I am supposed to write about a teacher who has influenced me greatly and made me who I am today. That is difficult for a couple of reasons. Firstly, as a teacher, I look back and see how much the profession has altered since I was at school, and secondly, a lot of the teachers […]
263 sits in five different types of prime number: a balanced prime an irregular prime a Ramanujan prime a Chen prime and a safe prime. Balanced primes are primes where there are equal sized prime gaps above and below it. Other balanced primes are 5, 53, 157, 173, 211, 257 and 263. Irregular primes are […]
So, today is the 4th August 2016, which can be written as: 4/8/16 Or 22/23/24 Which I love!
This has nothing to do with today – which was mostly spent making spreadsheets for some assessments, alongside some of that teaching lark. I love the work of Matt Henderson, who posted this on his blog yesterday evening: A Reuleaux triangle is built from three circles. As it rolls, its height is always the radius of one […]
I am a fan of square numbers. Today is a totally square day, and it happens only once every few years. As I’m sure you know, a square number is arrived at by multiplying a number by its own self. So 2 times 2 is 4, and 3 times 3 is 9.4 and 9 are […]
In pieces. Pies are good. Icosahedrons are good. A cross between the two? That would be amazing. Find the instructions here.
I sat down to type this tonight and I realised that this is in real danger of quickly becoming a fitness blog. I really don’t want that. I began the year just writing and stumbled upon the idea of answering questions as I went. I felt that might have been a decent way to generate […]
Seventy days left of the year. It’s flying by now. Today was interesting. Much of what happened today I can’t write about as it involves relationships with colleagues. It was a frustrating morning though and I think that sums up a portion of it. I had been given the morning to work with staff on […]
Let’s begin with some maths. 1!+4!+5! = 145, that is (1) + (4x3x2x1) + (5x4x3x2x1) =145. This phenomenon makes it a factorion. There are only three other numbers that have this property: 1, 2 and 40585. Tonight we saw Blood Brothers at the Leeds Grand Theatre. We had seen it before on our trip to […]
I’ve spent the day and evening immersed in tests. Thrilling. Spending most of the day in silence isn’t something I’m used to being a teacher – a lot of my normal day is spent discussing all kinds of things and asking questions, of course! Over the past two days I’ve administered six different assessments. The […]