Maths Teacher & Director at MathsPadhttps://bsky.app/profile/mathspadnicola.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/mathspadnicola.bsky.social/post/3mfu655uwek2i#mathstoday27 Feb 2026 16:49 +0000at://did:plc:tw3jko4d4chtiyxvdpz2kmo3/app.bsky.feed.post/3mfu655uwek2ihttps://bsky.app/profile/mathspadnicola.bsky.social/post/3mfrg23w5fc2uThis week I was explaining to students about the invisible 2 when we write square root, and they asked me if we could have a '1st' square root. I loved this question - and that i'd never considered it before #mathstoday26 Feb 2026 14:33 +0000at://did:plc:tw3jko4d4chtiyxvdpz2kmo3/app.bsky.feed.post/3mfrg23w5fc2uhttps://bsky.app/profile/mathspadnicola.bsky.social/post/3llo4do4euk2oHi Bluesky, We are getting a lot of emails at the moment from teachers who are looking for schools that are using MathsPad as their curriculum/SOW. If you are one of these schools and would like to connect with others, please can you reply to this post so I can point people your way. Thank you!31 Mar 2025 10:06 +0000at://did:plc:tw3jko4d4chtiyxvdpz2kmo3/app.bsky.feed.post/3llo4do4euk2ohttps://bsky.app/profile/mathspadnicola.bsky.social/post/3ljnwr6sikc2sMy #MathsConf37 workshop choices: 1 - Rebecca Sanders 2 - @justmaths.bsky.social 3 - Amy How 4 - @teachsolutions.bsky.social 5 - @amercermaths.bsky.social Join me with @lasalleed.bsky.social, get your ticket here: completemaths.com/community/mathsconf37 https://completemaths.com/community/mathsconf3705 Mar 2025 21:36 +0000at://did:plc:tw3jko4d4chtiyxvdpz2kmo3/app.bsky.feed.post/3ljnwr6sikc2shttps://bsky.app/profile/mathspadnicola.bsky.social/post/3la5ewua7gt2fEnjoyed this with year 11 today:04 Nov 2024 18:48 +0000at://did:plc:tw3jko4d4chtiyxvdpz2kmo3/app.bsky.feed.post/3la5ewua7gt2fhttps://bsky.app/profile/mathspadnicola.bsky.social/post/3l3f7fawgta2nI decided to start the probability scale this year with questions like 'if the event is unlikely, what could its probability be as a fraction?'. I think it revealed a lot about their knowledge of FDP and helped solidify the scale as going from 0 to 1. I followed it with:05 Sep 2024 06:24 +0000at://did:plc:tw3jko4d4chtiyxvdpz2kmo3/app.bsky.feed.post/3l3f7fawgta2nhttps://bsky.app/profile/mathspadnicola.bsky.social/post/3l2zfznk7ti2fIt always puzzled me at school what happens when you press the sin cos and tan buttons on a calculator. I think this video about the beautiful sine wave is incredible - if you are interested in the history of trigonometry this is really worth a watch: https://www.gresham.ac.uk/watch-now/sine-wave31 Aug 2024 13:50 +0000at://did:plc:tw3jko4d4chtiyxvdpz2kmo3/app.bsky.feed.post/3l2zfznk7ti2f