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Dani Hosford
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Maths Teacher (16-18), unionist, activist, examiner for Edexcel, OCR MEI & AQA. A Level Maths resource producer (TLMaths: Textbook co-author). NEU District Sec, post-16 national council and workplace rep. Views my own. She/her
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It's a dystopian art deco. The artwork that came with the game is framed and on the wall, as well as characters from the game. Mustard walls though so it's quite statement.
I'm fine with all other rooms, but bathrooms. And annoyingly I've got 4 of them 🤦‍♀️

I themed one up as a boardgame though 🤣
It took me months to choose tiles for my bathroom. So uninteresting. The bathroom still isn't done over a year later
Do you work in a 6th Form College (under red book conditions)? Are you in the NEU (if not please join us!)

If so
Vote ACCEPT on pay
Vote REJECT on conditions

That way we can protect our sector for now and the future

#6FC #NEU
Government continues to underfund education and add to the retention crisis
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We’re into week two of the ballot, time to get back to basics.

Why vote? Because your voice is the only way to change what’s happening in our sector:
📉 Falling pay
⚠️ Rising insecurity
💬 Broken national agreements

Every vote counts.
Vote YES. Post your ballot.

#WeAreTheUniversity
One day. My youngest kid is way ahead in maths with little effort and currently HATES maths because it's my subject.

My eldest believes that I have good methods but only because I published a book. That was a lot of effort to get his approval.
Spent far too many hours playing around with applications of De Moivres theorem this week.

But the good news is that I've prepared 8 pages and worked solutions for the *TLMaths The A-Level Further Maths Core Pure Textbook Part 2*

We really need to think about sensible names for books in future
I'm going to see if I can finally getting round to using the NEAB papers i revised with
In #MathsToday (actually Friday) I gave my year 12 students a question from 1961 which I found in book my colleague found in a charity shop.

They were loving it. Plus I was loving the discussion on how one would solve it using numerical methods without a calculator.
Been off sick a couple of days which is always tricky.

Came back to find this on one of my side boards. Got to love my students
Busy week ahead. I'm about halfway teaching a numerical methods unit for the first time, and it's been fun!

Focus finally switching to writing a textbook...
Tbh it's all about tornado springs.
I mean I have... but I'm not that experienced
Hope you feel better soon!
Really proud of my NEU colleagues being out yesterday.
Pretty standard for modern books to make up exam questions, you'll not find them anymore due to copyright. And having written on an international book, the author is left to decide what an exam style Q is sometimes without even access to papers!
Nice! I enjoyed that some of them started muttering 'quadratic formula' as they realised.
Sadly I was short on time as this was the lesson where the kids got brave enough to ask all the questions about the book and TLMaths
Spending the morning writing questions on Midordinate rule and it feels a bit like I'm finally getting into the academic year again.

Asked, how do we find time to write a book and teach full time?

Turns out it's my hobby.
I walked past your room having just wiped this off my board, saw you did it and it made me laugh.

Great minds...
Today I did my 2nd year 1 A level lesson for the first time in a few years. I was torn on whether to move on or pause to do questions, & found myself doing the latter because it turns out I like our textbook 🤣

I wonder if they'll get sick of it. I haven't taught like this for 7 years!

#MathsToday
I voted in the NEU election, have you?
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Just a reminder that if you are about to start teaching #ALevelMaths, this book is available from the Mathematical Association @mathematicala.bsky.social online shop. In my completely unbiased opinion, it's really quite useful.
It's good to be enrolling students again.

Don't forget the discount for August if you're recommending our book!
We’ve got a 10% discount on the A-Level Maths textbook until 31st August - feel free to share! @danihosford.bsky.social #ALevelMaths