Graham Rees

teach.MathsNOW alumni, musician, designer, writer, public educator, recreational aviator, burner of candles. BA/BEd, BPsySc, MDesFutures. All views mine.

[Graham Rees @grahamrees]

I love the opimism with which I pack my bag at the end of the school day as if I'll be able to see the physio, buy groceries, make dinner, spend time with the family, train the juniors at karate, upload the assignment marks, write the references and redesign the exam all by 10pm.

[Graham Rees @grahamrees]

Ah, the old “too sick to work, too awake to sleep” dilemma. Aka “which pile should I start on first?” #teacherlife

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@mrgavinfuller Oh lawd 🤦‍♂️

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So I went to work on Friday and there were three mathematics teachers away and another one coughing her guts out.

I told a friend.

“That doesn’t add up,” he said.

[Graham Rees @grahamrees]

Courage and hubris are not the same things. They only appear to be so to the disaffected.

[Graham Rees @grahamrees]

Wishing you were able to solve other people’s problems is admirable.

Helping them solve their problems themselves is top tier.

Trying to solve them when they’re completely able to do it themselves and they keep asking you to mind your own business is a sign of mental illness.

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There are two ways to add 2 and 2 and get it wrong.

You can get 3.

Or you can get 4 when the noise in the zeitgeist is that 2 plus 2 is 5. That it's always been 5. Like, why would you say it wasn't 5?

This is the noise a culture makes when it's given in to the gaslighting.

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@matthras Bahahahaaa

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Racist people do not, in my experience, have any problem with being racist. They’re totally fine with it.

They have an enormous problem, however, with you saying they’re racist.

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@dmackay_18 @woolworths Can we do this at school between P2–P3 inclusive? ;)

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@thomas_no9 Oh. And a suspension 🙃

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How do you even get seven negative behaviour entries in a four period day? Asking for a friend 🤦‍♂️

[Graham Rees @grahamrees]

Manflu update: You watch Once Upon A Time in Hollywood and tear up at the thought of Sharon Tate not dying and sob uncontrollably when Jake Cahill is validated by a child actor.

[Graham Rees @grahamrees]

The unnerving thing about manflu is not the flu. It's the middle days when you've stopped getting worse but you're not yet better. The inbetweenness of being too exhausted to work but not tired enough to sleep. The twilight zone.

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@mrdanielyong What’s your take, sir?

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“If you pursue pleasure you’re not going to find pleasure; you’re going to find rehab.”

Word.

[Trevor Noah @Trevornoah]

The way we define happiness might be the problem.

[Graham Rees @grahamrees]

@matthras R. Shudder.

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"Can you put, like, an 𝘹 in the calculator, sir?" has to be one of the sadder questions you field during a Year 9 algebra exam.

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@z3019494 They like them almost as much as the teachers do, sir 🙂

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Working direct and indirect variation with Y11 Advanced students with thanks to the work of @z3019494

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@matthras I'm very here for jealousy-inspired mathematical outfits.