Nikola Tesla thought he could create a map showing all the multiplication patterns. Here it is: I love this and will be sharing it immediately with my children! Well, in the morning anyway.
Just so you know, the title is the answer to yesterday’s question. All was ok. Not great but ok. I have learnt that I need to think less and rely more on my instincts when teaching. That is a big step as I over-think pretty much everything. Most things. Still, plenty of good points came […]
Geeky maths thing over with first, 233 is the middle of a triplet of sexy primes. Boiling this down to its constituent parts; a prime number is any (natural or counting – whole) number greater than 1 that has no positive divisors other than 1 and itself. [1 is itself and so doesn’t apply before you start]. a […]
The final few weeks of term are here. It has been an interesting year so far. I’ve done huge amounts in school – it’s almost hard to remember everything. But so far it’s all been based around maths, twitter and ICT; my roles have developed a lot in those three areas. Maths has seen me […]
Today, I received this tweet: @thomasjpitts Explain. RT @uberfacts: If you take your age,multiply it by 7, then multiply by 1443 the product repeats your age 3 times. — alastair whitelaw (@alastairRP) May 21, 2013 So, what is the maths behind this trick? I quite quickly saw that my age produced 303030 (7 x 30 […]
I’ve spent the day and evening immersed in tests. Thrilling. Spending most of the day in silence isn’t something I’m used to being a teacher – a lot of my normal day is spent discussing all kinds of things and asking questions, of course! Over the past two days I’ve administered six different assessments. The […]
After yesterday’s fairly busy day, most of my time was spent faffing on some kind of electronic device or other. Since I’ve been helping Mrs Pitts re-establish her iTunes library – in preparation for her birthday present – I’ve become increasingly jealous of the fact that she has been sorting out all the artwork for […]
Thursday’s are generally one of my favourite days of the week – particularly now that my PPA (Planning, Preparation and Assessment) time has been moved to that afternoon. However, this afternoon was spent at a Maths meeting discussing children‘s work – clearly children I’ve never met. It was a reasonably useful time. I don’t quite […]