Dan Draper

Oh I can’t even imagine haha. In terms of intonation and pitch, I put the ‘ow’ in ‘bowed strings’. 🫠👍

Getting a note out of anything double-reeded is no mean feat imo 😅

*reading.

Maybe that’s why I’m nowhere near 61% 😅🫠

I openly cackled ready this. Diabolical! 😂

Will check this out!

I read an anthology of ‘novellas in flash’ once and it’s such a hard form to pull off. From what I read afterwards this one has its whole third act written especially for a novel so avoids some of those pitfalls.

I liked it, but I’d absolutely recommend DNFing this if the first 30 pages do nothing for you! It continues in that same vein throughout.

The narrative that teens are all phone-obsessed hermits is so damaging and over simplified - we need to celebrate the other narratives like this one: amazing work from the young lads

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I loved it too! I absolutely felt it paid off, but could see why mileage may vary on it.

Congratulations!

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A double number line with the 1 and 7 times table and a series of 'fill the blank' questions such as 21 x ? = 35.

Used a double number line in #MathsToday to help pupils get to grips with going from one number to another using multiplication.

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Love this!

A friend of mine has just launched this website that I think is pretty great for generating quick starters for A-Level maths and he has started adding some questions for Further Maths too.

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#MathsToday #ALevelMaths

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Addition rule for probability P(A U B) = P(A) + P(B) - P(A n B) This is just a rule for not double-counting… Illustrations of the addition rule for two events shown on a Venn diagram, a two way table, and a tree diagram

A diagram showing special cases of the addition rule for mutually exclusive, exhaustive and independent events.

Replace each of a, b, c and d in the Venn diagram with one of the probabilities below: 0.15 0.3 0.1 0.45 Work out P(A), P(B) and P(An B) from your diagram. Are events A and B independent? Find a way of arranging the probabilities so that A and B are independent. How many ways of doing this are there, if you are not allowed to repeat a probability? What if repeats are allowed?

1. Use the clues to complete the Venn diagrams 2. Which pairs of events are mutually exclusive? 3. Which pairs of events are independent? 4. Which pairs of events are exhaustive? 5. Prove that mutually exclusive events cannot be independent.

Probability with Y12. I really like this RiSP about independent events, and this great MathsPad activity to practise the different definitions. It felt like we covered a lot in today’s lesson! #ALevelMaths #MathsToday

Used this in #MathsToday in an attempt to get all of my Y10 understanding composite functions (a few were struggling after I introduced it yesterday).

One pupil joked "they liked maths again" at the end of the lesson so I'll take that as a win!

Love this task!

It’s one of three Discworld books (so far!) that have made me cry 🙌

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I found this v helpful!

I’m not reading them in order as such, but I’m reading the sub-series in order and flitting between. I’d recommend either the next Death book (Reaper Man - it’s amazing!) or the first of another strand (Guards! Guards! for the Watch, Equal Rites for the witches etc.)

do you guys hear that bell tolling? wonder who it’s for. it’s so loud lmao

… being made explicit. “These things are fussy, you’re right! Good job we’re good at thinking in detail amirite yr9?!”

… valid first steps (/(2/3), /2 then x3 or x3 then /2) and they’re all fine. Same with equations like 3(x+1)=12 etc. Is expanding the bracket a ‘step’? I spend ages banging on about BOTH SIDES and now it’s not? And then I’m saying /3 first and don’t worry about it? I find kids like the subtleties …

I don’t tend to talk about steps as you can solve 1 + x = 5 by adding seven to both sides first if you want, it’s not very useful, but it’s still valid as the equality holds. So we start looking for efficiencies rather than ‘steps’. This way when we get to things like (2/3)x = 12, we have three…

I love a run out to Manchester for a library day. I open my laptop for an hour and sit looking around, typing nothing, and then walk about the Northern Quarter.

A visual representation of completing the square with Dienes and Algebra Tiles, comparing 146 = (10 + 2)² + 2 with x² + 4x + 6 = (x + 2)² + 2.

When introducing the idea of Completing the Square, I find numerical examples in base ten can be a helpful stepping stone for pupils.

Bridging the gap between numbers and algebra.