Richard Dare FCCT MA CTeach
@richarddare.bsky.social
Lead Practitioner & 2ic Maths. FCCT, Chartered Teacher. LSE+ Work Group Lead, NCETM Mastery Specialist and PD Lead. MA in Expert Teaching. ECT mentor. CCT Research Champion. Steplab Accredited Coaching Lead UK🎓 #MathsEd #UKMathsChat
Isn't it amazing that activists have to do this? Why in heaven's name is bottom trawling allowed in *protected areas*?
Greenpeace International 🌍@greenpeace.org · yesterdayPRESS RELEASE: Activists aboard the Greenpeace ship Arctic Sunrise have placed giant boulders to block bottom trawling across 116 km² of the Southern North Sea Marine Protected Area. The UK government must ban destructive fishing in ALL protected waters. #ProtectTheOceans
Women of GCSE Science. 147 women scientists mapped to every GCSE Biology, Chemistry and Physics topic, with a quiz, search and reading list #EduSky #WomenInSTEM www.drjonesphysics.com/women-in-sci...
🪄✨ Combining skills just got easier! The latest LWB Board update lets you select 3 skills and automatically create a 4th question that connects them all. Build richer mathematical connections! 🔒 Subscriber feature: mathswhiteboard.com/MWB/LWB?upda... #MathsTeachers #iteachmaths #Maths #MathsToday
Haunting the Cepheus Flare science.nasa.gov/image-articl... vdB 141 or Sh2-136 is also known as the Ghost Nebula. It lies at lower right in the starry field of view. Inside the Ghost Nebula are reddish telltale signs of dense cores collapsing in the early stages of star formation.
Hey, just as a reminder, when a particularly obnoxious troll from other places shows up here to do their obnoxious troll thing, you don't have to engage with them, just block their obnoxious troll ass and never see them again here, it's just that easy
Well, a bit different today, but equally as marvellous. Looked for dolphins and orcas, but the pesky blighters were hiding. Still: air and sea and sun and rain and animals and it's all just great...
Gdansk satisfied my inner maths nerd 🤩🤓 Street art: “Fibonacci miscalculated here” with a spiral that doesn’t quite make the golden ratio 🫣 And then a food hall where I HAD to get a gyros from Pitagoras 😍 (and yes, I took off the sticker and wore it 🤓)
Agree and also I think we may all need to read Seven Myths again...
Mark Goodrich@markgoodrich.bsky.social · last wk.A decade after it was published, I finally got around to reading Making Good Progress by @daisychristo.bsky.social and its really fantastically useful and clear in explaining assessment issues. Rather worryingly, it isn’t dated at all. Schools are still overdoing summative assessment.
Daisy nails the current direction of travel in education and the reason for the current direction of travel. A brilliant blog: substack.nomoremarking.com/p/why-are-we...
Why are we making these mistakes again?
“I can explain and analyse what’s going wrong with government education policy”
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Humbled to have the 44th president with us in our movement to demand more for working people in Michigan. Change is in the air. 🤝
A masterpiece by @daisychristo.bsky.social. Only thing I'd add is changes being proposed are only possible because we have rising standards. Once they drop (and they will) behaviour worsens and we get a crisis and return to sense. How much damage first? substack.nomoremarking.com/p/why-are-we...
Why are we making these mistakes again?
“I can explain and analyse what’s going wrong with government education policy”
substack.nomoremarking.com
www.newscientist.com/article/2595...
All tropical coral reefs could collapse within 50 years | New Scientist
Shallow-water coral reefs are at high risk of disappearing by 2075, the IUCN has warned at a UN biodiversity conference. The loss would decimate fisheries and speed up coastal erosion
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Need an "Algebra Tiles Friendly" worksheet on collecting like terms? MathsBot can do that in one-click. mathsbot.com/unitMixed?id...
*** EXCITING NEWS *** My new book - POWERFUL GEOGRAPHY 2 - is due to be published in 2027 by @crownhousepub.bsky.social. This book picks up where Powerful Geography left off, looking at the pedagogy needed to support a curriculum built on the principles of powerful knowledge.
If you gave a nickel to a crow that crow would have made more, by billions, than Anthropic
Reuters@reuters.com · 2w agoAnthropic logged net loss of over $80 billion in first half of 2026, WSJ reports reut.rs/4z2Zi9J
Update: I've added a Foundation and Higher button to the one-mark wonders. mathsbot.com/gcse/oneMark...
One Markers
One-mark GCSE Questions.
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Monday's TGT wishes Philip Pullman a Happy 80th Birthday. The full Dark Materials trilogy was an emotional rollercoaster for me and I'm always excited to meet young people yet to take that journey. Discuss animal daemons and getting on that journey with your tutees tomorrow. bit.ly/TutorGroupThink
**NEW** What those who find learning easy can learn from those who find it hard. bennewmark.wordpress.com/2026/10/15/w...
New. What those who find learning easiest can learn from those who find it hardest. I worked hard on this. bennewmark.wordpress.com/2026/10/15/w...
What those who find learning easiest can learn from those who find it hardest.
This speech was given to Harris Westminster Sixth Form on Friday 9th October 2026. … Thank you for having me. It is an honour to speak to you – the adults in charge of one of the highest-perf…
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Oh, nothing, just me in the New York Times today talking about cool science fictional monster stories from the 19th Century through literally this year: www.nytimes.com/2026/10/15/b...
Best Sci-Fi Books With Monsters and Other Creature Features (Gift Article)
The best-selling author John Scalzi recommends his favorite alien thrillers, mad scientist tales and an intergalactic spin on “Moby Dick.”
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Face, Mayan, Campeche, Mexico, Late Classic Period, 600-800 CE, queen conch shell (Lobatus gigas), 3 x 2 x 1.2 cm, Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton, New Jersey, USA
