A maths teacher who is married to a beautiful and amazing lady and has 2 (mostly) amazing kids. My dog is Mable Views my own. rt does not mean endorsement .

Tavistock, England
Joined July 2016
Can anyone tell me when the Leyton match will be confirmed as definitely going ahead on the third? I know there was talk about it being postponed due to international duties. TIA. #pafc
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MrS_devon 👨‍🦰 retweeted
Replying to @SwailesRuth
PISA results show—controlling for social class and compositional effects—achievement in UK state and private schools was the same, suggesting that the quality of teaching in private schools is such that they need classes of 23 to achieve what state schools do with classes of 30
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I am teaching a year 10 maths class next year whose predicted grades are 1 ( possibly 2). I have read about some ideas for how to teach the lesson, but I am wondering what thoughts people have regarding using calculators on the lesson. /continued
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I feel inclined to let the students use them more frequently than I would normally to try and prevent cognitive overload and to build confidence. Can anyone help? @johncosgrove405 @PaulGarvey4 @dare_richard
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I had an afternoon with just the dog and myself, so we went to watch Tavistock in the extra preliminary round of the FA Cup, which ended 0-0. Here we are at half time.
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MrS_devon 👨‍🦰 retweeted
Reposting this ahead of the annual results day sh*t-posting
Next time a trendy celebrity rubbishes maths as a subject, remind them that it is the key to life-long social mobility for the vast majority of students. A one grade improvement in GCSE Maths leads to ~£15,000 higher lifetime earnings. assets.publishing.service.go…
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I'm just thinking about the last term and how I introduced atomisation. At the time it was great as I thought Ss must be learning as we were covering misconceptions as they happened. 1/n
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However, when it came to tests I am not sure they did seem to remember any better. I am wondering if there was not the struggle that they needed to 'make it stick '. Has anyone got any thoughts/ tips. @mrbartonmaths @dare_richard
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Tomorrow we will have been married 26 years. Today we went to The Waterfront on Plymouth's Hoe. What a great day.
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I cannot imagine that we would have stayed in the championship if we had made it up, there is too much improvement needed. A few improvements to the squad and take this moment into next season and we will go up!! #pafc
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A great result, and happy scenes post match #pafc
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Outside the stadium yesterday. #pafc
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MrS_devon 👨‍🦰 retweeted
Reading education blogs changed my practice, so I always want to try take the opportunity to share the love. Here are a few free blogs I've read recently that I thought were super, please share if you can! I work at a school that doesn't have merit points or rewards or anything like that, so this piece by @msrebeccabirch on intrinsic motivation really appealed to me: rebeccabirch.substack.com/p/… We are in the midst of an SEND crisis, and part of the problem is outlined by @head_teach: that some schools have astonishingly higher numbers of students with SEND than others: matthewevanseducation.substa… @joel120193 is smashing out hit after hit on his blog, and this piece on the sheer amount of things teachers have to do resonated: joel120193.substack.com/p/th… @mpershan wrote a typically scholarly, wide-ranging and sophisticated piece on implicit vs explicit learning, the memorisation of maths facts and much more. pershmail.substack.com/p/und… Next up are two posts on AI: @alex_crossman has written an excellent piece on the risks of AI to education. Our job is to get students' thinking hard, and AI's job is to get people thinking less hard. These aren't compatible, and we need to pull the brakes hard. powerfulknowledge.substack.c… Whilst not strictly about education, Gary Marcus's entry here about the security risks of OpenClaw and other weird things is vital if we are to take internet and AI security seriously. garymarcus.substack.com/p/op… Of course, I've been blogging too, and you can check out my entries here: carouselteachlearnlead.subst… As stated at the outset, please share if you can!
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MrS_devon 👨‍🦰 retweeted
This is Charles. He says young people should care more about nature. He’s spent his whole life killing animals for fun. Don’t be like Charles.
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With tonight's goalie having a run in the team, we are likely to be going down, not up. We need a decent one to come in this week. #pafc
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Not sure this is a parody!!
Hi all, It has come to our attention that some colleagues are not marking their Disadvantaged Students’ work first. This really is not good enough. Ofsted want to see this. Starting today, you must video yourself marking work and upload the clips to TEAMs. Thanks x
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As someone who’s a US veteran but half British, I’ve got some shit to say. During my 10 years in the Navy and Army I’ve spent a lot of time working close with NATO operatives from all over Europe. The British soldiers used to always make fun of me because I had a US flag on my shoulder, always being told (you’re In the wrong uniform). Until 2009 when I was in Afghanistan operating medevac flights from Bagram to Ramstein and we had about 60 UK soldiers being flown back, missing limbs, almost fatal wounds and even a few deaths. That was when I realized that It didn’t matter of which flag was on our uniforms, we were all brothers and sisters fighting in the common enemy. 457 British soldiers lives were lost fighting a war we asked them to jump into and you know what, they did without fuckin hesitation!! That’s what you call a true ally. A true hero. And real brother in arms. So to that fat orange piece of shit who said that they were standing “a little back off the front lines” I want to remind all of his boot licking cult members that I have a friend who’s a former royal marine, that lost his left arm and right leg for being “a little back off the front lines” and even though he’s living his life with his family, he made the ultimate sacrifice. When I spoke to him today he wasn’t just angry, he felt betrayed. I reassured him that you don’t know how grateful we are. So to all who are laughing at this………. Go FUCK YOURSELVES!!! I couldn’t be more proud to serve my country during the hell that we went through in both Iraq and Afghanistan, but I couldn’t be more prouder than serving along side my NATO forces. Because if they weren’t there, I would probably be dead today!!! FUCK TRUMP ALL THE WAY TO HELL AND HIS BOOTLICKING ASSHOLE SIDEKICKS MAY THEY ROT IN PISS!!!!!
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On my bucket list is watching England at the FIFA World Cup. I cannot go this year due to money and working, but there would be no way that I would go and watch them in America whilst the orange buffoon is president. #BoycottWorldCup2026
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I am thinking of taking my name off the Cleverly out petition. An entertaining match, and a deserved victory. #pafc
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Check out this book: "The Lost Bookshop: The most charming and…" by Evie Woods read.amazon.co.uk/kp/kshare?…
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