Introduction


Can each day be headlined by a word (or two) and represented by a single sentence?

Will they, in turn, weave together to form a tapestry of the year?

It may be more mundane than momentous, but it’s mine to share.

Thursday, 25 June 2015

Phone a Friend

Arriving for my scheduled three hour tutoring session this morning I was taken aback to find a learner not only punctual but also in attendance after an absence of five weeks or so, and for whom my prepared ninety minute lesson around pentominoes would be a little light in content; so I prefixed it with some relevant revision on perimeters and areas of rectangles, followed it up with an introduction to the simpler tetronimoes, which in turn gave me the bright idea of for once using his addiction to his mobile phone to my advantage by suggesting he download Tetris and play it for half an hour to familiarise himself with those five pesky four-squared shapes before  moving on to the planned lesson on the even peskier twelve five-squared pentominoes.

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