The moral panic about prisoner release is absurd. If one assumes that prisoners were given the length of sentence that they and society deserve, then it doesn't make sense to reduce the sentence for some but not others.
ProfSmudge
@profsmudge.bsky.social
School maths should be more than tables and algorithms. I try to write materials that show that. Dietmar Küchemann
Here's an interesting task! [based on Opfer & DeVries, 2008]
I pride myself on my bread-slicing skills, except I so often create an overhang.
At today's lunch a friend and I were sharing a bill of £120 + 10%. The waiter suggested two payments of £60 + 5%.
In #MathsToday (Y5) tried to use the standard algorithm to subtract 11:05 hours from 15:00 hours. [We'd already solved it informally.] What happens when we have to 'borrow' 1 from the hours column? Does this give us 10 lots of 10-minutes or 6?
Had another look last night at this stimulating book from 1997. "Students build mathematical understandings by reflecting and communicating" about challenging problems. Isn't it time we consigned Teaching for Mastery to history, alongside Gibb, Gove and Cummings, the ideologues who promoted it.
At last, the World Cup proper has begun. What a travesty these last two weeks have been.
@brewdogofficial.bsky.social Cold beer? As opposed to Warm piss? Is this the worst beer in the world? Brewed for 12 year olds, perhaps? Sugar water with a bit of Ovaltine. Yuk.
Ode to Andy Just a bluff little bloke, humble <ahem> “The country needs change, I’ll be your PM” Once king of the north, he a wet and a weed A scheming chiz, now of Makersfield.
Sainsbury's v Asda tissues - similar value? £1 v 80p 226 v 180 sheets 9.3 v 6.9 m²
It's Maker or Breaker on the Field tonight. Will Thomas Tuchel's multicultural England team help Labour save us from Reform on Thursday?
The in-play FIFA logo looks as though it's made of gold bars. A fitting image for the tacky commercialism leaching off the World Cup.
@nationwideuk.bsky.social This Nationwide cumulative share payment graph: misleading in so many ways.
In #MathsToday Three Year 5 pupils finding 'in-between' numbers, starting with 486 and 5361 and ending with 486.53. I was impressed!
I'll be discussing this task on Friday at King's College London (BSRLM Day Conference). How would you solve it?
Channel 4's Tip Toe, a graphic demonstration of the cross that Russel ✝︎ Davis has had to bear.
Hegseth spouting the same racist ideology whose defeat he is celebrating. Dim, ignorant, nazty
In #MathsToday three Y5 pupils placed/read marks on a number line. They made fine estimates for 15 (line 1) and correctly identified 12 (line 2). The made good estimates for the mark on lines 3 (17) and 4 (7) but could not make use of the value 12 from line 2, even for line 4, which surprised me.
