BECK SEWART, 16 Dear Mr Brown or, as I know you, ‘TLMaths’, You don’t know me at all. I am not one of your students, or a dedicated watcher of your channel, or even a lone unread commenter on one of your many videos. I may be responsible for the addition of several days to the total watch time on your channel. However, I doubt that in these unprecedented times that this would be the biggest thing on your mind. But I feel like I know you very well. I have watched the way your classroom has changed, as posters came up and down and your whiteboard circled from dirty to clean and vice versa. I feel that I have enjoyed the full range of your Math Pun T-shirts, and I have been the victim of your unpausing but short lectures, hundreds of times. Looking at the numbers, it would appear that I have. Me and my closest friend found ourselves in the same situation as many back in March. Facing five months free from any responsibilities, but unable to do anything with that freedom. So we found solace by sitting down every morning in front of a webcam, pen and paper in hand, ready to conquer a year’s worth of knowledge with nothing but reckless abandonment. Surprisingly, we succeeded.
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