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Email comes from a Year 13 A level maths student who is on holiday abroad somewhere. Not quite sure how to answer …

@hcsstweets.bsky.social Do you know: have City done enough business to avoid the points deduction?

So, Edexcel paper 3 looks reasonable. A bit weird that they specified vertical resolving in the inclined plane question (an ‘or otherwise’ would have been nice) but overall no complaints. Some students say the stats was harder and some say the mechanics, and that’s a good sign.

My new favourite LDS question: What is the modal value of daily rainfall in Jacksonville in 1987? #ALevelMaths

Edexcel Paper 2 looks a good paper and exactly in line with our expectations in terms of content (unlike last year). #ALevelMaths

Reaction online says that Edexcel Paper 2 was much easier than paper 1. But one mention that there were three logarithmic modelling questions raises my suspicions. I wonder if they did another late paper substitution? Easy to do as the maths exam papers only reach schools the day before the exam.

You don’t protest by setting buses on fire. You’re a rioter. You don’t protest by setting refugees’ houses on fire and attacking black people in the street. You’re a racist. You aren’t on the right side of history by staying silent whilst these facists rise. Speak up. You too, Keir.

I have curated a set of questions based on likely topics for Edexcel Paper 2 #ALevelMaths with answers at the end. Feel free to use. drive.google.com/file/d/1-CMp...

Some of my students pointing out that two questions on the Edexcel Paper 1 yesterday are identical to Madasmaths questions. I guess Edexcel examiners were bound to run out of ideas eventually. #Alevelmaths

Having seen the Edexcel Paper 1 now, I don’t think it is as hard as people are saying. Also not sure about some people’s topic lists for paper 2. Bicen says integration by substitution definite for paper 2 but see Q10c on paper 1. Will try to produce something in coming days. #ALevelMaths

Wembley! Up the Hull!

I like to give my students in #ALevelMaths numerical answers and not full mark schemes. Yesterday I compiled a long set of revision questions for core pure and uploaded them to ChatGPT. It gave me numerical answers in about one minute, saving me a lot of time. (I wonder if they are all correct?)

Edexcel Core Pure 2 paper likely topics #ALevelMaths

Edexcel Core Pure 1 sounds like it was okay, but I don’t get to see the paper until tomorrow.

Nice quadratic inequality question, at least I like it. #ALevelMaths

My Y12s were doing their test corrections in class today. They were all writing in green ink. I told them I was impressed with their training but I don’t actually care what colour pens they use. Shocked, they asked what Ofsted would say. I was an Ofsted inspector 12 years … #ALevelMaths #mathstoday

Would you say that the area between curve and y-axis being calculated as integral of xdy is on the A level spec? #ALevelMaths

Warm-up questions for (Edexcel) Core Pure Maths. I intend to print on A3 and give them to students on the morning of 14th May. #ALevelMaths drive.google.com/file/d/1X9fZ...

New research from the Institute shows that setting > mixed-ability in maths. www.theguardian.com/education/20...

Teaching in classes grouped by ability does not hamper progress of less able pupils, study finds

Research on maths teaching in English secondary schools upends decades of debate over mixed-ability education

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Just checking, if anyone who does Edexcel Further #ALevelMaths could confirm: am I right in thinking that this question is not on the Core Pure syllabus? It came from madasmaths.

@hcsstweets.bsky.social With Wrexham losing, I reckon City qualify for the play-offs if they win 3 of their last 4 games. And probably, as several top teams play each other, they can fall a little short of that.

@tommctague.bsky.social Great editor’s note (as always the article I look forward to most) but for one thing. Durham is lovely but not God’s own country, which is very much Yorkshire.

I’m in love with these photos by Misan Harriman at a free exhibition at Hope 93 (on Eastcastle Street just behind Oxford Street).

@jvl.org.uk No Jewish bloc at the antiwar march today 😢

In #MathsToday I am marking #ALevelMaths mock Stats papers and getting depressed. Students seem incapable of giving contextual replies in plain English.

*unless in Minnesota

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 5mo ago

Hegseth: "If you kill Americans, if you threaten Americans anywhere on earth, we will hunt you down without apology and without hesitate and we will kill you"

Hang on …. Cambridge maths applicants will have to take both TMUA and STEP?! Three entrance exams?! #ALevelMaths

If you have MUBI, watch the Spanish series ‘The New Years’. It’s the best thing I have watched on TV for a long time. Worth signing up to MUBI to binge it.

For anyone interested in history/WW2 or stories of real people going through extraordinary times, sometimes shocking and often moving, this is a fantastic book. Just finished it but going to call it one of my favourite reads in 2025.