Jonathan Dunning
mayorofsimpleton.bsky.social
Jonathan Dunning
@mayorofsimpleton.bsky.social
I don’t know how to write a big hit song and of mathematics I want none.
And Year 7 were doing the same thing in the classroom below, which made me smile!
May 24, 2025 at 8:41 AM
Sev. I can’t say how much I love it.
March 29, 2025 at 8:01 PM
Any of the generalisation-for-beginners-type ones. Areas of trapeziums on isometric paper comes to mind.
March 2, 2025 at 8:35 PM
And obviously there were waffles and ice cream for breakfast.
January 24, 2025 at 8:50 PM
I think they might be slightly reformatted Dr Frost Maths ones, actually.
January 10, 2025 at 6:37 PM
Not for exam technique but it feels useful for the kids just to construct the concentric circles through the vertices. We could maybe do that next year when we split up that oversized Y10 block on similarity congruence and transformations. I’d like constructions built into the congruence part.
December 10, 2024 at 9:04 PM
Yup. Wiggles and blobs. Who could ask more of a graph?
December 7, 2024 at 7:21 PM
This was their favourite...
December 7, 2024 at 10:54 AM
You too, mentor!
November 29, 2024 at 5:39 PM
Axiom is great.
November 25, 2024 at 5:51 PM
There are some on that Chris McGrane book. I think Tim the Trainee has our copy at the mo.
November 23, 2024 at 6:28 PM
This is the one I do most often with the kids.

(And was also the first thing I used to do with trainees.)
November 23, 2024 at 11:21 AM
Strong agree. Also, private tutors who counsel against it should be struck off.
November 23, 2024 at 8:11 AM