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Twitter account for the Mathematics Department at Bloomfield Collegiate School, Belfast.

Joined March 2019
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Friday's KS3 wellbeing day was awesome! Great variety of events for all to get involved in. #community
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Bloomfield is safe and ready for the return of pupils - we are all really looking forward to welcoming our Year 12, 13 and 14 senior students back to school on Monday morning.
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Friday fact... Multiplying 21978 by 4 reverses the order of the numbers to 87912.
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To celebrate the release of our brand new Higher 5-a-day Workbooks today, we are giving away lots of Corbettmaths pens and mugs 📚✍️☕️🎉 For your chance to be 1 of 50 lucky winners, just Retweet by Sunday 14th Feb corbettmaths.com/books/
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Friday fact... Every odd number has an “e” in it.
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Friday fact... The original Roman calendar only had 10 months. January and February were not included, but were added later.
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Friday fact... The first New Year’s celebration dates back 4,000 years. Julius Caesar, the emperor of Rome, was the first to declare 1st Janaury a national holiday. Happy New Year! 🎆
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Fact Friday... In the original Roman calendar, November was the ninth month of the year. It got its name from the Latin word "novem" which means nine. However, it became the eleventh month when the Romans added in January and February to the start of the year.
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Friday fact... Roman numerals only have seven different letters which form the entire number system: I, V, X, L, C, D, and M.
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Did you know that Sergey Brin, co-founder of Google studied maths at university? Lots of tech entrepreneurs used maths to make their billions and Sergey Brin is no exception!
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Read our new blog to discover how Florence Nightingale used her skills in nursing to create new mathematical concepts! hubs.ly/H0vLLf90
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📢 CLOSING TOMORROW! Our Public Consultation closes at 5pm tomorrow (Mon 7 September) 🖱️ bit.ly/3gryabh If you would like to give feedback on the proposed changes to CCEA #GCSE, #AS and #Alevels due to be assessed in 2021, please find more info via the link above.
Happy Pi Approximation Day (22/7≈3.14.) 🎉 At Learning by Questions, we have plenty of questions to support students with calculating the area of a circle, including the Question Set below. Give it a try! ➡️ lbq.org/search/mathematics?q… #LbQ #PiApproximationDay
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Thank you for all the lovely messages over the past few months... it has been amazing to hear that the resources have been helpful 😊😀 To say thanks, I am giving away 4 sets of limited edition A4 Corbettmaths Revision Cards 🎉 To enter RT by 8pm Wed 15th corbettmaths.com/revision-ca…
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The big question some students will ask - 'when will I ever need Maths in real life?' Check out our latest blog to find out the answers! hubs.ly/H0qQnzX0
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Year 10 - As we move into June we have launched this year’s Youth and Philantrophy Initiative (YPI) project. Please check your school email account for details on how to take part. Good luck!
Some of the Masks made by BCS Technology Department here.
We are delighted to see the impact our PPE initiative is having in our communities with front-line healthcare staff working in the fight against COVID-19. We thank again all our heroic healthcare staff in these difficult days, especially our fantastic alumni and students #LoveQUB
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It has been wonderful to hear that Corbettmaths has been useful to so many teachers and parents with home education. Thank you everyone so much for sharing the website to others 👍😀🙏 Amazing to see the website recommended by the DfE today 😲❤️gov.uk/government/publicatio…
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Studying for Higher GCSE Maths? Try today's Foundation Plus, Higher & challenging Higher Plus #maths5aday answers: corbettmaths.com/2016/10/26/…
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Thank you so much everyone for helping Corbettmaths reach 100 MILLION website views 🎉😊 To celebrate we are running our biggest competition ever! For your chance to win 100 sets of revision cards or pens/mugs, just RT and complete our short survey corbettmaths.com/2019/11/15/…
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