‼️We've just launched a FREE
@SparxMaths
curriculum. For HoDs, schools leaders+maths teachers who know a well-designed, coherent+ well-resourced curriculum is at the heart of high-quality teaching+ workload reduction ➡️
📢 Ok, get this...at
@SparxMaths
we've created the most AWESOME GCSE Crossover Workbooks (1 per strand) to support revision for those Qs that appear on both Foundation and Higher tiers. All you've got to do is like and retweet this and I'll send you your FREE copy next week 📢
Getting ready for xmas+found this photo, taken by my old HoD, capturing when I finished my first term of teaching. I was so exhausted that when the last lesson ended I sat down and next thing I know...sparko! Wishing everyone in schools a wonderful+ thoroughly deserved xmas rest!
We know many students, teachers, parents (now!) and schools are relying on HegartyMaths. We care deeply. We will continue to do EVERYTHING we can to ensure kids can learn on our system at this difficult time. It's our number one priority.
UPDATE: Today HegartyMaths held up much better despite being nearly twice as busy as yesterday when it struggled. Huge praise to my wonderful
@HegartyTeam
who are still on the case all night and ridic early tomorrow to ensure our system can support you for tomorrow and beyond.
We've had unprecedented traffic this morning on HegartyMaths and we know it's having trouble coping. The
@HegartyTeam
are on the case and spinning up several new app servers right now to help.
UPDATE: Normal HegartyMaths day: 200,000 sessions, yesterday nearly 800,000! We've made lots of extra changes yesterday + overnight. We're monitoring the platform really closely to ensure we can support all those schools and students. Good luck today!
UPDATE: We've managed to ensure HegartyMaths is no longer timing out with errors despite the tremendous load. Students should now be able to do their work + use videos but it may still be slower than normal. We are closely monitoring this situation as it is our main priority.
UPDATE: We've upped our number of servers from 4 to 18 but this still hasn't resolved the unbelievable traffic. You may still be experiencing issues. The
@HegartyTeam
are still on it full-time to see what we can do. Please bear with us as we try everything we can think of.
We're billionaires! We've been so busy over the last few months that we didn't even spot this...Students have answered way over 1 billion Qs on HegartyMaths (this actually happened before lockdown in March). We're so proud to support all the HegartyMaths teachers and students!
So unbelievably proud that, despite challenges with HegartyMaths Mon-Wed, over half a million kids still managed to learn maths. Today, Hegarty was back to it's best so the stats for today will be through the roof when I check at midnight!
#hegartymaths
#HomeLearningUK
#proud
And, Year 6 students can now access
#SecondaryReady
– a course to help them prepare for starting Year 7 in September – free-of-charge through Numerise. Sign up today and prevent the
#summerslide
with maths:
✳ Coming soon ✳
Next week, we'll be releasing a brill maths transition pack, with space for workings & answers for marking. It's got 100
@SparxMaths
Qs over 12 key maths topics differentiated to support all students preparing to start y7. RT if you want me to send you a copy
OK, so the Y6/7 transition packs were soooooo popular, that I was thinking of asking the unbelievable content design team
@SparxMaths
to create a booklet/course to support for y11/12 transition (i.e. getting ready for AS). If a good idea, RT this to sigal "yes please I want one"
UPDATE: We've upped our number of servers from 4 to 18 but this still hasn't resolved the unbelievable traffic. You may still be experiencing issues. The
@HegartyTeam
are still on it full-time to see what we can do. Please bear with us as we try everything we can think of.
We've had unprecedented traffic this morning on HegartyMaths and we know it's having trouble coping. The
@HegartyTeam
are on the case and spinning up several new app servers right now to help.
UPDATE: Big change at 12pm (see blue vertical) seems to have worked (see big hump moving to a small flat-ish line). Hegarty seems very happy now and ready for students to get on with some work. We are not stopping and continue to make it better every minute.
UPDATE: Hegartymaths is flying along. 30,000 concurrent students all morning since 9:00am. Let's get some maths done! Will update with learning stats each day to celebrate great maths learning in challenging times.
