November 8, 2017
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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 6, 2017
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Previously, it hadn’t occurred to me about maths in sports. If I was playing a sport, my main aim and line of thought would be to try and score, or win, along with using some tactics. Therefore, today’s workshop about maths in sports really opened up my eyes to see how the fundamentals of mathematics […] Continue reading
November 24, 2015
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Maths and football would not necessarily be two things you would put together but through the Discovering Mathematics module its become apparent that mathematics is everywhere. Liping Ma (1999) suggests that connectedness is one of the four properties of the teaching and learning of Fundamental Mathematics which led me to believe that if the teaching […] Continue reading
