Student Mathematical Art - Year 7 2016

Have you been enjoying Spirograph online?

Oli Bilston shared his beautiful work with me in class and then sent me the image. Do you have any you'd like to contribute to this page? Scroll to see more...

Oli Bilston 7D Wesley GW

Stephen Guerra 7D Wesley GW

Stephen Guerra 7D Wesley GW

Stephen Guerra 7D Wesley GW

Bec Campbell 7D Wesley GW

Landing a Rocket on a Comet. Happening in the next 12 hours...

Landing on the moon - done
Landing a robot on Mars - done

Landing on a comet is a little trickier. Why? What do you think?

Why are we trying to do it?

Find out here

Follow it live from the people at NASA right HERE

FINALLY! FLYING CARS

They have been talking about these forever. Many other things have come to be that were only crazy future ideas when I was a kid like...

THIS CRAZY DREAM CAME TRUE
Imagine if you could see the person you were calling on the phone and have a face to face conversation no matter where you were in the world. Hello Skype and some similar type face to face communication technology.

WE ARE STILL WAITING FOR:
We are still waiting for time travel (Alina make it happen!) but I heard the other day that the conjecture is travel into the past is impossible but other dimensions... why not?

Teleportation is being worked on by the Entanglement Generation, I kid you not.

RECENT HAPPENING
What has happened as far as dreams beginning to come true and THE FUTURE IS NOW type of stuff?

THE FLYING CAR - YAY and, quite frankly, about time.

Read about it here in The Guardian and WATCH THE VIDEO TOO



"AeroMobil flying car prototype 3 is ready 8 | wordlessTech." 2014. 30 Oct. 2014 <http://wordlesstech.com/2014/10/10/aeromobil-flying-car/aeromobil-flying-car-prototype-3-is-ready-8/>

Solar Power, Hexagons and a Moose

There has been a video of a moose lighting up a road as it crosses doing the rounds of social media recently. Today I clicked on it  and I was very impressed.  Two plucky people have invented amazing technology - solar panels that can be used as roads, pathways, outdoor areas shaped like hexagons.

If you are in MYP2 or you're a bee you know that the hexagon is part of making this technology strong.

It has won awards - check it out at indiegogo.com and in the video of one of their fans below.
Why isn't their government getting behind something like this? Great question.

I got behind it.

Mathematical Dance Moves - What's yours?

On the windows of Mathsland are some formulas (formulae) to dance moves - check them out. What's your signature move? How would you graph it?

In MYP3 and MYP5 we have looked at graphing and patterns (different ones). Learning their signature moves on the axes can help us to understand how to graph them but also what they are trying to tell us about the pattern they represent.

Here's my  "squared triple circle cubed undefined gradient dance"



Play around with the formulas in the Desmos Calculator and check out some of the graphs other people have made like the minion...

Here Come the MYP2 Coders!

Anda is first off the blocks with his two codes

A cool Spiral and something quite Disco (if you have epilepsy, Disco is not recommended because there is a lot of flashing).

Click on the links to see the fun.

Disco programming was developed initially by Tera, then Nom and then Anda took it on too. Excellent collaboration.

Anda's Spiral at code.org http://learn.code.org/sh/11921722

Do you want to learn to code - check out the  Hour of Code for lots of tutorials.

Stay tuned - next week all of MYP2s first programs will be live on the blog.

CODING - You should learn to do it.

MYP2 has begun their new unit on coding - computer programming.

The giants of programming and computing must have known that we were going to be doing this unit because they have put together an AWESOME site

code.org/

Below is the video we watched for you to enjoy. In this video you will see some of our high profile teachers.

As well as coding we will be enjoying some 'analogue' activities so that our MYP2s get to see how computers do all that magic inside.

We are starting small, just like Bill Gates did, and building from there.

The site has a wide range of tutorials from phone apps to computer science to first year college courses in programming. Once the MYP2s do the Beyond One Hour Computer Science course, they can take their independent learning in any direction they like.

Coding is a very cool area of mathematics.