At HegartyMaths LEARNING is at the heart of everything we do. As a team, we work hard to embody the values in our picture attached to help us be better learners and make HegartyMaths better everyday.
To try to be helpful for our schools, teachers and students, we'll be making some resources matching the
@HegartyTeam
and
@SparxMaths
clips/codes to the topic lists provided by exam boards yesterday. Hopefully this should save you time and help your classes.
History of HegartyMaths and the crazy week passed. So proud to be there to support our students, teachers, parents and schools. We will continue to work relentlessly to ensure we support you over the coming weeks. Get some rest everyone.
Despite a shaky start this morn for 30 mins (*really* sorry everyone!) students still completed nearly 6 million questions and about 1 million lessons on Hegarty today. Since schools shut the learning has added to 2 full Centuries of Learning (24 hours a day, 365.25 days a year)
Fancy a set of footballs with our Sparx logo on, to give to your students doing well on Sparx? We're also giving away Sparx netballs, tennis balls, & pens that make great rewards. Enter our prize draw by retweeting and replying to this tweet.
Amazing new feature... Now, when students press "Get help" when doing a quiz in HegartyMaths, the video automatically starts at the precise modelled example they need.
#nomorevideoscrubbing
So proud of the
@SparxMaths
content team. Today we managed to launch a new AQA Level 2 Further Maths GCSE Curriculum to support our schools with students taking this this fab additional course. We're working towards full coverage over time but launch with over 90%+ coverage.
🚨🚨 Following the love from you all for our
@SparxMaths
free Year 7 transition packs, we're so excited to launch our next FREE resource at the end of this week. We've designed a formative baseline assessment, for your Year 7 students. Retweet this, to be sent the link first.
Sorry it's late. Going to try first YouTube live lesson tomorrow free for any student. Aim to support Y11s thinking of A-Level to go over topics they need to be fluent on. Short lessons 20 mins with practice posted afterwards. This link should work. .
We want to help your students improve their memory. So we're about to launch our latest feature which uses all your students' prior learning data to make adaptive & personalised retrieval practice for each of them. More info coming in a few weeks. So excited!
Worried about Y11s transitioning to Y12 - so going to do daily free live lessons on youtube for all students interested in A-Level to help bridge the gap (hopefully starting Wednesday)
‼️Some AWESOME news. All 6 GCSE Crossover revision packs are now available for FREE download. Incredibly well-written
@SparxMaths
questions to support your students with effective revision. Enjoy 😎
We listened as we know you needed this to reduce workload (esp at this time during school closures!) Simply...Search skill, preview Qs to ensure you're happy, select multiple classes + assign work. So much time saved! Proud we managed this! Share with your maths teachers.
So we've finished making a Y11->A-Level transition pack. I did the Qs myself (sooo fun!)-just what students need to get fluent & prepare for the step-up. I've sent a copy to 600+people who asked (hands sore!). If I've missed you let me know by following
@SparxMaths
+ RTing this.
To close gaps identified for new y7s taking the
@SparxMaths
baseline, we built weekly follow-up Fluency quizzes sequenced to get progressively harder. Here are all of them in 1 big file ()+a link to all the baseline materials
I'm proud that, despite challenges, we've helped schools provide some positive maths learning - 85 million Qs, 10 million lessons & 2 million learning hours. And we've provided free daily live lessons for Y11s attended by 1,000 kids a day. Proud of
@HegartyTeam
&
@sparxlearning
Lola is the most amazing+inspiring young girl. I got goosebumps when I watched this as I was so inspired by how brave+determined Lola is. Mum asked me to share/RT to inspire any other kids who may be nervous of maths or doubting themselves. Think I’ve got something in my eye! 🥲
UPDATE: We're taking down HegartyMaths for 15 mins from 12:00 to 12:15 today for some additional maintenance/improvements. Please ask your students to avoid that period for their work and logon afterwards. We are doing everything we can to ensure we can cope with the demand.
