I miss my gorgeous Casper as well. One month without you. 💔😢

Just gaging interest (no promises and I would want it to be a free event which can be difficult to arrange for obvious reasons) - but to my beloved Brisbane-ites - would there be any interest in me having an event there to talk Where it all went wrong; the case against John Howard? 🩷

When a young woman is raped by two friends, her small town turns against her A local footy star and his mate are convicted of raping their friend. In the tiny town of Balmoral, where the footy club reigns, the town makes it clear whose story they believe.

Why don’t women come forward when they’ve been sexually assaulted? I grew up around these types of people, I grew up around people who’d always support hating on a girl over a boy.
They are VERY common attitudes in close communities.

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It has been exactly 2 week since we suddenly had to say goodbye to Casper. He was just 8 years old. Your pack helps me smile through my tears. 💔

A black and white cavoodle with a dinosaur toy

My heart is broken 💔. Rest well my beautiful puppy.

Shared with us from Sydney happening now. He had his hands up.

Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again.
#Pinks #ProudBlue

Frens, please meet Penny! Her owner passed away, so she’s a Lucky Pup now! We are keeping her through da huge snow storm dis weekend and den she goes to her regular foster home.

Penny is 9 years old and ready to find her furever home 🩷

You can apply fur Penny at:
luckypuprescuesc.com

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Gosh a few of these brought back memories
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Australia Day is such bullshit. NSW proclamation day at best. At worst a celebration of the crimes of colonisation.

If you have to acknowledge that the day is a source of pain for many, that’s a damn good sign it’s a shit day to have as your national day.

Dr. Gladys West, Mathematician Whose Work Made GPS Possible, Dies at 95 ALEXANDRIA, VA — Dr. Gladys West, the pioneering mathematician whose work laid the foundation for modern GPS technology, has died. She passed away

Dr. Gladys West, the pioneering mathematician whose work laid the foundation for modern GPS technology, has died. She was 95.

This is my go to introduction for Euler’s method. Unfortunately as each year goes by fewer and fewer students know of the movie 😞.

Why is a Labor Premier silencing a writer?  - The Shot For many Adelaideians, Adelaide Writers’ Week (AWW) is the highlight of their year. A glorious six days when the Pioneer...

Here's @instanterudite.bsky.social . "Why is a Labor Premier silencing a writer?"

(In case you're only familiar with her work on The Shot, Jo used to run the AWW.)

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Grass roots.
My @smh cartoon.

Exquisite observation made by a friend, that one of the websites where the most outrage has been expressed about my cartoon is the website owned by the guy who did the Nazi salute.

Great question. I’m a little picky about readability for students so would prefer “sketch the graph of y against x ‘given’ … ‘for’ values of t ….”

Massive contributions from George Hewitt and Lewis Young!

We don’t use a Casio at my school but the TI we use has a normal pdf command. It can be used to find the function value at a point when sketching a graph of the prob function. Not sure how often that would be necessary.

This is in Australia and when X is defined at the set up of the questio, before all ‘parts a, b’, then they cannot use that to represent any other random variable. Same if a function f(x) is defined then they must use another function name for transformed functions etc.

We would certainly penalise. X is defined with its parameters and part b is an entirely different distribution.

Our exams tend to be the same. Efficiency is part of the key to success in them but that comes at the cost of time to think.

Yep that would result in the worst sort of formula plugging without understanding.

I don’t know what ‘that formula’ is. Is it very confusing?

We use this, as a point of inflection is described as where there is a change in concavity or curvature from up to down or vice versa. I generally focus more on tangent position of above or below the curve.

Happy Anniversary. We also got married 28 years ago on the 22nd. A month after bushfires raged in Victoria. The earth around us was scorched but I remember the day being fun and full of love.

I gave a little (possibly embellished 😆) bio of Gauss today whilst teaching sequences and series. Makes the students roll their eyes but they laugh as well.

I used to over think it and lose sleep but as I have gained more experience I deal with it better. Try to identify where it went wrong - me, the students or other factors and how I can do it better in the next lesson.

Sorry - never going back there. I cannot in anyway support an organisation headed by someone so revolting.