Glass Diamond

Quick, simple and quite effective. Today's Gratitude Item: Sports day. It didn't rain and it was nice not to have to teach classes today. I think our students had fun…

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Simple Sign

Another 'quick but effective' effort. Today's Gratitude Item: Avoiding particularly bad traffic this morning. A lot of our students (and staff) were very late and more than a little frustrated.

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Wound Tight

The spiral addiction strikes again! Today's Gratitude Item: My speed cube arrived in the mail today (it was ordered on Sunday). Said cube has been scrambled and successfully unscrambled. The…

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Warped wave

Sometimes it's quite stormy in a fractal world. Today's Gratitude Item: Being *mostly* ready for a presentation I need to give tomorrow. Hopefully it will go well...

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Circle Squared

Once again, geometric shapes are the order of the day. Today's Gratitude Item: Finding my *private* key for an exercise my students are doing on RSA encryption. Said key was…

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Curve Point

Another fractal that just works. Today's Gratitude Item: Finding a way to mark student work from Google Classroom without needing to change to 'edit' mode each time. It's still not…

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Pipe Flower

I know we've been here before but revisiting string flowers is always pleasant. Today's Gratitude Item: My current 8th grade class are doing really well. We had a successful lesson…

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String Flower Star

Somehow the ornate grey background works in this case. Today's Gratitude Item: An adorable message from one of my high fliers who got a question in a quiz wrong and…

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Bubble Beads

This effect was a big surprise and I have no idea how it happened. Today's Gratitude Item: My cunning plan for learning my new 8th Grader's names worked even better…

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Extreme Egg

Simple but effective. Today's Gratitude Item: A new edition of my favourite puzzle book is out! All too often it is those little things that can make one's day.

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