November 13, 2017
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Comments Off on Solution to Gambling Problems? 🎲
I love a good night out to the Casino; throwing money i don’t have, on a risky bet with nothing but high hopes of a win. Its an amazing feeling walking away from any game in the casino with a profit; Roulette however, is especially dramatic to come away with a win. This is due to […] Continue reading
November 13, 2017
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Comments Off on Maths in Sport ⚽️
Science and maths are beginning to appear more and more within sport games. Especially, the worlds most popular sport, football. Football is such a competitive sport and thousands of people rely on this as a career. The money factor of football increases the significant value and seriousness of the sport. Going from a range of manager’s jobs, professionals wages to […] Continue reading
November 12, 2017
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Comments Off on Bakers Dozens and Pre-Heated Ovens
Why is mathematics important? As teachers this is a question that we are often faced with. Many children have developed a negative attitude towards maths and therefore see it as irrelevant or boring. This belief often continues throughout adulthood leading them to believe that the maths they learn at school holds no benefit. However, it […] Continue reading
November 11, 2017
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Comments Off on Maths, statistics, studying medicine in Dundee……..
After a fantastic lecture from Dr. Ellie Horthersall about maths, statistics and medicine in Dundee I felt inspired to write a blog post and look further into the statistics of the public health sector. Ellie trained as a doctor and now lectures at the University of Dundee as well as working in the pulic health sector […] Continue reading
November 11, 2017
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Comments Off on Music – how many beats in a bar……..Maths
Maths and music – how do theserelate? – the first question I asked when going to the lecture. This threw me, but I was very interested to learn why maths and music related to each other. I do not play a musical instrument myself but I enjoy listening to music. A fantastic quote highlighted by […] Continue reading
November 11, 2017
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Comments Off on Maths in Time, Computing and Gaming
Before this lecture, I had never really considered the link between maths, time, computing and gaming. Whilst I have always known that time obviously requires maths, I hadn’t thought much about what life was like before mechanical clocks. Before clocks existed, many people relied on nature to grasp the concept of the passing of time. […] Continue reading
November 11, 2017
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Comments Off on The History of Time
Time. Something that we use every day of our lives. How could we possibly live without it? Everything we do is based on time, when we wake up; when we eat; when we go to work; when we sleep; when we catch the bus. But have you ever stopped and thought to yourself about the […] Continue reading
November 9, 2017
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Comments Off on Gambling- More than Just ‘Luck’?
Gambling has never been something that has appealed to me or that I’ve taken time to consider. To me, it has always just seemed like you’re pretty much snookered and are just going to lose money most of the time, unless you’re lucky. I have, however, considered the idea of chance and probability which wasn’t […] Continue reading
November 9, 2017
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Comments Off on Maths in Music
As someone who does not consider themselves musical, I hadn’t really put much thought into how maths is needed in music. I love listening to music and find it a great way to relieve stress whilst belting out a song! However, I studied music in school and absolutely hated it. I would dread walking into […] Continue reading
November 9, 2017
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Comments Off on Maths causes major happiness!
There’s a link between music, maths and our emotions. How can this be and why do major chords in songs make us happy? This is what I am going to explore in this blog post! The links between maths and music: beats (the value of each note) timings rhythm string numbers if you are changing […] Continue reading
November 9, 2017
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Comments Off on Maths in Medicine
I have always known that there must be some level of mathematics behind medicine and health care, however, I did not realise just quite how important it is in the world of medicine. As the daughter of a nurse, friends of medical students and someone who considered nursing as a career, I have a basic […] Continue reading
November 9, 2017
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Comments Off on Type 1 diabetes, maths and me
Maths is my life. And no, this isn’t me saying that I love maths, sitting myself down to do Pythagoras equations or algebra every day. What I really mean by this is: Type 1 diabetes. Rewind back exactly three years. After weeks of a vigorous cycle of drinking>peeing> constant sleeping and in the end, fainting, I finally went to see my GP to get blood taken to find out what […] Continue reading
November 8, 2017
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Comments Off on Maths in Sport Workshop
During the Maths in Sport workshop, we looked at the factors that make up a football league table. Our task was to redesign the league table from 1888/89 to match a modern day premier league table. Both tables featured the results from the 132 matches played, the wins, draws, losses, goals for, goals against and […] Continue reading
November 8, 2017
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Comments Off on Maths and Art
There are many aspects of art which relate to maths and this was explained in an input from Anna Robb. The part which captured my interest straight away was how Fibonacci affects so many different things in nature and other places. I taught the Fibonacci sequence at my school placement in first year when we were […] Continue reading
November 8, 2017
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Comments Off on Maths in Sport
As preparation for our Maths in Sport input, we were asked to consider the mathematics used in a certain sport. I chose field hockey as I played it for several years when I was younger. I had never really considered that maths would have a part to play in field hockey and simply just thought […] Continue reading
November 8, 2017
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Comments Off on Discovering Maths in Sport
Discovering Maths in Sport As part of my journey in discovering mathematics, I have become aware of the fact that maths really is everywhere. So far, we have touched on maths in art, stories, music, computing, gambling and sport. In particular I’ve enjoyed looking at these aspects from a very open perspective, questioning the mathematical […] Continue reading
November 8, 2017
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Comments Off on Teaching math
After the input about Intriguing maths I decided to consider the theory behind teaching of math. During the input, we explored Boalers research into the teaching of mathematics within two different settings. Within the first setting the children were taught with the traditional set methods and procedures much like that of the 5-14 curriculum where […] Continue reading
November 8, 2017
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Comments Off on Mathematics in Sport
When I was younger, I tried my hand at near enough every sport which was on offer. I did swimming, netball, hockey, lacrosse, basketball, enjoy-a-ball, golf and ballroom and line dancing. I started most of these when I was in primary school, however, I did carry a few of them through to high school. Unfortunately, […] Continue reading
November 8, 2017
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Comments Off on Maths Anxiety
Throughout my school life I had always just accepted that I was more talented in the area of languages than I was in maths. It wasn’t that I couldn’t do maths, it was simply that I felt more confident and comfortable in other school subjects. The above is one of the reasons why I jumped […] Continue reading
November 8, 2017
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Comments Off on Maths Anxiety
Mathematics is something I have always felt very confident with throughout primary school. This confidence continued with me to high school however as the maths became harder and harder, I found myself struggling and starting to doubt my abilities. When exams started approaching, the focus was on trying to learn all of the different formulas […] Continue reading
