Dan Draper

@dandraper.bsky.social

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Writer: flash; short stories; audio drama; having another crack at a novel. Maths teacher: mostly in the classroom; occasional freelance bits; some ITT roles with fancy job titles. danieldraper.uk

Screen grab from https://undergroundmathematics.org/calculus-meets-functions/slippery-slopes
Screen grab of task from https://undergroundmathematics.org/introducing-calculus/a-tangent-is
Photo of Teaching A Level Maths: Content and Pedagogy by Rob Southern and Susan Whitehouse.
Photo of a whiteboard showing solving simple trig equations via graphs. First section is only number of solutions, second is values.
Screen grab from the pre-order page 1/3: “Unleash the dark and delirious with this electrifying anthology of folk horror from some of Britain's most iconic working-class voices: A.K. Blakemore, Daniel Draper, Emma Glass, Mark Colbourne, Mark Stafford, Hollie Starling, Jenn Ashworth, Natasha Carthew, Salena Godden and Tom Benn.”
Cover for Bog People. The cover shows a person with a four-prong gardening fork wearing rustic formal clothes. Their head is a goat skull.
A picture of Audrey II from Little Shop of Horros that uncannily looks like a professional headshot a la LinkedIn.
View of Carsington Water in the sun with a cloudless sky.
A picture of a gravy boat on a sea of book pages, and the following text: THE NORTHERN GRAVY FICTION ANTHOLOGY – EDITED BY NICK JONES £10.00 “The Fiction in this collection crackles with emotional charge. There are moments in here that will snatch your breath, make you laugh, make your heart ache or your tears fall. Work that will keep you up at night, both afraid and deep in thought. It will stay with you, long after you finish it, begging to be read again and again.” – Nick Jones
A photo of a circle with literal angles drawn in it and a straight line with two half turns worth of angles on it.
A picture from a textbook showing two Venn diagram questions for pupils to fill with appropriate ratios. In the first one the two categories are ‘simplifies to 3:2’ and ‘has integer parts’, and the second has three categories: ‘one part of the ratio is 7’; ‘equivalent to 1:2’; and ‘has integer parts’.
Incredible aerobics championship dancing from that viral YouTube video years ago.
Cover of the book Monstrilio by Gerardo Sámano Córdova
Photo of a whiteboard with the question ‘How many decimal places does 0.72 to the power of ten have?’ And reasoning shown for 0.72 squared, then cubed, and then how each time we multiply by 0.72 there’ll be two more decimal places.
Picture of a car in a ring of salt with text saying ‘Fun Fact: self-driving cars can be trapped using a ring of salt. If laid out correctly, the car’s visual processing AI will interpret the ring as no entry markings on the roadway and just sit there like an idiot LMAO.
Side-by-side picture of a man putting on clown make-up on the left and being fully painted with a big ol’ clown wig on the right because I am, in fact, a clown.
Kim Richards telling Eileen Davidson “I’ve had enough of you, you beast.”