Dan Draper
@dandraper.bsky.social
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
Maths teacher: mostly in the classroom; occasional freelance bits; some ITT roles with fancy job titles.
danieldraper.uk
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A friend of mine has just launched this website that I think is pretty great for generating quick starters for A-Level maths and he has started adding some questions for Further Maths too.
mrhardymaths.co.uk
#MathsToday #ALevelMaths
mrhardymaths.co.uk
#MathsToday #ALevelMaths
GCSE Maths – Do Now
mrhardymaths.co.uk
January 23, 2026 at 9:20 PM
A friend of mine has just launched this website that I think is pretty great for generating quick starters for A-Level maths and he has started adding some questions for Further Maths too.
mrhardymaths.co.uk
#MathsToday #ALevelMaths
mrhardymaths.co.uk
#MathsToday #ALevelMaths
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Why don't they keep AI focused on scientific & medical uses, to enhance human intelligence instead of trying to replace it and turning us into stupid lumps devoid of imagination, wondering & problem solving abilities?
January 21, 2026 at 2:06 PM
Why don't they keep AI focused on scientific & medical uses, to enhance human intelligence instead of trying to replace it and turning us into stupid lumps devoid of imagination, wondering & problem solving abilities?
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Probability with Y12. I really like this RiSP about independent events, and this great MathsPad activity to practise the different definitions. It felt like we covered a lot in today’s lesson! #ALevelMaths #MathsToday
January 21, 2026 at 9:11 PM
Probability with Y12. I really like this RiSP about independent events, and this great MathsPad activity to practise the different definitions. It felt like we covered a lot in today’s lesson! #ALevelMaths #MathsToday
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Used this in #MathsToday in an attempt to get all of my Y10 understanding composite functions (a few were struggling after I introduced it yesterday).
One pupil joked "they liked maths again" at the end of the lesson so I'll take that as a win!
One pupil joked "they liked maths again" at the end of the lesson so I'll take that as a win!
January 20, 2026 at 8:09 PM
Used this in #MathsToday in an attempt to get all of my Y10 understanding composite functions (a few were struggling after I introduced it yesterday).
One pupil joked "they liked maths again" at the end of the lesson so I'll take that as a win!
One pupil joked "they liked maths again" at the end of the lesson so I'll take that as a win!
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We are advertising for a lead practitioner (& we also have a maths teacher post we are advertising for too)
If you're interested to come and work in a beautiful part of the country with a team who love to talk about maths teaching then get in touch!
www.eteach.com/job/lead-pra...
If you're interested to come and work in a beautiful part of the country with a team who love to talk about maths teaching then get in touch!
www.eteach.com/job/lead-pra...
Teaching jobs and Recruitment - Eteach
The Eteach Group is an EdTech software and services company, dedicated to providing education recruitment solutions for teachers and support staff to connect directly with schools online and find the ...
www.eteach.com
January 19, 2026 at 8:19 PM
We are advertising for a lead practitioner (& we also have a maths teacher post we are advertising for too)
If you're interested to come and work in a beautiful part of the country with a team who love to talk about maths teaching then get in touch!
www.eteach.com/job/lead-pra...
If you're interested to come and work in a beautiful part of the country with a team who love to talk about maths teaching then get in touch!
www.eteach.com/job/lead-pra...
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do you guys hear that bell tolling? wonder who it’s for. it’s so loud lmao
January 10, 2026 at 3:30 PM
do you guys hear that bell tolling? wonder who it’s for. it’s so loud lmao
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When introducing the idea of Completing the Square, I find numerical examples in base ten can be a helpful stepping stone for pupils.
Bridging the gap between numbers and algebra.
Bridging the gap between numbers and algebra.
January 10, 2026 at 10:35 AM
When introducing the idea of Completing the Square, I find numerical examples in base ten can be a helpful stepping stone for pupils.
Bridging the gap between numbers and algebra.
Bridging the gap between numbers and algebra.
