It is very good at communicating the scale of the sun and the distance between planets.
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
Thursday, 6 March 2014
Pixels and the Scale of our Solar System
Check out this very cool If the Moon were the Size of a Pixel site, by Josh Worth.
It is very good at communicating the scale of the sun and the distance between planets.
It is very good at communicating the scale of the sun and the distance between planets.
Tuesday, 4 March 2014
Coordinate Practice - Learning from Mistakes
Ever struggled with plotting co-ordinates? (x, y)
On printed maps they use LETTERS with numbers help people locate things.
What can you find in F6?
In maths, science, Google maps [what is found at location (8.0502489, 98.3523413)] and other subjects that use graphs like humanities, you can't use the same system of letters and numbers. There are always two numbers and you must remember the order. That's the reason coordinates are also called ordered pairs, because the order is important. (3, 7) is not the same position as (7, 3).
There's "through the door and up the stairs" to help or play these two games and learn by making mistakes.
Try Billy the Bug and the Whack a Mole game
Billy only has positive numbers.
Monday, 3 March 2014
MYP2 Coders Online
Hi there - in MYP2 we have started to write our own programs. Some are even investigating the code of other programs online too.
This is where we will publish our code
This is where we will publish our code
Friday, 14 February 2014
Happy Valentine's Day
Good Morning!
Send your love and kindness with some mathematics. So sweet.
Check out some Math-O-Grams here...
mathograms at desmos
Send your love and kindness with some mathematics. So sweet.
Check out some Math-O-Grams here...
mathograms at desmos
Friday, 7 February 2014
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.
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.
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.
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| Anda's Spiral at code.org http://learn.code.org/sh/11921722 |
Stay tuned - next week all of MYP2s first programs will be live on the blog.
Wednesday, 29 January 2014
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/
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
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
Saturday, 25 January 2014
Synchronisation or Synchronization depending on your point of view, it's all pretty cool
Lots of people are posting a video about a murmuration of starlings on social networks. I came across this video and others many years ago and I wish to see it at a large scale one day.
For more collective noun names for animals that are as cool as a murmuration of starlings and a murder of crows check this out. It's about naming a group of animals, so technically they are mathematical terms. You can't be a called a group without counting to check if there are more than one of something present.
What's your favourite?
Do you do the same thing in your mother tongue?
On the TEDtalk page of our mathematics blog is a video about synchronisation in every day occurrences. I think you will enjoy it. Steven Stogatz and his talk on "How things in nature tend to sync up" should be at the top of the blog page.
For more collective noun names for animals that are as cool as a murmuration of starlings and a murder of crows check this out. It's about naming a group of animals, so technically they are mathematical terms. You can't be a called a group without counting to check if there are more than one of something present.
What's your favourite?
Do you do the same thing in your mother tongue?
On the TEDtalk page of our mathematics blog is a video about synchronisation in every day occurrences. I think you will enjoy it. Steven Stogatz and his talk on "How things in nature tend to sync up" should be at the top of the blog page.
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