November 19, 2017
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Comments Off on Liping Ma’s Profound Understanding of Fundamental Mathematics
As I write this blog, semester 1 of 2nd year is almost at its end. I get misty-eyed when I think about this model nearly being over as I have enjoyed it so much and learned things I would never have known about otherwise. Truly fascinating module. It’s nothing to do with complex equations or […] Continue reading
November 9, 2017
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Comments Off on The Winning Equation in Sport 🥇
In Richard’s lecture today we looked at the fundamental mathematics within sport. Before the lecture I knew there was a lot of maths within sports but I had never looked deeply into each part of a sport and how it’s applied to mathematics. Firstly in the lecture, Richard had us look at an old football score […] Continue reading
November 8, 2017
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Comments Off on ♪ Do Re Mi Fibonacci ♫
My whole life I’ve been musical. My passion started when my mum bought me a harmonica and a second hand keyboard. I fell involve with music and have played an instrument ever since I was 8 years old. I started with the keyboard then progressed to cello, guitar, singing and saxophone. I did grades in saxophone and managed […] Continue reading
November 7, 2017
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Comments Off on New Zealand to Hawaii in NO time at all 🌏
I was excited about todays lecture as in Richard’s powerpoint title it contained the word ‘time’. I have always wanted to learn and find out more about time and timezones including the international date line. Horology is the study of time and as humans we base our whole lives around this concept of ‘time’. Our […] Continue reading
November 5, 2017
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Comments Off on 🌻 The Fractal Nature Of Reality 🍀
I came out of this lecture completely mind blown at our world and what is produces naturally, we truly live in an extraordinary reality. Today we learnt about the Fibonacci sequence (the golden spiral) together with Phi (the golden ratio). In 1509 there was an Italian mathematician called Luna Pacioli who published Divina Proportione, which […] Continue reading
November 4, 2017
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Comments Off on When in doubt, change your mind!
In school we have all been faced with multiple choice questions, and our teachers tells us always look over your answers when you are done. But when you go back do you ever look at a question and think it could be some thing else? But what should you do? Do you change it? Do […] Continue reading
November 4, 2017
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Comments Off on Yan, Tan, Tethera…
I’m going to be honest I think most of us came out of this particular lecture with a sore head. Today Richard taught us about place value and the binary system. This module is called Discovering Mathematics for a reason as every input I come out as if I’ve dug up gold. There are lots […] Continue reading
November 3, 2017
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Comments Off on “Take A Chance On Me” 🎲
Is walking out of the casino with a handful of cash based on luck or is there another explanation, perhaps this player has figured out the games winning and losing percentages and which games have the best odds. The subject of gambling was explored in our Discovering Mathematics lecture today. We looked further into the […] Continue reading
November 2, 2017
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Comments Off on Maths, Creative? No Way! 🎨
Up until this point in my education I’ve always thought of maths as a subject full of equations, difficult strategies and complicated rules. Especially in higher maths at school is was a constant routine of go to class, be taught a new subject for half the lesson with vigorous note taking and then the second […] Continue reading
October 9, 2017
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Comments Off on 🐒 Can Animals Count? 🐜
This question was asked during our Discovering Mathematics lecture and created quite a debate/discussion on the subject of can animals really count, the same way as humans, or are they learning to ‘count’ in a different way? Before the lecture continued past the question I gave my opinion that animals can’t count like a humans […] Continue reading
