equations' topic by Clelland Maths have now been added to the written solutions on maths.scot/nat5/simultane…

Website update: Video solutions to the 18 worked examples for the Higher Maths Differentiation topic by Clelland Maths have now been added to the written solutions on maths.scot/higher/differe…

Website update: Video solutions to the worked examples for the Advanced Higher Maths Number Theory topic by Clelland Maths have now been added to the written solutions on maths.scot/advanced-highe…

Website update: Video solutions to the 16 worked examples for the National 5 Maths 'Change of Subject' topic by Clelland Maths have now been added to the written solutions on maths.scot/nat5/change-of…

What did this pupil do wrong? How to fix their misunderstanding? The question was a worded problem (non-calculator) which they correctly understood required them to calculate 43×6+4. The student’s answer was 702. Hint: They did the multiplication correctly.

Nat 5 Maths Simultaneous equations “Use the elimination method as efficiently as possible to solve this system of equations.” 4𝑥 − 2𝑦 = 20 𝑥 + 5𝑦 = −17 What do we think: fair question or not? Should students be expected to know that it is better to eliminate 𝑥 here?

#WorldPoetryDay2025 Mathematical Limerick by Leigh Mercer A dozen, a gross and a score Plus three times the square root of four Divided by seven Plus five times eleven Is nine squared and not a bit more.

Gauth is both incredible technology and deeply depressing. This will probably be a child cheating on their homework: gauthmath.com/solution/18164…

My P6 teacher, c.1979, told me that using a comma as a thousands separator was "old fashioned". She was right. The issue was settled at the 1948 General Conference on Weights and Measures: bipm.org/en/committees/… Why then, are some pupils still being taught to use commas?