Changing the Subject
Up for free use is the following powerpoint, designed for middle grade Mathematicians, called “Changing the Subject” (Algebra basics). Download, enjoy and share. Changing the subject
Up for free use is the following powerpoint, designed for middle grade Mathematicians, called “Changing the Subject” (Algebra basics). Download, enjoy and share. Changing the subject
In a letter to his wife in March 1901, pioneering French painter Claude Monet lamented the bad weather that prevented him from working, as well as another conspicuous impediment to his creativity. “Everything is as good as dead, no train, no smoke, no boat, nothing to excite the inspiration a little,” he wrote. Monet, now celebrated […]
What’s the biggest number you can think of? When I was a child, it’s the kind of question we’d ask each other in the school playground. Someone would say something hopelessly naïve like “a billion billion billion”, only to be outstripped by a peer who knew about trillions, squillions or kajillions (it didn’t matter if […]
Dan Bernasconi, Head of Design at Emirates Team New Zealand, explains the significant role mathematics plays in sailing, boat design, and the America’s Cup. Click on the image for more info:
It’s hard enough doing the maths on your grocery bill. Inflation. Cost of living. Record-high food prices. Adding the environmental costs, like carbon emissions, can be enough to make a shopper go cross-eyed. Thank goodness someone’s done the arithmetic for us – on milk at least. Paul Callister is a New Zealand-based economist and a […]
Throughout human history the Moon has been an inextricable, ghostly presence above the Earth. Its gentle gravitational tug sets the rhythm of the tides, while its pale light illuminates the nocturnal nuptials of many species. Entire civilisations have set their calendars by it as it has waxed and waned, and some animals – such as […]
Over the past century, the quest to describe the geometry of space has become a major project in theoretical physics, with experts from Albert Einstein onwards attempting to explain all the fundamental forces of nature as byproducts of the shape of space itself. While on the local level we are trained to think of space […]