The privatisation of water has been a total and utter disaster.

Stop bailing out greedy private companies and bring our water into public ownership instead.

What age/year group might this be appropriate for (if any!)?
How would you expect them to solve it?

(Disclaimer: I made the image in ppt so the edges might not quite align, but you get the idea!)

Follow up Q:
How might you add to this pattern to make a square?

JD 🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧 Rwanda won’t work, and even if it did it’s only going to deal with a few hundred. Why don’t the tories take France up on their offer of processing people over there? Could it be because they don’t want to stop the boats? Better to create division.

It blows my mind that David Cameron talks of the risk of casualties when Israel has killed over 30,000 & our Government continue to support them. Some lives are more important than others, clearly.

Explaining the inability of schools to support SEN children like they used to is also a pretty difficult/upsetting conversation for all parties concerned. It’s not our politicians who have to have the conversations that we need to have because of their decisions.

Millions of us have been calling for a ceasefire to stop the loss of life and prevent a wider conflict.

Political leaders have chosen to ignore us — and their failure to facilitate de-escalation has endangered everyone.

The world is in a truly perilous state. It’s time to

When Y11 daughter says I can’t remember trig ratios and you work through constructing and reading from these triangles and she goes 🤯😍 “why don’t they teach me this at school?”. So how do they teach them? Geoff Wake 🇪🇺🇺🇦🇪🇺 Mike Ollerton Pip - Mathematics Graham Cumming Teachers of Maths 🤷🏽‍♀️

Mike Ollerton Dr Helen J not moving on Williams 🇪🇺🐦 Wes Streeting MP Me too Mike - a real missed opportunity for the country

When are you going to join the bloody Tories, Wes Streeting MP ?
It’s where you belong
#betrayal

Dr Helen J not moving on Williams 🇪🇺🐦 The Cuisenaire®Co UK Alf Coles Mike Ollerton Peter Lacey 🐦 Adil Jaffer I'm an English teacher by training so it's very easy to avoid 'wrong' in that. But I also currently teach maths in secondary and I think the thing I do most often when helping students tackle questions is start with 'what do you know, and how can you use it?'

One for the calendar IOE, UCL's Faculty of Education & Society Dr Rachel Marks 🤓 Cosette Crisan Eirini Geraniou nbretscher Dr Helen J not moving on Williams 🇪🇺🐦 Helen Drury Peter Lacey 🐦 Peter Gates Geoff Wake 🇪🇺🇺🇦🇪🇺 Mike Ollerton Ruth Swailes Teachers of Maths

Jerome.Foley Fantastic Maths Why would I need a procedure to solve a problem?
Blimey- think of all the procedures I’d have to memorise to solve all problems this way 😳😳😳😫

Dr Helen J not moving on Williams 🇪🇺🐦 Mary Pardoe Yorkshire Steve I recall an anecdote from David Fielker. Q: how do you teach your pupils to solve problems A: I give them problems to solve

Mike Ollerton Dr Laurie Jacques (she/her) Professor Smudge Teachers of Maths Tom Francome Colin Foster Peter Gates Peter Lacey 🐦 Cosette Crisan nbretscher Having multiple exam boards acts as a brake on innovation. Each is inherently conservative and together they coalesce to shut down progression in curriculum and assessment…

Dr Laurie Jacques (she/her) Professor Smudge Teachers of Maths Geoff Wake 🇪🇺🇺🇦🇪🇺 Tom Francome Colin Foster Peter Gates Peter Lacey 🐦 Cosette Crisan nbretscher The meaninglessness of mathematics is due to the uselessness of examinations. The most important aspects of mathematics is through problem solving and the use of investigations. These skills cannot be carried out in an exam.

Geoff Wake 🇪🇺🇺🇦🇪🇺 Dr Laurie Jacques (she/her) Professor Smudge Teachers of Maths Tom Francome Colin Foster Peter Gates Peter Lacey 🐦 Cosette Crisan nbretscher “We have assessment that is not fit for purpose.” Absolutely; using tests to measure students’ mathematical capabilities fail students. Full stop.

Etak Airotciv Jacob Merrill Dr Helen J not moving on Williams 🇪🇺🐦 Dr Laurie Jacques (she/her) Dr Rachel Marks 🤓 mathscpdchat Ruth Trundley 🇺🇦 🌻🌻 Geoff Wake 🇪🇺🇺🇦🇪🇺 Teachers of Maths The Joint Mathematical Council of the UK (JMC) The Mathematical Association Mike Ollerton In the 1980s I used to run 'maths for parents' sessions to help them as co-educators. I wld often start with giving out a piece of blank paper & ask them to write numbers 1-10 in the margin in prep for a test so I could build on what they knew.
We then started by discussing fear.