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Here's an interesting task! [based on Opfer & DeVries, 2008]

I pride myself on my bread-slicing skills, except I so often create an overhang.

Another variant.

Look at the pattern. Intriguing or obvious?!

What sort of answers might one get here?

At today's lunch a friend and I were sharing a bill of £120 + 10%. The waiter suggested two payments of £60 + 5%.

Annoying ad campaign from Amazon

In #MathsToday (Y5) tried to use the standard algorithm to subtract 11:05 hours from 15:00 hours. [We'd already solved it informally.] What happens when we have to 'borrow' 1 from the hours column? Does this give us 10 lots of 10-minutes or 6?

Gulp! What jolly pastime is this?

Alan Shearer, please shut up

Had another look last night at this stimulating book from 1997. "Students build mathematical understandings by reflecting and communicating" about challenging problems. Isn't it time we consigned Teaching for Mastery to history, alongside Gibb, Gove and Cummings, the ideologues who promoted it.

At last, the World Cup proper has begun. What a travesty these last two weeks have been.

@brewdogofficial.bsky.social Cold beer? As opposed to Warm piss? Is this the worst beer in the world? Brewed for 12 year olds, perhaps? Sugar water with a bit of Ovaltine. Yuk.

Ode to Andy Just a bluff little bloke, humble <ahem> “The country needs change, I’ll be your PM” Once king of the north, he a wet and a weed A scheming chiz, now of Makersfield.