MYP2 - please check your Managebac messages to sign up to our course.

If anyone else wants to join, please check out the amazing site and it's one hour introductions into many aspects of coding at code.org/learn

MYP3 Rock the First Ever PIADS CASINO

WOW - impressive work from the mathematicians in MYP3.

Two fun and profitable games were created for the amusement of students and teachers alike.  See below for a summary of the day. We hope to see you next year.

The Mathematics of Chance

The Mathematicians in MYP3 have recently held the first ever Casino at PIADS. 

MYP1, MYP2 and teachers joined us to "have a flutter" and try their luck with our PIADS Bucks. It was a fantastic mathematical experiment. 

The games made large profits - hundreds of Bucks for Bullseye and thousands of Bucks for Pop Mania. They made that money in only 30 minutes! 

How did they do it? The wonderful world of Mathematics, some clever psychology (to make customers feel like winners), visual art and design technology skills to make their games look great. Even if people felt like winners on the day, and many did, the games made the most money by far.  

Calculating probabilities, converting them to odds and then adjusting those odds to favour the house is how profit is made in casinos everywhere. They are rigged and the odds are never fair, but that's no secret. 

When you join MYP3 you can learn about the mathematics of chance and build your own casino.  If you can’t wait, ask an MYP3 to explain it to you.

Why does the house always win?  Mathematics.

Our Area of Interaction Focus was Health and Social Education.

• Looking after ourselves: Being aware of the differences between games of skill and games of chance. 
• Understanding ourselves: How games of chance make us feel. 
• Ourselves in the wider society: How gambling can affect society.

Our MYP3 students will never be fooled by games of chance. They understand how customers are manipulated into playing again and again and why some governments regulate gambling.

See you at the next casino - more games, longer opening times.

Nature's Shape - is it the HEXAGON?

In MYP2 on Loy Krathong day at school we had another look at nature's shape by watching another cool video from The Code from the BBC.

So many great questions come from this video.

Oh, we also learnt that waveboarders go beyond the normal times tables. Waveboarders know their 180 times tables because of the turns they make/take on their boards.  Very cool!

Maths and Fashion

If you are interested in fashion or architecture, this article sent by my sister has something for you.

Read about it here

Leading Architects Design Cool Doll Houses

Twenty famous architects designed doll houses help KIDS, a charity for children with physical and mental disabilities.

This post was inspired by Bpok, Kim and Dreem in MYP4. They are using their google time to develop their Sketchup skills and there is a budding architect amongst them.

From Triangular Worms to Strandbeesties

Check out these mathematical creatures that live on beaches. We started watching in MYP2 today, but I think students young and old (including teachers and parents) will be amazed.

Don't forget there are many subtitles you can choose from...

Bubble Artist - it's a real job

"The sphere is nature's most efficient shape"

In MYP2 we are asking ourselves "What is nature's shape?". We stopped to look at the sphere from the BBC series called The Code.

Ajarn Hugo shared some very cool stuff that has lots of mathematics to make it so...

please enjoy and click on the link Wave Garden

4 of 4 Surfer Quaid Birchell of Morrow Bay CA by Mike Baird
licensed under CC by A

"didn't realise it was going to be so hot" - building melts cars in London

One of my favourite articles of the week - so much mathematics in it. 

Tall Glass Building Melts parked cars  in London in the Guardian, but this next article is just crazy. The architect who designed the car melting buildings in London made the same mistake before, in Las Vegas!

Check out the building making it hot enough to fry eggs in the street.

Who are you (mathematically speaking)?

Your task is to create an infographic about yourself. Before you get started take a look at some examples and ask yourself:

What do I know?

What do I want to know?

Below you will find three examples of infographics created by students. 

Following the student examples are some infographics from the 

In ManageBac is your task and some more links for you to explore.

Student Infographic #1 - what do you know about this person now?

Student Infographic #3 - what do you know about this person now?

Student Infographic #3 - what do you know about this person now?

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http://www.joelertola.com/grfx/index.html

When Sea Levels Attack - from Information is Beautiful

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