This is a little bit of a revelation for me. Forty days to go in 2013. 325 is the smallest number to be the sum of two squares in 3 different ways: 12 + 182 62 + 172 102 + 152 Today is another one that has absolutely flown by. As always, Thursdays are a half day of […]
For the first time in a while I enter a weekend with not a huge amount of things to get done. Which is a god job as we’re off to Morecambe tomorrow, and then other things are happening on Sunday. Today, however, was another good day at school. Things are very settled at the moment […]
I’ve really enjoyed today. It’s not often recently that I can say that – work is a hard slog at the moment, but today was just good. The morning involved working on the choose your own adventures that we began yesterday in PowerPoint, then a maths puzzle involving the placement of pylons in a landscape […]
150 is the sum of eight consecutive primes: 7 + 11 + 13 + 17 + 19 + 23 + 29 + 31. It’s not that interesting, but I love facts like that. 150 is an important number in the Bible as it is the last psalm. That’s not particularly mathsy but it adds significance […]
Today has flown by without any real incident. Work consisted of a Literacy lesson (building scanning and skimming skills), a Numeracy lesson (solving word problems and developing calculator skills), and then a trip down a ridiculous hill to a local church where an exhibition about bibles was being held. This could have gone one of […]
Today has been a usual day of work, where very little happened overall, followed by a staff meeting and then home to work on more maths assessments. Year 2 was the focus of tonight. It is roughly 80% complete now and I expect to be able to complete it tomorrow. Still have Years 3 to […]
I meant to write something deep, meaningful… profound even. But it really just isn’t in me at the moment. I have a couple of drafts that will appear eventually. But they’ll be less relevant to my life at that time. Me and December do not get on. The Christmas season for the year has well […]
It’s two A.M. I must be lonely… (to paraphrase a Matchbox Twenty song.) I have to be up in four hours’ time. I’m deciding whether to publish this or not after work tomorrow… if it’s here, I clearly thought I would. I’ve a feeling my brain is slowly grinding to a halt. It’s happening incredibly […]
Apparently, everybody knows a bloke called Dave, so UKTVG2 thought it perfectly suited the blokiness of the channel. They replaced a six syllable channel name with a one syllable one. But it’s stupid. It also leads to some interesting statements like: “I’ve been watching Oz and James on Dave” – which sounds like you’ve been […]
Well here I am back at uni. My first day after teaching has gone really well – kinda flew by though. Anyway, I love Blink-o-rama… Basically it’s pictures of (US) celebrities mid-blink… give it a look: Blink-o-rama