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Fun with Grapher

July31

If you are on an Apple device, look for the app called Grapher under the Applications–>Utilities folder. Choose 3D and type in anything that you think will make an interesting graph. You can use the ^ key to make powers. You can also animate your graph to see its shape change. Very cool and very mathematical! […]

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What’s wrong with this Cold-19 Graph?

May14

The following graph was released today and, at first glance, seems to put New Zealand at the forefront of testing for COVID-19. However, there are some problems with it, giving our growing mathematicians an excellent object lesson in visual data. The graph, which uses data supplied by health agencies from around the world, has been […]

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And, for more Math fun, graph y=x to different powers!

February5
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Instant solutions at mathway.com

October17

Mathway boasts that it “provides students with the tools they need to understand and solve their math problems. With millions of users and billions of problems solved, Mathway is the #1 problem solving resource available for students, parents, and teachers.” What does H3 think? Yes, this is a useful problem-solving tool and the graphical functions […]

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Buying a car with the help of Math

July9
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Gold Increases by 300%!

February19

This gold chart (source: Kitco.com) appears to show a dramatic – over 300% – increase in the value of gold over a period of just 7 hours on February 15th, 2019.  Students learning Mathematics and Statistics must exercise their detective instincts when viewing data in graphical form and this is an excellent example. Of course, […]

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How we construct bar graphs in New Zealand

March28
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DESMOS – Your new best graphing friend!

May26

Desmos is a great online graphing tool and ideal for teaching and learning at all levels. It is intuitive and really versitile and highly recommended by H3 Maths as “Your new best graphing friend.” Give it a go!

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Really (un)impressive data!

July11

There is was, plain to see – a staggering jump in the price of gold recently (from the Kitco website), and a graph to prove it! But wait, dear mathematicians, and hang onto your investment dollars! Use your mathematical sleuth skills to check this graph out a bit more carefully. Yes, the graph does show […]

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Hmmm…

July7

Source: unknown (just as well?)  

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Largest number between o and 1 million which does not contain the ‘n’ is 88

 

Rotation SAT Problem: Answer: 4 (see: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FUHkTs-Ipfg)

 

Which number has its letters in alphabetical order? Answer: F O R T Y

Hidden Rabbit? Clue: check the trees

How long for the stadium to fill? 45 minutes.

Where are you? the North Pole

Prize Object Puzzle: If Sue does not know where the prize is in the first question, it can’t be under the square. She must have been told it is under another shape. Apply this same logic to Colin. It is then obvious that the prize cannot be under a yellow object. That helps Sue eliminate her yellow shapes. Got the idea?

Algebra Puzzle: Answer = 1

Popular Math Problems Answers: 1, 1

Number of tabs? According to Lifehacker, the ideal number of tabs you should have open is nine. Yes, a single digit. To some, this is like playing a piano and only using a fraction of the notes!

Worst Graph? Where to start. What a visual mess and even some of the lines merge and are impossible to follow. A graph is a visual display of data, with the goal to identify trends or patterns. This is a spider’s web of information which fails to show a clear pattern at all. Solution? Well, different colors would help, or why not group in two or three graphs where trends are similar?

Number of different nets to make a cube is eleven – see this link

Homework Puzzle; The total value of the counters is 486, so halve this to get 243. Now, arrange the counters to equal this amount twice.

The graph on the left (Coronavirus) is for a time period of 30 days, while the one on the right (SARS) is for 8 months! Very poor graphical comparison and hardly relevant, unless it is attempting to downplay the seriousness of the coronavirus?

10 x 9 x 8 + (7 + 6) x 5 x 4 x (3 + 2) x 1 = 2020

NCEA Level 2 Algebra Problem. Using the information given, the shaded area = 9, that is:
y(y-8) = 9 –> y.y – 8y – 9 =0
–> (y-9)(y+1) = 0, therefore y = 9 (can’t have a distance of – 1 for the other solution for y)
Using the top and bottom of the rectangle,
x = (y-8)(y+2) = (9-8)(9+2) = 11
but, the left side = (x-4) = 11-4 = 7, but rhs = y+? = 9+?, which is greater than the value of the opp. side??
[I think that the left had side was a mistake and should have read (x+4)?]

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