Archive for March, 2019
Measurement Factoid
DYK (Did you know) – that a typical acre (0.40 hectares) of soil contains 400kg of earthworms, 1000kg of fungi, 680kg of bacteria and 400kg of insects.
Machine Learning – More Mathemagic!
“When your bank calls to ask about a suspiciously large purchase made on your credit card at a strange time, it’s unlikely that a kindly member of staff has personally been combing through your account. Instead, it’s more likely that a machine has learned what sort of behaviours to associate with criminal activity – and […]
Powerful Interactive Tools for Learning
Check out the helpful list of six interactive tools for helping students engage with their Mathematics: Six Tools To Create Interactive Learning Content On Your Blog
Math is the Best Way to Make Sense of the World
When Rebecca Goldin spoke to a recent class of incoming freshmen at George Mason University, she relayed a disheartening statistic: According to a recent study, 36 percent of college students don’t significantly improve in critical thinking during their four-year tenure. “These students had trouble distinguishing fact from opinion, and cause from correlation,” Goldin explained. She […]
Shapes
Have you ever wondered why we put a round pizza into a square box and cut it into triangles? Don’t worry – most of us never think about it. But here is the exploration – check out what other shapes pizzas come in and find the most economic design.
Wow – that’s a heap of tweets!
Six thousand tweets are sent every second, which corresponds to five hundred million tweets a day. Every sixty seconds, 510,000 comments are posted on Facebook. Add the 1.7 billion websites on the internet and the information exchanged on social media sites such as WhatsApp (one billion users a month), WeChat (697 million users a month), […]
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One of many great Math posters available from redbubble:
DNA Revisited – Mathematical Proof of Divinity?
A single cell and the DNA that causes it to function is millions of times more intricate than anything man has created. So, is it mathematically possible for us to not be created by a higher power? For illustration purposes, let’s take a 200 page book. Could the cover, the paper, the ink and the […]