Richard Adamson

Shadow Ticket by Thomas Pynchon.

🤣 I’ve definitely sang with some people for whom that is the modus operandi!

The first bass!!?!

46 more and the Lib Dem will become the official opposition!

Very nice - thanks!

I agree! I stopped using Amazon, Audible and Goodreads this time last year and, to my surprise, I’ve not missed them.

Dracula is brilliant! I have very fond memories of reading it during Year 12 and getting quite scared at various points. Excellent choice! His grandson’s sequel isn’t bad, but nothing like as good.

I am not sure I’ll get the same traction here as I did on the dark place but please answer and REPOST and let’s try to build a lovely bookish thread.

The best book you read this year was…

Mine undoubtedly The Elements by John Boyne (please check trigger warnings first).

I started this a couple of days ago, and have only grudgingly put it down to do such things as eat, sleep and parent. Excellent sci-fi action!

Our head of English read James first and LOVED it (as did I), then read Huck Finn and hated that, so I would definitely give James a go!

Such a good book!

Think, Pair, Share.

Impressive improvisation! Did they have keyboards too?

In #mathstoday, instead of asking the further mathematicians to prove log_3 (2) is irrational, I accidentally asked them to prove ln (2) is irrational… which was much harder 😂

Read the first two in my teens. Loved them. Some scenes still stay with me. The attics. The battle between Flay and Swelter. Such descriptions!

Ah, that’s a shame 🙁

Hi, I’m pretty sure my school advertises on TES. We will have 2 jobs next year, so will probably be advertising later this term or early next. Not sure if Lancaster is too far away though? It’s a lovely school to work at, speaking as someone who left teaching in 2016 due to toxicity.

If you get this message, send help! They’re surrounding my office and I may not be able to send another message. Please help me!!

We watched the first episode, and haven’t cared enough to watch the second yet. Started watching Star Trek TNG for the first time in about 30 years instead!

Which led into a discussion about the number of trials, or whether it is a sample of an infinite run. Great Derren Brown video on flipping 10 heads that I’ll be showing them soon.

Exactly! This then led to discussions about how many heads/tails in a row is suspicious, and if we put them all together for a run of 560, would that still be suspicious.

6 strips of paper with 20 Heads or Tails written on them.

In #mathstoday (yesterday), Y12 Further Maths tried to fool each other by writing what they thought a run of Heads/Tails could look like, then doing a real one. They were very good at detecting fake randomness!

Loved reading this - thank you! Am going to try dropping in some of those in my spiel. Completely agree about coasting, and that’s something we’re trying to tackle as a department.

That’s a minor detail

I always use the graphs. It’s what I used when I did A-level, and it helps them practise sketching them ready for transformations and modelling. I show them CAST, but I find some label it incorrectly and it can become a hindrance.

Got his own D E Eye

3rd one!

Thank you!! We have a 2-year-old, so if you could make him understand this too, that would be great 😬

A rod suspended by two Newton Metres with masses hanging from it. A metre rule and extra masses are nearby.

In #mathstoday with Y12 we looked at suspended moments. They often struggle to visualise what these look like, so we looked at the tension in the ‘strings’ as well as the point of tilting.

This is brilliant! Kept the kids occupied for 5 minute too - thank you!!