morrismaths359.bsky.social
Secondary Maths teacher
Keeping my username the same.
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I would definitely not be productive at home, it's where all my fun stuff is! Saying that I'm grateful that my school is pretty distraction free in my PPA time.
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My primary school classes were named after birds, we only had one class per year so you could either say the year or the bird. The big one was reception, reduced the confusion if you were going to reception or reception class.
I can easily recognise those birds now in nature.
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6 months stalking rightmove, then the first house I saw in person I offered. (Then checking it wasn't just rose tinted glasses) I basically saw the house on Rightmove and I was like this is the one, this is worth the effort to see it in person.
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If you haven't seen it before
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Is the grams of chocolate to volume of the tub directly proportional to each other. How much is environmental and how much is shrinkflation.
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Well I'm hungry now
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When I was in school we were shown how to use a radio and where to direct the cars to and where the overflow was. It was a 5 minute lesson where the kids on 2nd duty got taught by the kids on 1st.
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Not my current school but I had a class of 36. It just didn't work.
Had a class of 34 for a middle set so even if you got 80% understanding that there were still 6 or 7 kids that were confused and you just got spread too thin to help them all. Constant stress, alot happier now.
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Oh damn just realised what you meant. (I'm going to blame that I didn't get much sleep last night)
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It's a weird looking trapezium.
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Well that was a normal photo when I posted it. No idea how it got so stretched.
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Happy Birthday!
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I could see it working if there was a defer option.
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That would be useful, I could see some downsides like when I want to have something from last term that links to today's lesson or where students struggled so you include a similar question on the next starter.
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I think I'm going to be printing out a whole bunch of those now. I haven't used multiplication squares before.
Might be something to also bring out when they do simplifying fractions, weirdly they can simplify ratio but not fractions.
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Might potentially work, but I do have some kids in there that I'm really hoping to get a grade 1 for their GCSEs.
They had a lot of issues when it came to finding a stopping point in the middle. E.g. For 6 to 8 using 2 as a gap measure.
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Not at all. Just remembering complaints that people went to sleep at about 2am after Friday night drinks, then had to wake up early.
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Maybe the amount of sleep you got Friday night didn't help.
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The session you did at MathsConf with these was honestly just great. Literally been thinking about it every day since of how can I incorporate these types of things into my lessons.
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Just the groups. Only got to keep 1 group from last year.
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I've worked in a school with an interactive board (current) and one with a whiteboard and projector.
I so prefer my interactive whiteboard so much.
I can't stand still for long periods of time (2+ minutes) so standing with a wireless slate wouldn't work for me, and I'd likely drop it.
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I'm thankful my parents bought me up teaching me about my finances. Teaching kids from an early age has so many benefits to financial independence.
I will be looking forward to paying off the mortgage, but I'm happy to get on the property ladder.
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Oh yeah, I'm not planning on keeping it at 40 years, it will get adjusted once my fixed term ends but at my current salary it makes sense. Allows me the funds to buy furniture and build up the safety net again.
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This might actually surprise you, I'm currently in the process of buying (x4.2 salary at the time, 40 years) My mortgage will be 2/3 of my current rent, and at the time of sorting my mortgage my student finance was £33 a month. 6 times less then I put away for pension.
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I think I would lose them. When I say they are ahead of the others.. the others need to start with their 2, 5 and 10 timetables but they have got basically all but 9 and 12s down. They are an intervention group so off the normal scheme of work.
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Currently Place value counters. I'm using them for multiple hours each week now and I'm actually starting to really love them.
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This was the only equating coefficients question, but I didn't tell them how to do it due to it being the connected challenge.
I think they will look at the types properly when we get onto the solving equations topic, but that's not until later in the year.
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One from corbettmaths
Given (x + 3)(x + a)(x + 7) = x³ + 15x² + 71x + 105, Find a
I do quite like these types