Bryn
@brynspiration.com
Maths and Applications of Maths teacher. Higher Apps guy. 'Bryn' rhymes with 'in'. Wrote the Leckie Higher Apps book and share stuff on applyingmaths.com
Finished reading: Call for the Dead by John le Carré 📚
September 17, 2026 at 8:49 AM
Finished reading: Call for the Dead by John le Carré 📚
Finished reading: The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami 📚
September 7, 2026 at 6:49 PM
Finished reading: The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami 📚
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Number crunching 🏴
ITE Maths teachers target: 250
Actual number recruited: 73, the worst in years
Maths vacancies right now, weeks into the school year: 16
What’s the plan?
ITE Maths teachers target: 250
Actual number recruited: 73, the worst in years
Maths vacancies right now, weeks into the school year: 16
What’s the plan?
August 27, 2026 at 7:01 PM
Number crunching 🏴
ITE Maths teachers target: 250
Actual number recruited: 73, the worst in years
Maths vacancies right now, weeks into the school year: 16
What’s the plan?
ITE Maths teachers target: 250
Actual number recruited: 73, the worst in years
Maths vacancies right now, weeks into the school year: 16
What’s the plan?
Number crunching 🏴
ITE Maths teachers target: 250
Actual number recruited: 73, the worst in years
Maths vacancies right now, weeks into the school year: 16
What’s the plan?
ITE Maths teachers target: 250
Actual number recruited: 73, the worst in years
Maths vacancies right now, weeks into the school year: 16
What’s the plan?
August 27, 2026 at 7:01 PM
Number crunching 🏴
ITE Maths teachers target: 250
Actual number recruited: 73, the worst in years
Maths vacancies right now, weeks into the school year: 16
What’s the plan?
ITE Maths teachers target: 250
Actual number recruited: 73, the worst in years
Maths vacancies right now, weeks into the school year: 16
What’s the plan?
Maths Sheep Play Sheep - a fun blog post from David Bulter. https://davidkbutler.xyz/2026/08/23/maths-sheep-play-sheep/
Maths Sheep Play Sheep
It’s Children’s Book Week in Australia, and so it’s a good time to write a little something about a project I did in honour of Book Week in 2023: a picture book called “Math…
davidkbutler.xyz
August 23, 2026 at 6:12 PM
Maths Sheep Play Sheep - a fun blog post from David Bulter. https://davidkbutler.xyz/2026/08/23/maths-sheep-play-sheep/
Reposted by Bryn
On the third anniversary of me starting to create Maths Sheep Play Sheep, a blog post about its creation, and the meaning and decisions behind every sheep. davidkbutler.xyz/2026/08/23/m... #MathSky
Maths Sheep Play Sheep
It’s Children’s Book Week in Australia, and so it’s a good time to write a little something about a project I did in honour of Book Week in 2023: a picture book called “Math…
davidkbutler.xyz
August 23, 2026 at 1:27 PM
On the third anniversary of me starting to create Maths Sheep Play Sheep, a blog post about its creation, and the meaning and decisions behind every sheep. davidkbutler.xyz/2026/08/23/m... #MathSky
Finished reading: Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency: Dirk Gently 1 by Douglas Adams 📚
August 21, 2026 at 4:07 PM
Finished reading: Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency: Dirk Gently 1 by Douglas Adams 📚
First day back with the students. This year’s opener: “What do I, and Olivia Rodrigo, have in common?”
Clicks button to reveal school values and classroom rules
“We both have expectations.”
Perfect groan to smile ratio, would use again.
Clicks button to reveal school values and classroom rules
“We both have expectations.”
Perfect groan to smile ratio, would use again.
August 13, 2026 at 8:33 PM
First day back with the students. This year’s opener: “What do I, and Olivia Rodrigo, have in common?”
Clicks button to reveal school values and classroom rules
“We both have expectations.”
Perfect groan to smile ratio, would use again.
Clicks button to reveal school values and classroom rules
“We both have expectations.”
Perfect groan to smile ratio, would use again.
Firat day back with the students. This year’s opener: “What do I, and Olivia Rodrigo, have in common?”
Clicks button to reveal school values and classroom rules
“We both have expectations.”
Perfect groan to smile ratio, would use again.
Clicks button to reveal school values and classroom rules
“We both have expectations.”
Perfect groan to smile ratio, would use again.
August 13, 2026 at 7:01 PM
Firat day back with the students. This year’s opener: “What do I, and Olivia Rodrigo, have in common?”
Clicks button to reveal school values and classroom rules
“We both have expectations.”
Perfect groan to smile ratio, would use again.
Clicks button to reveal school values and classroom rules
“We both have expectations.”
Perfect groan to smile ratio, would use again.
Reposted by Bryn
We learnt this week that functionally illiterate American workers earn as much as the average Brit.
There is not much schools can do about this.
