November 22, 2016
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Society has shown an interest in animals and their ability to count and understand numbers for centuries. However, clear documentation of this only emerges around the early 1900’s. The curiosity began with well-known stallion ‘Clever Hans’, this information is encapsulated form Alex Bellos’s ‘Alex’s adventures in numberland’. Hans’s owner ‘Wilhelm van Osten’, who was a […] Continue reading
November 3, 2016
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On further reflection of numbers in football, I am going to attempt in using my skills as a football referee to explain some maths in football that even I hadn’t thought about. Something that is apparent when reviewing these numbers in football is that the preference of measurements has changed over time since football began, […] Continue reading
November 3, 2016
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On the 11th November 2016 the National football teams of England and Scotland meet at Wembley for a fundamental game in Scotland’s World Cup Qualifying campaign. In terms of discovery mathematics, we begin by looking at Scotland chances of winning the game. Currently it is 8/1 for Scotland to win, this means that if you […] Continue reading