Really proud of what we did here-26 lessons at 2pm each weekday for 26 days in a row, 139 modelled examples, 280 Qs for students to practise, worksheets provided, 115k student views, a pack made for Jun/July/Aug + lots of fun along the way! via
@YouTube
So excited to announce our latest feature - Automatic and interleaved spaced retrieval practice for your students using all their prior learning data. It's going to be EPIC! Hope to release next week for summer auto-homework MemRi via
@YouTube
Ok, I think I've personally messaged back everyone who wanted the
@SparxMaths
Y6->7 Transition Pack. Hopefully everyone got it?! Now to drive to Kettering for
#MathsConf29
tomorrow - can't wait. msg me if you didn't get pack yet. See you tomorrow if you're there
20 live lessons for A-Level transition students over 20 weekdays so far. 116 examples modelled worked through with them, 200 practice questions provided for additional practice, 100,000 views. Pretty happy with what we've done...
via
@YouTube
🧮RESOURCE ALERT🧮 Our
@SparxMaths
Y6-Y7 transition pack was so successful I can't keep up with sharing so we've made a page so you can get it easily. Here's it is Pls RT to share widely so others can get the benefit.
I'm taking this as a compliment? "bro, this site is bare peng, innit. My level has tuk a flite to NYC bruddah. Like, bare high, innit. Showing sum luv to a bruvva. ly hegster mans out xx"
Amazing moment this morning...Students have completed over 1 BILLION questions on
@SparxMaths
WOW! Thank you to all our wonderful community of MATs, schools, school leaders, teachers, students and parents for trusting in us. We're proud to serve you.
All revision lists on HegartyMaths are now updated for the new 98 lessons. One of my favourites is Year 12 AS transition course with 180 lessons that students just have to nail to cope with demands of AS. I want all Y12s to get 100% on all this by half term. It makes a big diff
Would you like your GCSE students aiming for grades 5+ in Maths to practise loads of Qs like this? Check out our FREE
@SparxMaths
GCSE Crossover Topic workbooks - perfect for revision! 📢Our Geometry pack has just been released today
Tell your Y11s thinking of A-Level Maths to tune in tomorrow (2pm) to do some more maths with me. Revising more surds. Pls RT if you can or share with your classes.
#sparxfamily
#hegartymathslive
Mr Hegarty A-Level prep with Mr Hegarty! via
@YouTube
New content.... 98 brand new lessons covering 12 topics were released today on HegartyMaths. This takes the number of lessons on HegartyMaths to a whopping 853!!!! Teachers - check your emails for full details. Thank you to all our wonderful teachers, students & schools.
Going to bed after a long week but even now after 10pm on Friday night (always our quietest time by far!) still over 2,500 kids are learning maths. Take a break if you can guys and see you refreshed for more learning tomorrow & next week.
Exciting to be asked by
@CNBC
to speak on live US TV this morning about the role of technology in education. Key message: learning via human interaction is crucial & teachers will always be front and centre for the best student learning.
@SquawkBoxEurope
We listened and wanted to help during lockdown...the developers at HegartyMaths made it happen and you can now set work to multiple classes as so many of you have asked us for. Proud!
Well-written, focused key skills Qs on all 2022 GCSE/IGCSE Advance Topics. Use for starters, retrieval, checks for understanding in lesson. Share with your teachers and schools. Really hope you find them useful. RT / like if valuable for others. ➡️
📢 BIG news - today we launched our FREE
@SparxMaths
5 year curriculum! Just take a look here I'm confident maths teachers will find this curriculum so helpful and time-saving and the feedback so far has been overwhelmingly positive. Let us know what you…
In a period of uncertainty for so many schools, we would like to help where we can. If you think that HegartyMaths could help your secondary school during a school closure, please let us know on contact
@hegartymaths
.com and we will get back to you as soon as we can.
#COVID19
This evening I was so proud to celebrate 25 years of the
@TeachingAwards
at
@10DowningStreet
. What a wonderful organisation celebrating teachers and the profession.
To try to be helpful for our schools, teachers and students, we'll be making some resources matching the
@HegartyTeam
and
@SparxMaths
clips/codes to the topic lists provided by exam boards yesterday. Hopefully this should save you time and help your classes.
