{"id":43670,"date":"2011-10-11T21:30:30","date_gmt":"2011-10-11T21:30:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mast.thomasjpitts.co.uk\/?p=211"},"modified":"2011-10-11T21:30:30","modified_gmt":"2011-10-11T21:30:30","slug":"study-block-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wordpress\/2011\/10\/11\/study-block-7\/","title":{"rendered":"Study Block 7"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A tricky one this.<\/p>\n

Have barely written much in quite a while. In fact, since I completed my first assignment – something I will post here once the course is over.<\/p>\n

We’re going back to geometry with study block 7. For me, shape and geometry is fascinating. I haven’t particularly studied this aspect of maths in a long while, but my degree’s dissertation was based around the\u00a0Fibonacci\u00a0sequence<\/a>, the golden ratio<\/a> and its appearance in art and nature.<\/p>\n

Absolutely wonderful stuff, with some complex maths.<\/p>\n

My recent fascination, a clear one given the theme of this site, are fractals<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Given\u00a04 shots of a fractal, can you order them from\u00a0least zoomed<\/strong>\u00a0in\u00a0to most zoomed<\/strong>\u00a0it? \u00a0The point is that this is\u00a0hard\u00a0<\/strong>to do. Fractals are objects which are\u00a0equally complex and look similar on all scales\u00a0<\/strong>– therefore it is inherently difficult to tell how zoomed in you are. If you looked over someone\u2019s shoulder, and saw them looking at a shot of the Mandelbrot set<\/a>, it is entirely possible that at their zoom-level the entire set would span\u00a0the size of the observable universe!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The above quote and image are from Matt Henderson’s maths and science blog<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Again, the maths is complex, literally, and not something I totally understand (that knowledge has somewhat left my mind). However, I feel that something like this would be a good thing to explore in the primary school setting. Not only are they incredibly beautiful, they can provide a stimulus for ordering exercises, they provide a new and exciting set of shapes to explore, they can make great displays.<\/p>\n

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Let’s expand:<\/p>\n