Robert J Smith

@rjs2212.bsky.social

Maths Teacher, Leicester

📢 Here are the details for the MathsConf42 Pre-Conference Social! 🕖 From 7pm onwards 📍 The Restaurant connected to the Premier Inn Barnsley Central Hotel S70 2RD A great chance to meet fellow Maths enthusiasts and kick off the weekend together. We look forward to seeing you there! 🎉

Meanwhile my wife gently teases us for discussing mathematics at the dinner table as usual, and granddaughter replies, in a similar gently mocking tone "That's all right, gandma, you can have a less interesting conversation." Good for you, girl! 3/3

Delighted to see Hannah Fry's debut on Celebrity Traitors last night. Doing it for all the mathematicians and self-confessed nerds out there. She's one of our own.

Just had a delightful time talking about some Checkpoints (including this one), and a few tangential thoughts, with an enthusiastic group of Maths teachers here at #MathsConf41. Having discussed Checkpoints twice now, I should probably find something different to talk about for next time.

A slide from NCETM Checkpoints. Year 7 arithmetic procedures with fractions. Checkpoint 16 greater fractions. Four pairs of fractions to compare.