If you asked your students to name this shape what % do you reckon would say parallelogram? This example of a trapezium is rarely seen in textbook examples.
Maybe the best compliment we've ever got... 😜 Student messaged to say "Hegarty maths is so crap! Why couldn’t our school just stick with [other maths website]. That so was much easier and less effort?" Answer...because it was too easy and you didn't need to put any effort in!
Excited to share that we're working on a new
@SparxMaths
student interface for Sept...
✅ Refreshed + clean look and feel
✅ Simplified bookwork checks
✅ Improved + quicker question navigation
We'll then work tirelessly make things even better for students based on feedback on…
15 daily A-Level transition lessons here. Example-problem pairs, lots of practice, review exercises, model answers + some banter. Share with your Y11 classes (next week line graphs!) Pls RT via
@YouTube
Very proud of HegartyMaths in 2017. It's been a fantastic year but right now I'm so excited for bigger and better things for the year ahead. Thank you to all our wonderful partner schools and their wonderful teachers, students and parents!
#ukedchat
#edtech
#mathschat
So now we've released 3 of our 6 GCSE Crossover workbooks. You can download them for free ➡️ . Feedback from schools so far has been incredible!
#gcses2023
A year 9 student and his teacher just messaged me to say he has clocked HegartyMaths. I think he might be the youngest pupil to ever to clock the site. Oh my word. Wow!
If your school has closed due to
#COVID19
, you and your students can access
@sparxlearning
Virtual Classroom free-of-charge (lesson outlines, tasks, video help and insights into class progress) to maintain high-quality education:
Going live on YouTube again at 2pm today. Making a start on rationalising surds (20 mins) just to make sure all those basics are in order for students wanting to do A-Level maths. Share with Y11s/any student who might benefit. via
@YouTube
🚨As promised🚨here's our
@SparxMaths
baseline assessment for incoming Year 7s Next week we'll release a mark scheme, QLA and start our weekly fluency quizzes to help close any gaps. Hope you like and do let us know on reply what you think!
Last month HegartyMaths had 1.2 million student visits with average learning time of 23 minutes. That's some amount of learning - about half a million hours of learning in a month.
#veryproud
#mathschat
#ukedchat
Total pleasure to spend yesterday eve with
@mrbartonmaths
talking all things from meditation, sleep, family - oh yea and, of course, loadsa maths and his AMAZING book. What a legend!
We’re absolutely delighted to announce that HegartyMaths will be joining forces with
@Sparxlearning
. This exciting
#Sparxfamily
partnership will allow us to have greater, sustainable impact in the delivery of
#maths
education in the UK and internationally:
So humbling that 100k+ students login to
@hegartymaths
& complete 4 years of learning every single day. We're working on something incredible with
@SparxMaths
that will triple this learning. So proud but equally ambitious to do better. Haven't come this far to only come this far.
Oh wow - this is really funny. Getting to 'pie' your maths teacher on 3.14 pie day for completing 100% of
@SparxMaths
- Wonder if that helped completion rates to shoot up? Teachers at
@CampsmountAcad
are good for a proper laugh!
All 11 live lessons so far to share with your classes covering surds, indices, manipulating powers.
With your turn/my turn + writing frames + review exercise. Hope these help. via
@YouTube
OK, so the awesome
@SparxMaths
content team have finished. I'll be sending copies of the y11 to A-level transition tonight for those who let me know. Inside scoop- it's fab and I did the questions myself and really enjoyed it.
OK, so the Y6/7 transition packs were soooooo popular, that I was thinking of asking the unbelievable content design team
@SparxMaths
to create a booklet/course to support for y11/12 transition (i.e. getting ready for AS). If a good idea, RT this to sigal "yes please I want one"
Dear Carla. You should indeed be so proud of Alice! What a magnificent achievement to complete all 925 lessons at 100%. Please say hi to Alice from me and how proud of her I am too! Also proud to work with super
@NorthOxAcademy
Mr H 🎄🎅