Jay Timotheus
@jaytimotheus.bsky.social
Director of Mathematics for the Co-op Academies Trust. NCETM PD lead. Occasional author of musings on mathematics education. Co-presenter on the MT talk podcast.
Just gonna put this out there: There is no good AI model for planning lessons. They'll make you worse at teaching because you haven't spent as long thinking about your lesson. They won't save you time either because you'll spend so long editing the mess they make.
Does school mathematics sometimes feel like a checklist of disconnected procedures? What if instead we focused on five BIG IDEAS? Explore this brand new, comprehensive and completely free website for teachers: bigmathematicalideas.org #MathEd #MathTeacher #BigMathematicalIdeas
Two great maths opportunities at the new Co-op Academy Strinesdale. Message me if you want any further details, or visit www.waterheadacademy.co.uk/Teaching-vac...
Exciting and rare opportunity to join the team as a secondary subject director for Co-op Academies Trust! Do get in touch if you want to know any more about the role. Closing date 2nd March. recruit.sampeople.co.uk/Jobboard/Vac...
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Sunday night seems the right time to post a gallery of (I hope!) every one of Catriona's geometry puzzles. notes.mathforge.org/notes/publis... Give it a moment to load ... there's a *lot* of them! #GeometryPuzzles #UKMathsChat #mathsky
Puzzle Gallery in Notes
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Wet weekend in the UK! Great excuse to stay in and listen to our MT Talk podcast... The latest episode (OK we've only done two so far) is called 'Everyone can think mathematically.' open.spotify.com/episode/5r1o...
Episode 2. Everyone can think mathematically.
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I'm also part of this 'podcast thing'... Do have a listen! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/m... open.spotify.com/show/3cJF2EX... @atmmathematics.bsky.social
MT talk
Education Podcast · Updated Daily · The MT talk podcast is a space for conversations about mathematics teaching, based on articles published in Mathematics Teaching, the journal of the Association of ...
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Lisa@elsie2110.bsky.social · 12mo agoLike maths? Like learning about maths research? If so... I'm part of a thing! We made a podcast and it'd be great if you gave it a listen. Apple: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/m... Spotify: open.spotify.com/show/7skYS3h...
I mean… this is obviously right up my street! pudding.cool/2025/08/onio...
Dicing an Onion, the Mathematically Optimal Way
There is more than one way to dice an onion…
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The latest edition of #MathematicsTeaching from @atmmathematics.bsky.social is giving me wonderful “Smash Hits” vibes with a centre spread poster 🌟 Particular highlight for me this issue is the article from @janehawkins.bsky.social on the importance of purposeful talk in maths 🗣️
More Y9 trig #MathsToday: we ditched the tables in favour of drawing multipliers directly onto the triangles. This lesson went pretty well! Still just using sin and cos, and today I kept everything in one orientation as well.
Catriona Agg@catrionaagg.bsky.social · last yr.For the next stage of our trig lessons, we looked at the unit circle and introduced sine and cosine as a way to generate a reference triangle for any angle. At this stage they’re still then using similarity and ratio tables to find the missing sides. #MathsToday
From the @mathshorizons.bsky.social report May 2025: "We believe that reasoning and problem solving are not separate strands of maths, to be visited in isolation: they are part of what it means to do maths. The curriculum should reflect this truth at every level."
My final session with @ncetm.bsky.social #Y5to8continuity WG for @nmmathshub.bsky.social. The opportunity to reflect deeply about division of fractions was such a treat - such deep thinking from WGPs. Many thanks @atmmathematics.bsky.social for the inspiring article atm.org.uk/write/MediaU...
Did you know we can visualize rewriting square roots? Here's how!
"Alternatively, with a more connected approach to learning, the more mathematics you learn the easier the subject gets... you have an increasing number of conceptual connections... ideas make more and more sense... and you have less and less to consciously remember." Colin Foster in MT295
Teaching advice from people who’ve never taught? No thanks! 👎 Every NCETM resource is created by people who know the realities of the classroom from first-hand experience – like our Secondary Team! 👀 #Maths #EduSky #UKMathsChat
Amazing opportunity to be our next Trust Director of English! An exciting and varied role and the opportunity to have a national profile with our large Trust. Virtual information sessions are available, details are in the advert. www.tes.com/jobs/vacancy...
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Co-op Academies Trust, United Kingdom
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Great opportunity to join the subject director team at Co-op Academies Trust. Work across a range of schools and make a genuine difference in the lives of thousands of young people. Link: www.coopacademies.co.uk/page/?title=...
👏 Huge congratulations to @johnwestwell.bsky.social, the NCETM’s Director for System Leadership, on receiving an MBE! John is the architect of the Maths Hubs Programme, now in its tenth year and supporting nearly 60% of schools in England.
New Year honour for the NCETM’s John Westwell
John Westwell, the NCETM’s Director for System Leadership, awarded an MBE for services to education
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Today’s poem celebrates Fibonacci Day. It’s called ‘Word Crunching’.
Looking forward to reading this...
Dr Laurie Jacques@smartjacques.bsky.social · 2y agoMarie Joubert and I are delighted to share our report for the JMC building on the Royal Society‘s Mathematical Futures thinking. A vision for meaningful data education across the four nations of the UK. It’s a vision, it’s ambitious! Link and 🧵👇🏽
#MathsEdPoetry day 3 (well almost, I won't have time in the morning!) The I-we-you structure in lessons can easily become an "I", then, "I-again-but-with-minimal-pupil-interaction", then, "Off-you-go-whether-you-understand-it-or-not" structure instead. This is a pupil perspective.
#MathsEdPoetry day 2. Both the @atmmathematics.bsky.social principle "the power to learn rests with the learner" and Daniel Willingham's phrase "learning is the residue of thought" point to the idea that learning is done by the learner. It is not something that can be done to them. From MT287.
Re-posting some of my #MathsEdPoetry on here over the next few days. This is 'Think with me not for me'. First published in MT277 @atmmathematics.bsky.social
“Conceptualisation does not follow automatically from performing procedures several times, even if they are all done correctly.” From the latest @atmmathematics.bsky.social journal.
Also (though it possibly needs some rearranging) made a "Sometimes, Always, Never" on parts of a circle that I've got to say... I'm pretty chuffed with 👍 #mathschat
Okay, here we go. Functions via Chicken Run. First up, the fundamental understanding of functions: "Chickens go in, pies come out." #MathsToday #ALevelMaths youtu.be/ae50P_ajLxA?...
Chicken Run - What kind of pies?
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