365, Maths
Day 129: All About 129
129 is a fabulous number. It is one of my favourites. For a start, it is the sum of the first ten prime numbers: 2, 3, 5, 7, 11, 13, 17, 19, 23, 29. I know this because the sum of the first nine is 100 – a fact that not many people know I would […]
365, Maths, Work
Day 123: The Lucas Sequence And Getting On With Life
I’m not a fan of the number 123. It’s a Lucas number – a number sequence similar to Fibonacci‘s (where the previous two numbers are added to make the next). Fibonacci’s sequence begins: 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8… The Lucas sequence begins 2, 1, 3, 4, 7, 11, 18, 29, 47, 76, 123… like Fibonacci’s sequence, […]
365, Kit the Cat, Maths, Photographs
Day 95: A Mathsy Observation
Today is the 5th of April 2013. It’s a rare-ish moment in time, where a nice pattern is created. It’s also fairly rare that the trick works for both Americans and us Brits! I resent the fact that they get to celebrate Pi day on the 14th of March as they write it 3/14 whereas we notate […]
365, Maths, Work
Day 44: Midweek Mathsness
Today has been fairly ordinary. Snow fell, but that’s becoming old news. Can’t remember many times when we have had so many distinct instances of snow. The remainder of a maths assessment was administered, marked, spreadsheeted and analysed. This was the 2011 SAT paper, the last one I took children through at my previous school. […]
365, Maths
Day 38: Rotational Symmetry
Today my brain was stuck in rotational symmetry mode, spotting it everywhere. A few years ago I stumbled upon hub caps on cars and their general properties of rotational symmetry (if you ignore the air nozzle and central logos…) These are good for demonstrating how a pattern can be laid over itself to create intricate […]
365, Maths, Work
Day 25: A Questionnaire, A Graze & An Anniversary
Another day out of class for me. Becoming silly. This one was to have time to discuss with children their feelings about maths. It was hugely entertaining and very enlightening. Highlights include the quote, “Maths makes your brain clever,” and how so many children realised that being good at maths meant they had a better […]
Maths, Personal
I Have A Published Article. In A Magazine.
A personal milestone has been reached. In last week’s Times Educational Supplement (TES), 10th August, I had an article published. I had written it a little while ago about the summer term in schools and how the hard work we put in as teachers is finally rewarded. Here is a link to my article. I’m […]
Linkage, Maths
Voronoi Tiling
As most of you may or may not know, I love maths. I recently discovered Matt Henderson’s site: blog.matthen.com, and love his posts. As he says: I post original stuff about maths, space, computational linguistics and other things that I like. This blog is meant to be accessible andinteresting to people of all backgrounds. Now, for a lot of his posts, you don’t need to […]