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Dan Draper

@dandraper.bsky.social

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Writer: flash; short stories; audio drama; having another crack at a novel. Maths teacher: mostly in the classroom; occasional freelance bits; some ITT roles with fancy job titles. danieldraper.uk

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Dan Draper @dandraper.bsky.social · 20h

Ace! I’ve ordered one 😅👍

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Dan Draper @dandraper.bsky.social · 22h

I definitely need to give this a go! 🙌

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Miss Morris @morrismaths359.bsky.social · 1d

#mathstoday
I've had in the past students finding it difficult to decide if an expression would factorise into a single or double bracket. So I created a mix of 20 questions to try and build that skill of deciding which one to use. Unsurprisingly a lot of them struggled. Better now than an exam!

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Catriona Agg @catrionaagg.bsky.social · 6d

In #MathsToday I made 40 A Level teachers colour in representations of the binomial distribution.

This is your regular reminder that if you teach #ALevelMaths you should definitely try to join your local Maths Hub’s A Level Pedagogy group. There is some brilliant stuff going on all over England.

A quartet of representations of the binomial distributions. Screenshots from https://www.desmos.com/calculator/3ea50eafbc

X ~B (10, 0.4)
Shade the diagrams to represent the probability
P(3 ≤X <6)
and draw a numberline.

X~B(10,0.4)
Shade the diagrams to represent the probability P(3 ≤ X < 6) and draw a
numberline.

X ~ B(8, 0.7)
Which is larger:
P(X < 5) or P(X = 6)?

X~B(12,0.36)
P(X ≥ c) < 0.5
What is the smallest possible value of c?

X~B(10,0.4)
Calculate the interquartile range of this distribution.
What is the mode?

X~B(8, 0.7)
P(X ≤ a) < 0.1
What is the largest possible value of a?
P(X ≥ b) < 0.1
What is the smallest possible value of b?

X~B(12,0.36)
P(X ≤ a) < 0.2
What is the largest possible value of a?
P(X ≥ b) < 0.2
What is the smallest possible value of b?

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Dan Draper @dandraper.bsky.social · 6d

I love this!

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Hannah @neechmaths.bsky.social · 6d

In #Alevelmaths syllabus (we do AQA) are they expected to be able to deal with fractional roots / factors of form (ax+b) using the factor theorem?

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Maths Locke @mathsmuse.bsky.social · 6d

Had an epiphany yesterday: teach angles questions as a series of reasons with numbers as an after thought instead of other way round.

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MrLevMaths @mrlevmaths.bsky.social · 7d

Made this Circle Theorems and Trigonometry worksheet inspired by interwoven maths @nathanday.bsky.social in #Mathstoday

PPT and answers here: chelekmaths.com/most-recent-...

Worksheet involving circle theorems and trigonometry

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Amanda Austin @draustinmaths.com · 9d

✨New A-level resources from this week's Year 12 lessons on graphical inequalities, algebraic fractions and algebraic division. The new A-level section is slowly growing! www.draustinmaths.com/a-level
#MathsToday #ALevelMaths #UKMathsChat

A-level Maths task on finding the remainder when dividing a polynomial by a linear expression using algebraic long division.

A-level Maths task on shading regions in two dimensions divided by linear and quadratic inequalities.

$A-level Maths tasks on (i) solving linear and quadratic inequalities graphically, and (ii) simplifying algebraic fractions either by splitting the fraction or by factorising.$

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Jon Fant @fantasticmaths.bsky.social · 8d

Last Friday I posted about how we have encorporated difference of two squares before factorising. We follow the @lasalleed.bsky.social scheme of work.

substack.com/@fantasticma...

Unlocking Difference of Two Squares

Planned and purposeful journey of multiplication: building on the area model to unlock quadratic free difference of two squares.

substack.com

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Dan Draper @dandraper.bsky.social · 8d

I am struggling with my year 11 classes so much this year. Trying to get a bit of headspace to find out how to meet them where they are, but I’ve never known it be this draining!

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Kay Vaindal @kayv.bsky.social · 20d

Nothing pleases me more like a kudzu-covered telephone pole on a foggy day

Kudzu-covered telephone pole at a stoplight in Cecil county, MDx looks like a creature

And another! Harford county, MD. This one looks more Wispy and the vegetation is dead

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Bob Fry @bobfry.bsky.social · 14d

October Country
Ray Bradbury
for @tomsbrown.bsky.social and any others who love this month.

OCTOBER COUNTRY
By Ray Bradbury
... that country where it is always turning late in the year. That country where the hills are fog and the rivers are mist; where noons go quickly, dusks and twilights linger, and midnights stay. That country composed in the main of cellars, sub-cellars, coal-bins, closets, attics, and pantries faced away from the sun.
That country whose people are autumn people, thinking only autumn thoughts. Whose people passing at night on the empty walks sound like rain. ...

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Dan Draper @dandraper.bsky.social · 14d

Love this! Breaking things down to address the minute detail of where mistakes are happening is so useful. Wish we had the time to do it more often! 😫

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Dale Chapman @dalechapman.bsky.social · 14d

Work in progress - identify the angle in the alternate segment
Inspired by my colleague Rushni whose Year 11s were struggling to do such a thing.

comments/questions/thoughts welcome

#MathsToday

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Miss Morris @morrismaths359.bsky.social · 15d

#Mathstoday
Year 10 found expressions for shaded areas.
Made this last year for an extension but it was nice spending a bit longer on it.

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mr potato @tweetpotato314.bsky.social · 19d

[at my second rodeo] listen up you ignorant sack of shit

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Jonathan Hall @studymaths.bsky.social · 22d

In #MathsToday I did this as a starter on estimation.

With the aim of getting pupils to consider which counters are the 'significant' ones.