Head of Maths in Cardiff, Wales. Interested in maths, teaching maths, geometry and chess. Cymro. Blog at https://xitter.cf/t.co/nOCRV96QOu
Cardiff, Wales
Joined June 2018
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NEW BLOG: We Taught It. They Forgot It. We Moved On.
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*New Post*
My thoughts on the recent Estyn Maths Thematic Report in Wales #CurriculumForWales
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Jack Nicol retweeted
Too many pupils in Wales aren’t reaching their potential in maths due to inconsistent teaching.
Our latest report offers insights, effective practice examples & practical resources to help schools improve.
Read our report in full: bit.ly/3ZL6I1p
Very much enjoyed a visit from @tombennett71 today who spoke with wit, wisdom, ambition and kindness about getting behaviour for learning right in schools
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2¹³⁶²⁷⁹⁸⁴¹−1, discovered today, is the largest known prime. It's a Mersenne prime (2ᵖ-1), which are easier to find.
It took nearly 6 years for the GIMPS software to find it after the previous largest known prime. It was also the first Mersenne prime found using GPUs.
Congratulations to Emma K from @officialCHS who has just won her first game representing Wales at the 2024 International Chess Olympiad in Hungary
Interesting reading on one of my favourite bits of Maths. The method can be nicely explored using this interactive animation: geogebra.org/m/vwhcaeCa
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Ystyried yr enghraifft gyntaf erioed ble defnyddiwyd y dull Newton-Raphson... #lefelA
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Considering the first ever example where the Newton-Raphson method was used... #Alevel
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Investigating the Collatz Conjecture with spreadsheets
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#maths #curriculumforwales #mtbos
Jack Nicol retweeted
right decision. well worth exploring - and returning to in due course - but timing is everything. pressure on system far too great to be wasting scant resource on things that can wait. how many civil service hrs lost to this? a distraction nobody needed in the eye of a storm
Plans to cut the school summer holiday have been shelved until after the next Welsh Parliament election bbc.in/4aSFo41
What a load of nonsense
Do we need to learn trigonometry? Wouldn't it be more useful to learn how tax or budgeting works? youtube.com/shorts/XyKprhhmG…
Jack Nicol retweeted
@AddysgEducation @lynne_neagle is correct in that CfW does have a ‘focus on equipping young people with knowledge’
Which is good because critical thought, problem solving and even creativity heavily rely upon contextual knowledge.
However, what concerns some people is…
Cutting 6 week school summer hols "not a fait accompli", Wales' new Education Minister Lynne Neagle has told me. I asked her about other things too in her first big interview since taking up the post
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New Post: Maths PISA Results in Wales
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Where Are We Now?
Short blog about current landscape in Wales, CfW and the disadvantage gap.
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NEW: Sliding education results and high inequalities should prompt a big rethink in Welsh education policy.
Read @lukesibieta’s (@theIFS, @EduPolicyInst) new report on the major education challenges facing Wales, funded by @NuffieldFound: ifs.org.uk/publications/majo…
ALT Chart shows PISA scores across UK nations and OECD average over time. Title states: "Wales saw lower scores in reading, maths and science than the other UK nations and the OECD average."
