mathemusician.bsky.social
Mathematics Teacher, Church Organist and Lay Minister. Sometimes all 3 jobs get mixed up...
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I'm not sure I ever *really* forgave my father for losing my red sunhat, just after Mum had sewn a Snowdon Summit badge on it when I was about 6... (we went up on the train, no, I didn't walk up aged 6). Certainly I've never forgotten it.
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Nooo...now I have another puzzle to do. (I think today's might have been a *lot* easier? 62 seconds seems fast...)
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2/2 #organists. Also planning a Mendelssohn recital - sonatas 4&5. Again needing ideas for rest of programme. Nothing too challenging - enough to do getting the sonatas up to scratch. (Starting to raise money to replace our aging digital organ, so a couple of recitals seems a good place to start)
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Some of the text books for optional pure topics in Further Maths might be useful too if they've not covered them (including for old specifications) - Group Theory, Number Theory, Complex Transformations...
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Thanks for recommending this! amsp.org.uk/sums-steps-t... There's a book review every month as well as lots of other suggested further reading, so it's a great starting point.
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Depends. I was impressed that the nice lady at Utility Warehouse actually suggested putting a cap on the data when I asked if I could add mums mobile to our account. It's been useful twice when she hasn't noticed their WiFi wasn't working.
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I think my parents grandchildren were too impatient, and now they're too busy. As, I think, is my brother as mum always phones me. Which is sort of ok for problems with the mobile but not with their WiFi.
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The Cathedral Singers are the choir for this service, and I've signed up to sing, so I'll be there!
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I also think that over time it will become unusual to only be able to teach part of the spec: it's not that long since the curriculum changes but we must already be getting teachers coming through who did the new A level themselves.
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My feeling is that we should be *aiming* for teachers to be ready to teach the whole spec, now that there is no choice of content. To me it doesn't sit comfortably that students need to know it all but teachers don't. But time is limited and teachers may have other PD priorities.
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With the modular A level, when applied modules could swap between Maths and FM, it was reasonable for teachers to specialize. Now all the content for A level is compulsory, I would want all teachers to upskill themselves to teach the full course. But I'd probably still have 2 teachers per class.
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Spot on, but that's not what these were when they were set up. We now have a situation that the expectation is that almost everyone is above average...
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Too late... Thanks for trying to warn us though.
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It's because the standards when defined were average standards and somehow it changed to expected and then required, seemingly without any understanding of the difference.
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Will a practising organist do?
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I even bought red shoes to go with those FMSP polo shirts.
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BTW that red car was *exactly* a real life dynakar. Ford Escort.
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JT and I used to try to outdo each other at who could be most colour coordinated at FMSP events. I trumped his red plastercast by borrowing the Beloved's red car. That's why so much of my work stuff is red.
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Exactly. The grid method leads able students towards the mental method they need, and it's easy to understand and apply for weaker students. I've yet to be convinced it's worth taking limited lesson time to teach harder or less efficient methods.
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I'm also wondering if the people who swear by long division have tried teaching the grid method to students? They might be surprised. Certainly I was fully convinced after trying it out: *all* the students in a not very strong group got the hang of it so quickly, and remembered it reliably.
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I'm wondering what I'm missing here as I haven't found any divisions that need either long division or equating coefficients (which always seems to me a very inefficient method). Can you give an example?
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Yes, we had two of those this morning and they other this evening. Pity the organ conked out halfway through the second verse of St Patrick's Breastplate though.
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Many mathematicians would say that 0 is a natural number. But yes, it's not good writing. Should probably be 'any natural number' given that n is a natural number.
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Wet yes, but it seems to have been so cold too.
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Reasoning not training
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I used to do quadrilaterals from the inside out. Start with diagonal properties and see what you get. Classes seemed to enjoy it and it made them think and do training.
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Our village still has a post office, and there's hardly ever any queue. Good little gift shop too.
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Keep a record and claim TOIL.
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They're pretty good, but we have very limited rehearsal time, and the absence of basses is a real challenge.
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Anything from 2 ladies to SAT usually. Currently rare to have a bass. Also tiny children's choir. (The choir is tiny, not the children )
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Good! That one is probably beyond my choir. I'll take a look.
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This is so beautiful. Thank you for sharing. Where do I find other pieces of yours?
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Hooray for GDPR.
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It's the Goodies' 3-person tandem!!
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It would be really useful if the app would work landscape, so that when you're Zooming from a tablet it's actually big enough for other tablet users to read.
I used to much prefer using the book & only used the app when I had to (eg travelling light), but I don't think I'd go back to the book now.
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The app is great for Zooming Morning Prayer, which we started during COVID and still do. As lay people with busy lives we'd never all make it to church every day, but we do manage to meet in Zoom.
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I didn't have a good experience the one time I tried that from a reputable company but perhaps I should try again.
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Thanks for that. I saw seeds for Russian, but they'd take too long to grow: local supermarket doesn't sell tarragon so I need a plant.
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I'm not wild about mint, but bay would be good. I'll look for winter savoury. One of the thyme is lemon, which I'm looking forward to using.
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Do you know which? But as I said, none of our garden centres seem to have any, so it is perhaps academic.
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I have however now run out of steam, and I still have orders of service to finalise and print + music for next weekend's LLM conference to sort...
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Also wrote new set of CW Pentecost Responses for next week's Evensong and nailed two difficult passages in Mendelssohn's 2nd Cello Sonata (piano part). And surprisingly not feeling utterly exhausted. So *really* good day.
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Went out for breakfast, bought 4 bags compost, did grocery shop, almost filled trug, back to garden centre for 2 more bags, put in 11 tomato plants (8 grown from seed), started herb garden with parsley, sage, rosemary and thyme (2 sorts) + chives in a pot. Can't find tarragon anywhere. A good day!
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Cool. The new vicar played her trumpet. She was a bit concerned about continuity but I pointed out I'd been juggling music and leading lots during the interregnum so nobody will have noticed. Chaos level about 2.
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I have this - it's a particularly lovely book!
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I didn't.
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As might the choir. But many will simply not be prioritising it.