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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.

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Love this ‘twenty five hundred thousand’. Makes such a nice link to when they do calculation and conversions from not quite standard form!
November 25, 2025 at 6:40 PM
Love these!
November 25, 2025 at 4:18 PM
How is it managing to be gross AND smug?!
November 23, 2025 at 12:53 PM
I love the idea of this, but I feel like it wouldn’t be a goer for us for loss of lesson time
November 19, 2025 at 7:53 PM
good for flagging kids not working outside of lessons (as in by week 2 you’ve handed in three late homeworks etc.) but the planning/organising is sending me round the hat rack 😫 3/3
November 19, 2025 at 7:15 PM
of time! This has meant it’s been a pain workload wise to organise. But I set written homework every lesson, check it’s been done (as in by eye not marking it) and then give them my worked solutions. They’re then expected to pick up any issues outside of lessons in hw club etc. Found it’s been 2/3
November 19, 2025 at 7:15 PM
This year I’ve gone in hard on small homework every single lesson. The idea is that we wean them off the support through the course because when we just expect them to be independent right off the bat we just get headaches - even setting anything where they could just copy answers was a waste 1/3
November 19, 2025 at 7:15 PM
I read Jane Eyre for the first time this year and loved it. I also love DH Lawrence’s Sons and Lovers (but Lady Chatterly’s Love is a steaming turd of a book).
November 19, 2025 at 9:18 AM
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November 16, 2025 at 9:25 PM
Was this Ilson? Because they’ve got plenty of room for that sushi bit I’ve never seen a single person at ever.
November 16, 2025 at 1:15 PM
This looks fantastic! 🙌😍
November 13, 2025 at 9:16 PM
Amazing! 😅
November 13, 2025 at 3:56 PM
It’s been very validating 😅
November 12, 2025 at 8:14 PM
Even then, if you have an answer, discussing multiple routes to get there is also highly effective mathematical talk that deepens knowledge of maths!
November 9, 2025 at 10:58 AM