We need other parts of govt to take responsibility.
substack.nomoremarking.com/p/schools-ar...
There is not much schools can do about this.
We need other parts of govt to take responsibility.
substack.nomoremarking.com/p/schools-ar...
August 9, 2026 at 7:06 AM
We learnt this week that functionally illiterate American workers earn as much as the average Brit.
There is not much schools can do about this.
We need other parts of govt to take responsibility.
substack.nomoremarking.com/p/schools-ar...
There is not much schools can do about this.
We need other parts of govt to take responsibility.
substack.nomoremarking.com/p/schools-ar...
Why some people mow a lawn better than others - great bit of data visualisation, and about travelling salesman. https://pudding.cool/2026/06/mow/
Why some people mow a lawn better than others
We analyzed 132,003 attempts to mow a virtual lawn efficiently.
pudding.cool
August 4, 2026 at 7:43 PM
Why some people mow a lawn better than others - great bit of data visualisation, and about travelling salesman. https://pudding.cool/2026/06/mow/
The best challenge on the UK government's vocational subject at 14 push, and food for thought for us in Scotland too.
I've weighed in on the great vocational education debate.
From what we can see of the govt plans, I think they will repeat mistakes of the past.
Also, we need to retire the phrase "parity of esteem". It's not helping.
substack.nomoremarking.com/p/the-proble...
From what we can see of the govt plans, I think they will repeat mistakes of the past.
Also, we need to retire the phrase "parity of esteem". It's not helping.
substack.nomoremarking.com/p/the-proble...
The problem with "parity of esteem"
Vocational education at age 14 is not the answer
substack.nomoremarking.com
August 3, 2026 at 10:12 AM
The best challenge on the UK government's vocational subject at 14 push, and food for thought for us in Scotland too.
Watched: The Odyssey 🍿
The Odyssey
Odysseus, the legendary King of Ithaca, embarks on a long and perilous journey home following the Trojan War. Throughout his voyage, he is forced to confront the whims of gods, mythological monsters, and trials that stretch both his cunning and his humanity to the breaking point.
www.themoviedb.org
July 30, 2026 at 7:43 AM
Watched: The Odyssey 🍿
Watched: The Last Viking 🍿
Very funny and a lot more gruesome than I expected.
Very funny and a lot more gruesome than I expected.
The Last Viking
After serving fourteen years for robbery, Anker is released from prison and reunites with his mentally ill brother Manfred, who alone knows where the stolen money is hidden but has forgotten its location, sending them on a journey to recover the loot and confront who they are.
www.themoviedb.org
July 29, 2026 at 4:31 PM
Watched: The Last Viking 🍿
Very funny and a lot more gruesome than I expected.
Very funny and a lot more gruesome than I expected.
Big news on technical education in England. As with all reforms, the two key questions are: what incentives are being created for schools, and do those incentives align with what's best for students?
July 28, 2026 at 10:57 AM
Big news on technical education in England. As with all reforms, the two key questions are: what incentives are being created for schools, and do those incentives align with what's best for students?
Finished reading: The Art of Uncertainty How to Navigate Chance, Ignorance, Risk and Luck by David Spiegelhalter 📚
I really rate this book - great subject knowledge for probability. It also reminds me of how interlinked Maths and Philosophy are.
I really rate this book - great subject knowledge for probability. It also reminds me of how interlinked Maths and Philosophy are.
Art of Uncertainty
micro.blog
July 27, 2026 at 7:05 PM
Finished reading: The Art of Uncertainty How to Navigate Chance, Ignorance, Risk and Luck by David Spiegelhalter 📚
I really rate this book - great subject knowledge for probability. It also reminds me of how interlinked Maths and Philosophy are.
I really rate this book - great subject knowledge for probability. It also reminds me of how interlinked Maths and Philosophy are.
Watched: Blue Heron 🍿
Blue Heron
In the late 1990s, a family of six settles into their new home on Vancouver Island, as internal dynamics are slowly revealed through the experiences of the youngest child, Sasha. Their fresh start is interrupted by the increasingly dangerous behavior of Jeremy, the family's oldest child.
www.themoviedb.org
July 26, 2026 at 7:00 PM
Watched: Blue Heron 🍿
Prediction: Burnham will call an early election: https://brynspiration.micro.blog/2026/07/24/prediction-burnham-will-call-an.html
Prediction: Burnham will call an early election.
brynspiration.micro.blog
July 24, 2026 at 8:40 AM
Prediction: Burnham will call an early election: https://brynspiration.micro.blog/2026/07/24/prediction-burnham-will-call-an.html
Reposted by Bryn
This is a wild coincidence
July 17, 2026 at 11:39 PM
This is a wild coincidence
Reposted by Bryn
Is Milli Vanilli 1000 Vanillis or 1/1000th of a Vanilli?
July 11, 2026 at 4:58 PM
Is Milli Vanilli 1000 Vanillis or 1/1000th of a Vanilli?