Spooky clockwork Hey Mickey is worth the license fee alone. #TheTraitors
January 7, 2026 at 8:40 PM
Spooky clockwork Hey Mickey is worth the license fee alone. #TheTraitors
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By the way, why not make your New Year’s resolution be to start sharing little things that went well in your maths lessons using #MathsToday?
Whenever I make a habit of this, it always makes me feel more positive about my job. It’s lovely to scroll through and see what everyone else is doing too.
Whenever I make a habit of this, it always makes me feel more positive about my job. It’s lovely to scroll through and see what everyone else is doing too.
Having some fun with area models with Y8. I love the bit where you go into negatives and it all still works! I often skip this step, but (as well as being a nice demo for negxneg=pos) it helps overcome their distrust at negative terms appearing as lengths/areas in algebraic models. #MathsToday
January 6, 2026 at 5:19 PM
By the way, why not make your New Year’s resolution be to start sharing little things that went well in your maths lessons using #MathsToday?
Whenever I make a habit of this, it always makes me feel more positive about my job. It’s lovely to scroll through and see what everyone else is doing too.
Whenever I make a habit of this, it always makes me feel more positive about my job. It’s lovely to scroll through and see what everyone else is doing too.
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Having some fun with area models with Y8. I love the bit where you go into negatives and it all still works! I often skip this step, but (as well as being a nice demo for negxneg=pos) it helps overcome their distrust at negative terms appearing as lengths/areas in algebraic models. #MathsToday
January 6, 2026 at 5:14 PM
Having some fun with area models with Y8. I love the bit where you go into negatives and it all still works! I often skip this step, but (as well as being a nice demo for negxneg=pos) it helps overcome their distrust at negative terms appearing as lengths/areas in algebraic models. #MathsToday
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January 6, 2026 at 12:25 PM
My friend’s youngest did Old MacDonald where on this farm he had a ‘Draper’ and the noise was the biggest wettest raspberry you’ve ever heard. Never in my life I have been so roasted. And by a 2 year old.
December 28, 2025 at 5:35 PM
My friend’s youngest did Old MacDonald where on this farm he had a ‘Draper’ and the noise was the biggest wettest raspberry you’ve ever heard. Never in my life I have been so roasted. And by a 2 year old.
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I like some Cormac books just fine— and lots of people I love, LOVE him — but I’m so bored by the “your art should drive you to suicide” romanticization. I want short stories, and novels, and art, that drove the artist to joyful exaltation.
Merry Christmas, friends! Here's Cormac McCarthy on novel writing:
"I'm not interested in writing short stories. Anything that doesn't take years of your life and drive you to suicide hardly seems worth doing."
"I'm not interested in writing short stories. Anything that doesn't take years of your life and drive you to suicide hardly seems worth doing."
December 27, 2025 at 2:38 PM
I like some Cormac books just fine— and lots of people I love, LOVE him — but I’m so bored by the “your art should drive you to suicide” romanticization. I want short stories, and novels, and art, that drove the artist to joyful exaltation.
Rewatching Hacks and got to the end of series 1 again where Deborah does impromptu crowd work at [redacted for spoilers]. It’s such an act of love, it makes me bawl my eyes out every time.
December 23, 2025 at 9:14 PM
Rewatching Hacks and got to the end of series 1 again where Deborah does impromptu crowd work at [redacted for spoilers]. It’s such an act of love, it makes me bawl my eyes out every time.
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Merry Christmas everyone.
Found this on FaceAche:
Found this on FaceAche:
December 23, 2025 at 5:50 PM
Merry Christmas everyone.
Found this on FaceAche:
Found this on FaceAche:
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The older I get, the more I think fiction (which I love) has damaged our ability to judge people. We assume intricate interiority, wheels within wheels, because that’s what drives good plots. The truth is that what someone says and does on the surface is usually exactly who they are.
December 22, 2025 at 4:51 PM
The older I get, the more I think fiction (which I love) has damaged our ability to judge people. We assume intricate interiority, wheels within wheels, because that’s what drives good plots. The truth is that what someone says and does on the surface is usually exactly who they are.
