Bernie Westacott
berniewestacott.bsky.social
Full time 1973-2012 Head of Maths. Part time intervention teacher rtd. Introduced Singapore Maths in school 2006. Independent consultant 2012 - current. Oxford University Press maths consultant 2015-2020. Teach Monster game maths consultant 2020 - current.
👤 Joined on 09 August 2024
1083
Followers
1023
Following
280
Total Posts
📜 Kullanıcı Geçmişi
- 09 Ağu 2024, 17:01
🎉 Bluesky'e katıldı - İlk kullanıcı adı:
@berniewestacott.bsky.social
🚫 Blokladığı Kullanıcılar
❤️ Beğendiği Gönderiler
#Mathstoday First time using Ai today to help get questions (I'm reasonably anti Ai) Gave the Ai 7 questions of what I was looking for and it did manage to create some ok stuff. Couldn't find questions on the topic from actual humans (which I would have preferred)
Show Post
In #MathsToday I cannot believe the number of teaching hours I have already lost (all years), for various extra curricular reasons, and we are only mid-October.
Show Post
Shocked my further maths class in #MathsToday by writing: 157 -138 ----- 2 -1 They were decidedly not impressed. #ALevelMaths #UKMathsChat
Show Post
A sequence of tasks leading up to finding the HCF of two numbers from their prime factorisations. Lots of work on finding factors given a prime factorisation before looking for common factors of two numbers. I chose not to use Venn diagrams and allowed the students to reason their way through it.
Show Post
In #MathsToday, Year 13 did some exam practice of Differential Equations. This was a nice opportunity to link in some of their other Pure/Core Pure topics.
Show Post