Graham Rees @grahamrees

teach.MathsNOW alumni, musician, designer, writer, public educator, recreational aviator, burner of candles. BA/BEd, BPsySc, MDesFutures. All views mine. Sydney Australia Joined October 2008

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Graham Rees @grahamrees

5 days ago

New research suggests Bon Jovi may be around 80% of the way there. Maybe more.

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5 days ago

I have discovered Fitzpatrick 1984. That’s it that’s the tweet. #mathematics #mathsteachers #ITeachMaths #EduAU

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I’m reading“Sea Harrier over the Falklands” by Sharkey Ward. He says the best way to recover from a spin was to “take your hands off the controls and let the aircraft sort itself out.” It occurs to me the same thing often works in relationships. Step back and let things be. YMMV.

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2 weeks ago

A poverty mentality won’t make you rich. It will just keep you thinking you’re poor.

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2 weeks ago

Cute moment in the staff meeting this morning. Someone mentioned how Mr Squiggle had been airing since the 1950s, when Mr Rees was watching it. And I don’t think they meant my dad.

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2 weeks ago

100 days until my firstborn weds. I’m ready and not ready, simultaneously.

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2 months ago

P(x) = 2x³ – 6x² – 8x +12. Find (α+2)(β+2)(γ+2). Your time starts…now. youtu.be/V8U4mZy4n-w

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2 months ago

The warning sign is not when others disagree with you. It's when they stop doing it.

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3 months ago

Money doesn’t solve every problem. Its absence, however, creates most of them.

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3 months ago

The fastest way to misery is to blame other people for your immaturity.

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3 months ago

I’ve led a pretty dull life but I've known people who haven’t. Apropos of today’s tweet, the month after I finished high school I travelled to Victoria for flight training. My instructor flew Spitfires in Burma during WWII and had confirmed kills. The calmest killing cucumber.

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3 months ago

I’ve just finished a degree and I’m keen for light reading. Some derring-do. “Running Deep”, a submarine commodore’s memoir, is gripping. Richard de Crespigny's “Fly!” is next. Yesterday Audible suggested “Stop screaming. I’m Scared Too,” a soldier’s story. The matrix has me.

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3 months ago

It’s crazy up the street. The barber is full so I can’t get a haircut. The bakery is spilling out the door so I can’t get a meat pie. I guess there’s nothing for it but to go to IGA, get myself a steak, go home and make it.

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3 months ago

Finished final assessment. Next stop, graduation. Again.

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3 months ago

You can’t always get what you want. To a large extent though the happiness of your life rests on whether you are grateful for what you have or complain about what you don’t. You can have very little and be grateful or a lot and be resentful. Choose gratitude every time.

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3 months ago

If your first step in helping someone build capacity is to deconstruct their ability to resist your help, you’re not building capacity, you’re appropriating it.

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4 months ago

One of my occasional students got lost this week. Another teacher helped him. Teacher: Who’s your teacher? Student. I don’t know, sir. T: What does he look like? S: He wears glasses and he tells jokes. T: Oh. He wears glasses and tells funny jokes? S: No, sir. Just jokes.

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Graham Rees @grahamrees

5 months ago

Y'all go Trumpet your xenophobia elsewhere please.

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5 months ago

This is your occasional reminder that inferring tone from an email is as sensible as looking at a set of train tracks and thinking you know which way the train went.