This exercise will critique – anonymously – teacher fashion.
Here are some staff photos from the 60s, 70s ( 2 pics), 80s and 90s. Has there been any improvement?
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Ask kids to write a list of the worst fashion styles of staff. They should then use the list to survey the class to see what they think of the staff fashion sense without naming names, of course. Draw a bar graph. Here are a few styles that could appear on the list. The idea is to be creative in the description.
eg. White Sox with Sandals
Terrifying Tie
Pretty Awful in Pink
Green Peace Project
Old Timer
Hippie Reject
Sports Shock Jock
Dr Who Look alike
Mad Professor Ensemble
The I-Survived-a-Tornado Look
Grunge Revisited
Then write 10 fashion tips for teachers to pin up on staff room.
Encourage the teachers to put on a fashion ashow. Some schools do. Here is
Here is the Swakeleys school fashion show for teachers. They could ham it up more, but the kids think it is fun.
Who would have thought, mathspigs, that there was so much maths in hair.
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Today’s post looks at the Majestic Moustache or the Manly Mo and moustache graphs.
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Here are Mathspig’s two favourite moustache graphs.
First, is the Moustache and the Decline of the British-Empire or 100-Year Itch @ TWC, which includes a pictorial record of the moustaches decline.
The second graph is from the American Mustache Institute* showing the decline in corporate reputation with the decline in the popularity of the mo with PR professionals.
THESE ARE HILARIOUS GRAPHS, but they are Gaga or Made Up Graphs.
How does Mathspig know this?
Because of the numbers. The Y-axis scale is missing or irrelevant to the graphs shown.
These graphs are a bit of fun, but graphs are used to sell you products and some graphs can be totally misleading.
Mathspig, promised you Manly Mo Maths. And there is Maths in MOs.
Nick Cave’s Mo is a Parabola.
John Travolta’s Mo is also a parabola.
The Village People all parabola MOs.
Captain Jack Sparrow’s
beard is ∏ !!!!
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THIS IS A TOM SELLECK FRACTAL.
Goodness me, it’s a Tom Selleck Eyebrow Mo Sierpinski Gasket
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MAKE YOUR OWN MANLY MO:
Not all MOs are real and Groucho Marx trade mark eyebrows & mo were painted on.
Why not get your own Manly Mo.
Or, mathspig teachers, get your class to draw ‘parabolas’ on their hands and if a member of staff has a mo invite him into the maths class then on the count of three show him the whole class of ‘parabolas’
*If you love that moustache talk here is an American Mustache Institute Interview:
Some hair graphs are based on science,measuring and plotting.
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This is a real graph involving real maths. It is a plot of hair regrowth VS time graph using a hair growth agent. There are scientists out there somewhere actually counting hairs per sq cm.
Many, many tables and graphs have been published leading up to and during the current global financial crisis. The GFC, as it is called. But mathspig wants students of all ages to know that they can be mislead, ripped off and/or lose their life savings if they cannot read graphs properly.Mathspig found the following graphs in full page ads in Good Weekend The Age 26th July 2008, Sunday LIfe The Sunday Age 3rd August 2008 and The Weekend Australian Magazine, The Australian 2-3rd August 2008.
Mathspig is not saying that AMP set out to mislead investors but it would be easy for anyone unfamiliar with graphs to jump to the wrong conclusion. Why? Have a look at the graph.
What’s the problem???? Have a look at the scale on the vertical or y-axis. it is not linear. In fact, it is logarithmic. It keeps doubling as you move up the y-axis. This compresses the graph dramatically at the top. The following graph is clearer. It is a linear graph representing another ASX Index this time the TOP 200, but it gives a much clearer picture of the the movement of share prices on the stockmarket in the US Sub-prime/oil crisis marked on the graph above. In fact, share prices dropped by nearly 50% from November 2007 to August 2008.
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