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UK-based Freelance Museum Learning Consultant: tkbriggs.co.uk
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That would be... A different name.
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It's almost certainly a pigpen cipher. The problem is in finding the specific key used: there are an enormous number of those (and it's not one of those that might be termed "standard"), and very little contextual information to help narrow it down.
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I'm not sure what that'd achieve beyond potentially finding the original document (and I can just ask the OP about that).
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There's a very definite uncertainty about it.
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😂
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Yeah, there are various 'standard' orderings and, of course, an enormous possible range of non-standard ones!
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... a name, but is there a likely nationality to narrow it down?
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Thanks! The fact it's in a guest book suggests that they wouldn't be using a deliberately difficult form of the cipher, but it's not 'the' common version that I know. It may well have been different in the time & location it was written, though.
What is the location? It seems it's likely to be...
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This is enlightening. I always assumed you were called The Life and were just being pretentious by listing all your middle names.
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Yep. Every message is algorithmically generated.
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I've done a codebreaking club in the past!
There are a limited number of maths-themed enrichment opportunities provided by museums & galleries (etc), but most don't because they think maths teachers don't want them.
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I'm not an ECT but I get a CONSTANT stream of messages on LinkedIn from recruiters asking me if I'm considering moving to a new school in September because they're working with a school to recruit someone exactly like me. I'm assuming it's something like this.
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Yeah it's not. Nothing compares to teaching. My colleague is off for the rest of the week. We've cancelled most of her meetings. Shared 2 out between us that we didn't want to move. And the rest of her work can wait until she's back. It doesn't compare in the slightest to teaching madness!
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That's nuts.
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That's the plan, in amongst the work!
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Thanks 😊
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... whilst many of them did have a certain amount of slack that needed to be taken up when someone was off sick, in none of them was it anything like the workload involved in covering a teacher who is unwell.
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And there are always people in 'proper' jobs who say "that's what it's like for everyone," and as someone who has worked 'proper' jobs in between teaching roles I can say that they might *think* it's the same thing, but it very much is not. I've had various jobs in different industries and...
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Also, I know that my immediate colleagues, if I said I just couldn't sort out cover would jump in and sort it for me without question or complaint, but it's not fair that they get that extra work dumped on top of an already overflowing pile.
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I'd like to make it explicit that this isn't a complaint against my colleagues or even my school, as this is all perfectly normal for schools: it's not the players, but the game.
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Some days I wonder if leaving teaching again at Easter was the correct decision. Days like today are not among their number.
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If you're looking at museum learning then @gem.org.uk wild be a good one to include
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... we'd stopped off at Eratosthenes, of course). We explored the origin of the modern word 'algebra' in Persian mathematician al-Kwarizmi's book title 'Al-Jabr' (and also touched upon his own name eventually giving us "algorithm").