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I just made a few more of these equation puzzles. drive.google.com/file/d/1uEzw... #iteachmath #mtbos
December 17, 2025 at 10:00 PM
I just made a few more of these equation puzzles. drive.google.com/file/d/1uEzw... #iteachmath #mtbos
Wrote these for my yr12 pures over the weekend off the back of an assessment. They were struggling with making decisions about how to use information, so made everything revolve around two points. Also threw in some ‘find k’ vs ‘find in terms of k’. #MathsToday
December 15, 2025 at 4:22 PM
Wrote these for my yr12 pures over the weekend off the back of an assessment. They were struggling with making decisions about how to use information, so made everything revolve around two points. Also threw in some ‘find k’ vs ‘find in terms of k’. #MathsToday
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the monty hall problem will never confuse me because if i was there and he opened a door with a goat i'd just take my goat and go home
December 9, 2025 at 5:42 PM
the monty hall problem will never confuse me because if i was there and he opened a door with a goat i'd just take my goat and go home
For crying out loud
December 3, 2025 at 8:50 PM
For crying out loud
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S: It’s obvious. If you had a ruler and you enlarged it, the 90° won’t become larger, it will still stay as 90°.
Love it when a student uses a relational example to convince me!
#MathsToday
Love it when a student uses a relational example to convince me!
#MathsToday
December 1, 2025 at 6:01 PM
S: It’s obvious. If you had a ruler and you enlarged it, the 90° won’t become larger, it will still stay as 90°.
Love it when a student uses a relational example to convince me!
#MathsToday
Love it when a student uses a relational example to convince me!
#MathsToday
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My Further Maths class are struggling with proof by induction series summations -- I've put together a backwards faded task.
Not written up solutions but available to download as a pdf and editable .pptx here :
mrchapmanmaths.wordpress.com/2025/12/01/p...
Not written up solutions but available to download as a pdf and editable .pptx here :
mrchapmanmaths.wordpress.com/2025/12/01/p...
December 1, 2025 at 2:17 PM
My Further Maths class are struggling with proof by induction series summations -- I've put together a backwards faded task.
Not written up solutions but available to download as a pdf and editable .pptx here :
mrchapmanmaths.wordpress.com/2025/12/01/p...
Not written up solutions but available to download as a pdf and editable .pptx here :
mrchapmanmaths.wordpress.com/2025/12/01/p...
Bog People now has one of those little orange best seller flags on it on Amazon as it’s at number 1 across a few categories. 🙌
Bog People, the anthology I’m in that came out in October, has had a review in The Guardian. It’d make a dead good Christmas present - you could even give it to someone else.
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/n...
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/n...
Bog People: A Working-Class Anthology of Folk Horror review – dark tales with a sting
This collection of macabre stories set across England explores class, hierarchy and the enduring nature of inequality
www.theguardian.com
December 1, 2025 at 11:35 AM
Bog People now has one of those little orange best seller flags on it on Amazon as it’s at number 1 across a few categories. 🙌
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No. If you want to buddy up to big tech do it with your own people. Leave the kids I'm responsible for alone.
The government recently invited schools to become 'edtech testbeds'. Kristy Evers explains what they are, and how they can be run successfully for everyone involved
https://schoolsweek.co.uk/phillipson-should-look-to-nordics-to-help-guide-edtech-testbeds/
https://schoolsweek.co.uk/phillipson-should-look-to-nordics-to-help-guide-edtech-testbeds/
November 29, 2025 at 7:59 AM
No. If you want to buddy up to big tech do it with your own people. Leave the kids I'm responsible for alone.
Bog People, the anthology I’m in that came out in October, has had a review in The Guardian. It’d make a dead good Christmas present - you could even give it to someone else.
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/n...
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/n...
Bog People: A Working-Class Anthology of Folk Horror review – dark tales with a sting
This collection of macabre stories set across England explores class, hierarchy and the enduring nature of inequality
www.theguardian.com
November 28, 2025 at 5:43 PM
Bog People, the anthology I’m in that came out in October, has had a review in The Guardian. It’d make a dead good Christmas present - you could even give it to someone else.
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/n...
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/n...