To Infinity and Beyond! It was part of our Year 7 lesson on using quotients (division) and why we get “Error” or “Undefined” when trying to divide any number by zero. Here is the explanation:
Along with the concept of Euclid’s “Outdoor Mathematics” and the open sharing of ideas at the Perimeter Institute (in the previous post), there is also TeacherTube – a community for sharing ideas and concepts with other teachers and students. There is nothing quite like the challenge of video to re-present ideas. Students who have to do […]
Euclid’s outdoor presentations are somewhat similar to modern day scientific and mathematical dialogue, where universities and institutes host “open” forums, such as this one at the opening of the Stephen Hawking Centre at The Perimeter Institute – a place in Canada where the frontiers of space are being explored by leading physicists. Free teacher resources […]
Yes, here it appears that Euclid (or a look alike) is showing off his new yellow iPad? Well before your iPhone and digital SLR the only way to capture events was to paint or sketch them. This is an extract from Raphael’s School of Athens painting and features the mathematician Euclid (famous for his Geometry […]
“What is the best temperature to have my room set to?” “I don’t know about you, but I set mine to room temperature and the corners to 90 degrees!”
The astronomer Galileo Galilei observed in 1623 that the entire universe “is written in the language of mathematics”, and indeed it is remarkable the extent to which science and society are governed by mathematical ideas. It is perhaps even more surprising that music, with all its passion and emotion, is also based upon mathematical relationships. […]
This article just in from the ScienceDaily (Apr. 12, 2012) The world often breaks down into numbers and regular patterns that form predictable cycles. And the sooner children can inherently grasp these patterns, the more confident and comfortable they will be with the world of math. University at Buffalo’s Graduate School of Education professor Ming […]
Download a copy of Graphmatica, a really powerful and small, yet intuitive graphing tool (for PC or Mac):
I would encourage you to make use of the excellent functions-site at Wolfram Research – e.g.
