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Harry practicing blowing raspberries at 4.20am

Happy half term!

Anyone expecting a baby? Get comfortable with chatGPT.

Laura explained that the clocks had gone back and we needed to change his sleep time by 1 hour ish to accommodate and it gave us a step by step plan for the day and it worked a dream! Up at 6.20 today!

Life is just so much more boring and repetitive but so much more meaningful.

I never realised sleep was optional either for adults haha!

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Harry’s been up on and off since 5am which means tomorrow that will be 4am

Log my counting like terms with ‘comparing to a perfect square’ instead of completing the square

Why won’t you teach them in year 11???

Counting like terms would be better (imo)

Feeling seen haha

No one shares anything mathsy either anymore or at least it’s hard to find it amongst the shite.

I guarantee your season hasn’t been as bad as ours haha!!

If I’m being honest o tried binning it off but this place doesn’t yet offer anywhere near the level of discourse for football

Two weeks and then 5 months.

He’s still alive now but we’ve let his new chosen owners keep him as he kept going back there.

No idea why? He was treated like a king here.

Thinking about sacking off twitter all together. It’s half full of racists and half full of so called progressives who spend their entire existence sniping at those working on the front line in education to make a real difference over things like toilet passes etc. It is a sewer.

New lad at the barbers has massacred my hair and spent the whole time talking to me. I dunno what was worse.

Bum cheeks full of Vaseline. Must be Robin Hood Half marathon day.

I guess that’s not unusual as it’s outside of your specialism and quite nitty gritty but next time Mr Gibb has a book due to come out it’d be great if you could pull him up on it 😂

Apologies but I suspect our intakes are very very different. I make no accusations about the effectiveness of primary teachers I’m in agreement of the excellent job they do but those who need it most are missing out on a valid method that would help them understand very much what is going on.

Yes which is so frustrating because now we just get a high number of students not knowing exactly why there’s a zero/placeholder but they know they need one when using column

Yeah I understand what you’re saying and I’m not dismissing other methods at all but I’m a bit dismayed by his lack of understanding of the grid. It’s clear he believes it to be some easy simpleton method rather than what it actually is.

Finally whilst I know I’m harping on about the grid method not only does it lend itself to unpicking the structures of the maths it also allows us to generalise to algebra.

A totally duff comment by NG.

I think that comment made him seem inconsistent in his statements.

Does he want understanding like he suggests? Or does he want fast algorithms as he also suggested at the expense of a grid method for example.

@adamboxereducation.bsky.social whilst I agree with a lot of the changes in the 2010s it’s a shame to hear NG describe grid method multiplication as a nonsense method.

It’s grounded in understanding the structure of the maths and is based on an area model - the most concrete example we have.

That’s not your bed buddy

Harry is 11 weeks old today and me and Laura have finally managed to sit and watch a film together on a Friday night with some food. What a milestone!

House has been up for sale for months. The Sunday before I go back to work we get an offer of asking price.

Brilliant timing.

Went in a couple days last week to sort a few bits out and have never felt as relaxed 😂

The first version of the game I ever played! But on PSP.

Parenthood just bounces between being dead easy - a joy, and wanting to launch myself out the 3rd floor velux with very little middle ground and even less sleep.

Get innnnn. Good job the baby had already woken up for a feed haha

Marcus Rashford’s agent must be able to hypnotise people