Dan Draper

For crying out loud

S: It’s obvious. If you had a ruler and you enlarged it, the 90° won’t become larger, it will still stay as 90°.
Love it when a student uses a relational example to convince me!
#MathsToday

My Further Maths class are struggling with proof by induction series summations -- I've put together a backwards faded task.

Not written up solutions but available to download as a pdf and editable .pptx here :

mrchapmanmaths.wordpress.com/2025/12/01/p...

Bog People now has one of those little orange best seller flags on it on Amazon as it’s at number 1 across a few categories. 🙌

No. If you want to buddy up to big tech do it with your own people. Leave the kids I'm responsible for alone.

Bog People: A Working-Class Anthology of Folk Horror review – dark tales with a sting This collection of macabre stories set across England explores class, hierarchy and the enduring nature of inequality

Bog People, the anthology I’m in that came out in October, has had a review in The Guardian. It’d make a dead good Christmas present - you could even give it to someone else.

www.theguardian.com/books/2025/n...

Is there a Sparx-esque app/program for language grammar drills? Like verb conjugations and stuff that adapts to you and settles the difficulty with some spaced practice etc.?

Love this ‘twenty five hundred thousand’. Makes such a nice link to when they do calculation and conversions from not quite standard form!

Four students write the number 2,500,000 in words. Two and a half million. Two million, five hundred thousand Twenty-five hundred thousand. A quarter of a billion. Which are correct? Use a place value chart to help.

The four descriptions from the previous slide modelled in four place value charts.

I enjoyed doing this question with Y7 #MathsToday. I need to remember to revisit this with Y8 when they start standard form - it’s exactly the way I want them to be thinking about it.

Love these!

#Mathstoday
Year 8 finished their section on simplifying expressions ending with adding x^2 types to the mix. They also got to do some finding expressions of perimeter questions.

How is it managing to be gross AND smug?!

I love the idea of this, but I feel like it wouldn’t be a goer for us for loss of lesson time

good for flagging kids not working outside of lessons (as in by week 2 you’ve handed in three late homeworks etc.) but the planning/organising is sending me round the hat rack 😫 3/3

of time! This has meant it’s been a pain workload wise to organise. But I set written homework every lesson, check it’s been done (as in by eye not marking it) and then give them my worked solutions. They’re then expected to pick up any issues outside of lessons in hw club etc. Found it’s been 2/3

This year I’ve gone in hard on small homework every single lesson. The idea is that we wean them off the support through the course because when we just expect them to be independent right off the bat we just get headaches - even setting anything where they could just copy answers was a waste 1/3

ask your doctor if lying down in the forest to be consumed by the earth is right for you

I read Jane Eyre for the first time this year and loved it. I also love DH Lawrence’s Sons and Lovers (but Lady Chatterly’s Love is a steaming turd of a book).

Teachers Talk Connect 2026 | Teachers Talk Radio The multi subject national event from TTR - Free for teachers!

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Today I’m trying to stay calm even though a good chunk of year 10 are falling down on sim eqs because they’ve got 24/2 = 6. The algbera’s fine. (I am not fine.)

Was this Ilson? Because they’ve got plenty of room for that sushi bit I’ve never seen a single person at ever.

I love this idea as it forces me to think of good stuff rather than <generally panicking>

1) A couple of my yr13s have had their hard work pay off massively
2) I feel like I’ve improved how I teach risk in AQA Core Maths 2B compared to last year
3) My year 9 group ask brilliant insightful questions

The Screwtape Letters is a premium feature, lads.

A multitude of Edwiges in kaleidoscopic white hues: All the Colors of the Dark (1972), Sergio Martino

Mimsy Farmer cut by light through the blinds considers a colorful vase featuring an iris in The Perfume of the Lady in Black (1974), Francesco Barilli

Florinda Bolkan stuns in yellow in front of a stained-glass window with a gorgeous peacock design in Footprints (1975), Luigi Bazzoni

Jennifer O'Neill contemplates a mystery in the red glow of her lampshade: Lucio Fulci's giallo masterpiece The Psychic (1977)

My favorite flavor of giallo: fashionable haunted women in existential crisis mode aka haute paranoia

This looks fantastic! 🙌😍

Amazing! 😅

It’s been very validating 😅

I could cut down my marking time if I stopped throwing a wobbler throughout. They’re assessments and I’m reacting to each question like they’re cup final penalties.

Even then, if you have an answer, discussing multiple routes to get there is also highly effective mathematical talk that deepens knowledge of maths!