As Wimbledon got under way last Monday, data analysts are supporting the world’s top players. Their practice is widespread in elite tennis. Some players pay lucrative sums to specialist companies and the quest for any kind of edge is intense. But compared to other major sports such as baseball or football this has all happened relatively […]
YouTube channel DW Documentary has published a 25-minute program detailing the 175 year history of Zeiss, a name now synonymous with photography despite its origin story beginning well before cameras would become commonplace. The Zeiss brand came to life in 1846 when Carl Zeiss, a German craftsman, started producing handcrafted microscopes designed for scientific applications. […]
You gotta love Wonky Donkey Math – great, thought-provoking fun as classroom starters. When I was a young boy waiting at the barbershop for a haircut, I loved the magazines that included “Spot the Difference” cartoons. They kept my interest for ages. So, dear students (and this is an obvious one), what’s wrong with the […]
Today’s date, in New Zealand at least, is June 22, 2022. Most teachers write the date on the whiteboard, or have it visible for their students. Model for your students a desire to discover interesting mathematical facts around them. We can do this with dates, times, car number plates, phone numbers, etc. One person who […]
This is a ‘No Post’ today. Just to explain… I have two main blogs, a wife and 3 children and 5 grandchildren and my novel #2 to get published (when I find a keen agent). This is why my posts are not as regular as they might be. However, to the observant mathematician, you will […]
The concepts of reflection can be difficult to introduce to students. This Physics interactive may help. Click on the image to begin (note: an account is not needed):
A mathematical model that describes how cells change their shape during movement suggests that the movement is mainly driven by the contraction of the skeletal proteins, called “myosin.” The new model developed at Penn State can help researchers to better understand the various biological processes where cellular movement plays a key role and also could […]
Here’s a simple and useful exercise for a class warm-up. After using capital letters (M, A, T, H) and working out how each of these can be folded onto themselves to make lines of symmetry, find out which country has the flag with the most axes of symmetry? Of course, Japan’s is a circle which […]
