Happy Pi Day! In the UK, we write the date in the Day/Month/Year format, but our American cousins write the Month then the Day so, whilst we would write today’s date as 14.3.13, in America it is written as 3.14.13 or Pi Day as Pi (to two decimal places) is 3.14. In two years time […]
On Friday, after lessons, a pupil came to find me. I don’t teach him this year, but have done so previously and I know him to be particularly interested in the subject and we often chat about what he’s currently studying in maths. He sought me out for some help with a problem he had […]
… and measure again. As discussed in the last post, we live in the “Information Age”. With so much data available to us, its easy to drown in an information overload and so, more than ever, we need to think about how we display that data. Below is a short video – less than three […]
… a recent scientific study has shown that those that have the most birthdays tend to live the longest. (but those with fewer birthdays tend to be healthier and fitter) Of course it makes sense, but it also highlights the need to be careful, very careful, with statistical information. As a maths teacher, I am […]
Today is a palindrome. Look at today’s date: 31 1 13 Its the same forward as it is backwards. There’s quite a nice little investigation you can do with numbers: Take any 3 digit number – say 567. Reverse the digits -> 765 and add them together. Is the answer “interesting”? (In this case “interesting” […]