This cool Youtube video has mathematics relevant for grade six and grade 11 courses right now.
For grade six - they can compare it with the doubling we did when we discussed ebola. They can also look at half of a half - multiplying a fraction by a fraction or as we say in mathsland the product of two fractions.
Grade 11 - this is exponential growth and decay simultaneously depending on how you view your noodles.
Stuff about Mathematics - this blog was set up for the Mathematicians at my school in Thailand. I migrated the contents when I left, so please excuse any images that didn't make the journey. They are bouncing around somewhere in the blogosphere. Image is from my travels in Argentina, 2013. The beautiful natural geometric patterns found in Humahuaca 2013
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Sunday, 15 February 2015
Tuesday, 2 September 2014
teeny and HUGE Numbers
In Diploma Mathematical Studies we are starting the course looking at the story of Number and how we communicate all sorts of things with different types of Numbers.
You are all probably familiar with Natural Numbers and Integers but there are also Rational, Real and Imaginary numbers. When society needs more from mathematics to push through and develop in some way we develop new systems to make that possible.
Number types tell the story of society and its complexity.
Check out these sites:
FSU (where my dad did his doctorate) and their famous Powers of ten
and this famous video - it's old but the numbers are relevant
We have had these types of numbers in this blog before. Please visit or revisit for your mathematical enjoyment about the scale of the universe(s).
CLICK right here
You are all probably familiar with Natural Numbers and Integers but there are also Rational, Real and Imaginary numbers. When society needs more from mathematics to push through and develop in some way we develop new systems to make that possible.
Number types tell the story of society and its complexity.
Check out these sites:
FSU (where my dad did his doctorate) and their famous Powers of ten
and this famous video - it's old but the numbers are relevant
We have had these types of numbers in this blog before. Please visit or revisit for your mathematical enjoyment about the scale of the universe(s).
CLICK right here
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