Recently, someone left my office at Newcastle University and a new person took their place, so we needed a new sign on our front door. I wanted to do something clever with it, but it needed to be instantly legible to lost supervisors trying to find their students. My first thought was that since there…
What is mathematics?
This morning on Twitter Tony Mann asked the question: “This morning’s class is “What is Mathematics?” Answers in a tweet please.” Answers were collected via the #MATH1103 hashtag. Some of the answers were what you might expect: patterns, abstraction, order. Stuart Ravn sent a series of tweets giving his views: Math is everything you can…
Shadow Pavilion by PLY Architecture
Shadow Pavilion by PLY Architecture:
Have you used maths in the news in school?
Later this year I am to give a session at a teachers conference on using maths in the news for enriching school maths lessons. In my session, I intend to go over some recent maths news. I would also like to give some real examples of teachers having used some news in class. Samuel Hansen…
Three Cubes Colliding by Ivan Morison and Heather Peak
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Card trick video from Christian Perfect
A while ago Christian Perfect suggested the monthly local Maths Jam organisers might write up what happens at Maths Jams to their blogs so others can get a feel for what goes on. I regard this as a good idea I haven’t got around to yet. Luckily, Christian has just made a video showing a…
Newcastle MathsJam December 2011 Recap
Amazingly, December’s MathsJam had a non-trivial attendance of six whole people. And not just any people! Puzzling heavyweight David Cushing had yet more Renaissance-era riddles to test us all, and the other regulars were in similarly bamboozling form. I balanced things out by failing to prepare anything or bringing anything to take notes on and…