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simon-gregg.bsky.social
Primary teacher at the International School of Toulouse - back in Pre-K this year with 3-5 year olds. Also, teacher with responsibility for maths at IST Primary. Often tweet & blog maths, play and Early Years https://followinglearning.blogspot.com/
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Drawing on the big whiteboard

submitted 11 days ago • 1 comment

I think the green circle because it could not be made from the heart shaped cookie cutter. It still belongs though - as a color coordinate accessory! I mean just the right belt really puts a fit together. I'm a contrarian and a joiner.

submitted 14 days ago • 0 comments

Which one doesn’t belong? Join the fun and share your ideas! #WODB #21CenturyPB #iTeachMath

submitted 46 days ago • 4 comments

Which one doesn't belong? (and why?) 💗 #wodb

submitted 15 days ago • 4 comments

@estelleash.bsky.social

submitted 15 days ago • 0 comments

How come one of these arrangements is so much more 6 than the other?

submitted 19 days ago • 7 comments

Creating - and modifying again and again - a big home-made marble run in the classroom

submitted 16 days ago • 1 comment

We left the 100 square up, and this student used it to create a colourful design probably not what @studymaths.bsky.social had in mind for it - but that's Early Years for you!

submitted 16 days ago • 1 comment

This was kind of wonderful. This 4-yo student, probably responding to our earlier #wodb, made 4 patterns in the orange trays - and then put them all together in the white tray

submitted 16 days ago • 1 comment

#mathsky when you think math or math ed or math teaching + joy, of whom do you think?

submitted 17 days ago • 15 comments

Something characteristic of young learners - they get to a point - not our point - and say to themselves, right, I've got that, let's try something different now. Here, two students decide to change from the pattern:

submitted 16 days ago • 1 comment

Which one doesn't belong? (and of course why?) #wodb

submitted 17 days ago • 2 comments

Now with better featured image! talkingmathwithkids.com/wodb-shapes

submitted 18 days ago • 1 comment

A wonderful story of how we know about the sizes of the Earth, Moon, Sun, planets, and the distances between them, told by Terence Tao and @3blue1brown.bsky.social ☀️🌒🌍

submitted 18 days ago • 0 comments

This is a nice pattern blocks puzzle from @tilefarmer.bsky.social In case you don't have pattern blocks, here's an online version: apps.mathlearningcenter.org/pattern-shap...

submitted 24 days ago • 2 comments

A car hubcap, wooden lines, arrows, crosses, & shapes become an Nursery child’s materials for play. And Citroen’s design inspires an exploration of: rotation, angle, shape, number, & magnitude. Drawing = Maths = Joy

submitted 26 days ago • 1 comment

In #MathsToday, we’ve defined a “pattern block coaster” to be: - a hexagon in the middle - a total area of 4 hexagons - with rotational symmetry. Have we missed any? I would buy these if they existed.

submitted 25 days ago • 3 comments

Making Numberblocks A blog post about some enthusiastic representation of numbers #Math #ITeachMath #EduSky #UKMathsChat #iTeachMaths #EarlyYears #PreK #Numberblocks followinglearning.blogspot.com/2025/01/we-h...

submitted 29 days ago • 1 comment

Myths about using manipulatives in #maths educationendowmentfoundation.org.uk/news/myth-bu...

submitted 29 days ago • 1 comment