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 […]
November 5, 2017
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Comments Off on History of Time Keeping
Before clocks were invented, time was kept using different instruments to observe the sun passing through the meridian at noon (the meridian is an imaginary line running from the North to the South Pole). The earliest instruments used for timekeeping that we know of are sundials and water clocks. Sundials– (3500BC) A sundial is able to […]
November 5, 2017
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Comments Off on Protected: Psychology – Learning and Memory
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November 5, 2017
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Comments Off on Global Health Challenge 2017
The Global Health Challenge 2017 (GHC17) is a fantastic opportunity to work together to address local challenges. This year, I have had the privilege of working together with a group of students to address an issue in Dundee’s local community, and come up with some sort of solution to help other people be able to …
November 4, 2017
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Comments Off on Exploring Edinburgh!
Whilst Steph and I had Stephanie’s friend from America, Apshara, over for the week. We thought we should take a trip to the capital to show her a little more of Scotland. Perfect time for another Social Studies blog! *** When we arrived in Edinburgh, we decided to go to Princes’ Street Gardens and the …
November 4, 2017
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Comments Off on Can Maths be Fun?
Many people scrunch up their face or roll their eyes when they think of maths, many believe that it is boring. I reckon it does not have to be that way- maths can be fun! I believe that we as teachers need to liven up the idea of maths and bring in cross curricular […]
November 4, 2017
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Comments Off on Can Maths be Creative?
I personally believe that often in today’s world we can limit the idea of maths to calculations, equations and many hours of working things out. We don’t take time to consider just how complex and essential this subject is. Hom (2013) describes maths as “the science that deals with the logic of shape, quantity and […]
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 […]
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 […]
November 4, 2017
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Comments Off on The Pentatonic Scale is Everywhere
As I discovered on Thursday, maths and music have many links, far more than I had previously considered. Seeing myself as reasonably musical, I had not given much thought to linking music with maths and if I’m honest I didn’t know there was such a thing. As a group we were asked to reflect on […]
November 4, 2017
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Comments Off on Analogue Clocks: Pointless and Confusing?
Living in a digital world, I ask the question: do we need to teach pupils how to read an analogue clock in schools? Although most of us have converted to digital clocks in our online, digital world with our smartphones, computers and televisions; we cannot deny that our encounters with analogue clocks are not completely […]
November 3, 2017
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Comments Off on Poetry can be fun?
Last week in our languages module with Anna, we were learning about writing poetry. When I heard that we ourselves were going to be writing some poetry, I was dreading it. From my experiences in school, poetry was not in the slightest bit fun. It was all about analysing the poems and writing essays on […]
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 […]
November 3, 2017
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Comments Off on The Truth is; The Game Was Rigged From The Very Start
“The good news is that in every deck of fifty-two cards there are 2 598 960 possible hands. The bad news is that you are only going to be dealt one of them” Anthony Holden (no date) A famous saying goes, that one must “play the hand they are dealt” with in life. This is […]
November 3, 2017
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Comments Off on Maths and Art
In last week’s input with Anna we were looking into the relationship between maths and art. We looked at Mondrian, Fibonacci and the Golden Ratio – Phi. Piet Mondrian was a Dutch artist who focused on Pointillism and Cubist art. His art was very geometric and is seen a lot in modern day art. – https://www.guggenheim.org/artwork/artist/piet-mondrian?gclid=CjwKCAjwssvPBRBBEiwASFoVd_XWXluR5gKRvWAB9ZhvVXuoW08LlVXAJYz3SyyIHQROWYoqqD5VpBoCdMYQAvD_BwE […]
November 3, 2017
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Comments Off on Do animals understand numbers or numerosity?
CLEVER HANS Today in class I was proposed to the question, “Can animals count?”. If I’m honest, this is something I have never really thought about. I’ve never had a pet before so have never been heavily interested in animals, so this is something which had never crossed my mind. At first, I was 100% […]
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 […]
November 2, 2017
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Comments Off on Yan, Tan, Tethera
Number systems and place value was not something which I had thought about or realised to be so complex until now. When I was in school and learning how to count or about place value and systems, I understood it straight away and that was it. I never questioned the mathematics behind it or considered […]
November 2, 2017
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Comments Off on Horology – Importance of Time 🕑
Horology is defined by the art or science of measuring time, such as watchmaking. Horology is a complex process which is full of mathematical processes in order to succeed in creating an accurate watch. Ilan Vardi describes mathematics as language with the use of equations and formulas however what distinguishes it from other subjects is the […]
November 2, 2017
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Comments Off on Ciao, adios, we’re done.
(Before reading, please be aware that this post strongly discusses my views on western feminism. All views are my own- I completely appreciate if you don’t support them.) Boys,I could tell you that I love being a female. I could boast day and night to the apparently ‘strong’ species that you are, exclaiming that being … Continue reading “Ciao, adios, we’re done.”
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