MrTaylorMaths

I've been working on our questioning and behaviour management courses, and I think it's now my strong opinion that questioning training is a complete waste of time if students calling out in lessons is a common occurrence. >

Happy birthday to @adamboxer1 ! Thanks for all you do for us edu-folk and even more so for your impact on so many of our students! Keep it spicy.

Hey, @grok who was the most famous person to visit my profile? It doesn't need to be a mutual, don't tag them, just say who it was.

It feels like edu-folk over on substack are posting blogs every day, I can hardly keep up. I also suspect that there's a drop in quality with such a high production rate. Also, it's the summer holidays!

Anxious about behaviour? Need a read that will support you, whether you’re a class teacher or a leader? Try this…. amzn.eu/d/8Ru3wop

Stopped at Tebay en route to @KeswickMin Convention. Playing the guess the other convention-goers game.

In other words, the risk is not simply “screen time,” but unfiltered access to an environment designed to shape behaviour and thinking in ways even adults struggle to resist. Allowing this access before a child has built the inner defences of self‑regulation and critical…

Social media platforms are not neutral spaces; they are carefully engineered ecosystems designed to capture and hold attention, to amplify emotionally charged content, and to exploit psychological vulnerabilities in order to drive engagement. This is incontestably bad for kids.

What is the effect of giving children smartphones before the age of 13? It's bad. Strongly associated with poorer mental health and wellbeing. BUT the evidence is largely correlational. What does this mean? 🧵⬇️

FREE CRECHE at researchED National Conference 2025 Inclusion for child-carers matters. As usual we will be running our fully licensed creche at the researchED National Conference. And, as usual, this will be entirely FREE for anyone who needs to use it in order to enable…

Prime Factory! A fun game to practise prime factorisation. What's the largest prime you can unlock? mathsbot.com/puzzles/primeF…

Can you fill the boxes with a set of consecutive integers? A great starter activity for revising properties of numbers. mathsbot.com/puzzles/consec…

Many teachers I speak to feel frustrated that they spent a long time in their teaching using practices they now recognise may not have been supporting student learning. But they need to know…

I love this question from our mini-whiteboard training course, because it relates to something that is completely inexplicable, but I see happening a lot, and am guilty of having done myself! Can you spot the issue?

#OTD in 2017 Wolves announced the signing of Diogo Jota, on loan from Atletico Madrid. What a signing he was ❤️#wolves #wwfc

"The problem that the Labour government has is that it is a group of very clever, well-intentioned people who do not seem to be able to get things done." Great stuff by @willydunn for @NewStatesman newstatesman.com/politics/uk-po…

Jedi order in a nutshell redd.it/1m4t6gi

A high stakes, high pressure race to cross the nasty negative bridge of doom. Anyone going sub 10 seconds is a hero. mathsbot.com/puzzles/nastyN…

📢 Announcing new events: Beyond the Numbers 2025: How statistics can support the application of problem solving in real-world scenarios and classrooms. In partnership with @AQAMaths, this exam board neutral, one day event takes a deeper look at statistics and making decisions…

My beautiful words only appear for 10, 20, maybe 25 years. But happy 13th birthday to Handwritten.