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what answer do you get and how do you get it?
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Cliff Pickover
@pickover25 Feb 2022
Mathematics. Any person causing this tweet to be retweeted a prime number of times is worthy of adoration — and will also cause us to experience a moment of intense pleasure at the instant their retweet takes place.
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During the coming days I am going to create tasks called "Mixed Six" for each of key skills and cross over topics from Edexcel advance information. This draw upon the work of Pointon and Sangwin's Taxonomy highlighted by @ChrisMcGrane84's excellent Task Design course 1/2
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Which one doesn’t belong? Pair/pear/pare/parallel/pairing edition. 😎 #WODB
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@G_S_Bhogal11 Feb 2022
My friends, a new MEGATHREAD has arrived! In 40 tweets I’ll explain 40 useful concepts you should know. Reading time: ~7 minutes. Value: potentially a lifetime! Thread:
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If now no need for confirmatory PCR after asymptomatic + LFD, why is PCR necessary after *symptomatic* + LFD? When chance of false positive is even lower? Genuinely unsure what the logic is.
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The world’s largest Ferris Wheel opened today. With a diameter of 820 feet, the Ain Dubai can carry 1750 passengers at a time. Each rotation takes 38 minutes to complete. How quickly are the passengers moving in feet per minute?
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Mark Dawes@mdawesmdawes29 Oct 2021
Here's a new blog on the @CamMathsHub site that might be useful for introducing binomial probability. Some maths behind tennis and how likely the better player is to win. cambridgemathshub.org/may-th…
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Just realised that as today is James birthday 56=78 also 12=3x4 . Fo you know of any others ?
Overwhelmed by the number of CPD opportunities and struggling to know which one is right for you or your department? For a comprehensive but succinct guide to all support offered to secondary maths teachers by the NCETM and Maths Hubs see bit.ly/3m4eeA6 @NCETM @MathsHubs
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Want your @Desmos graphs to move when you click them? Or at a specified time?? Take a look at these AMAZING actions (you need to enable them in the calculator) ... so many new things to learn!! WOW!!! 👀👀🤩🤩🤩 help.desmos.com/hc/en-us/art…

Actions

Actions provide a way to react to events, like clicks or clock ticks, in the calculator. Each action is made up of one or more update rules, which specify new values for a variable based on specifi...

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This is an interesting problem. Translation; "Here is a plan of a garden, showing the locations of flowerbeds, but there have been some mistakes in the drawing. The flowerbeds are separated by a path that is 1m wide. What is the total area of the flowerbeds?"
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@mathmathsan20 Aug 2021
【算数ネタ2０4】楽する人ほど間違える 図のように４つの花だんがあります。それぞれの間には１ｍの幅があります。４つの花壇を合わせた面積は何m2ですか。
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A grocer wants to measure all weights from 1 kg to 40 kg using balance scales. What is the smallest number of weights they need to do this and what are their values? You could solve this by trial and error. Or you could use a #shortcut. amazon.co.uk/Thinking-Better…

Thinking Better: The Art of the Shortcut

Thinking Better: The Art of the Shortcut

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Graham Cumming@MathsNot12 Aug 2021
Thread: time for another day of results using old-fashioned Excel bar charts: here's how it looks for GCSE as a whole.
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ATM MA Respond to the 2021 Mathematics Ofsted Research Review. A practical guide for the classroom practitioner. atm.org.uk/write/MediaUpload…
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Have you had a look at the #NCETMCheckpoints resources released today? Well worth a look @NCETM #Y58Continuity ncetm.org.uk/classroom-resou…
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#coremaths I love this photo _ can it help in conversation about height of rooms buildings etc. What do you think? And wonder?
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#coremathspeople what do you think/wonder
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Our 2021/22 Work Groups are open for applications! We have fantastic FREE CPD opportunities for schools in the Venn Essex Maths Hub area. Head over to vennessexmathshub.co.uk to see what's on offer, or contact us: [email protected]
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