Posts Tagged ‘scary’
October 25, 2017
The Complaint: Everyone Hates Maths Anyway
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The Cause:
Students absorb maths fear and loathing from peers, siblings, parents and the culture. eg.
From the TwoFatDudes blog.
The Solution:
Invite interesting guest speakers to talk to students. Other subjects do this. Bring in a cool young ex-student and attitudes can change, fast.
Otherwise show them these videos. The first video especially is AWESOME and totally, totally COOL.
Cool Guys talk about Math:
Here are their blogs:
Patrick JMT
Maths stories about death, tragedy and comedy in maths
Tyler De Witt
On Scientific Notation
On Significant Figures and using significant figures this video has had 1 MILLION hits.
Paul Andersen Bozeman Channel
Structure and Function of the Brain
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September 13, 2017
The Complaint: Maths is really SCARY!………………
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The Cause:
Some students think maths is always right or wrong and they are scared of making mistakes.
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The Solution:
You are going to do maths with no right or wrong answers. You just start and see what results you get.
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Yeah! It’s a Dad Joke!
Whoa! Totally CRAZY! Skiing a HELIX.
It looks like a Fibonacci Spiral, but that is an illusion. Steps on a spiral staircase are always the same length!
NO! This is not your homework. No stunts.
Just show us where you see maths in the world.
Prime Numbers vs The Hackers!
Note: The last challenge involves guess work. Maybe, an intelligent guess, but, maybe, not.
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September 13, 2017
The Complaint: Maths is really SCARY!…………….
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The Cause:
Some students think maths is always right or wrong and they are scared of making mistakes.
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The Solution:
Conduct your own DAD JOKE survey. No right or wrong. Answers will vary from group to group.………………………………………………………………………………….
Topics:
Postive, negative integers, number line.
The Challenge
More Math Jokes for Mathy Folks here.
PLAIN TEXT Dad Joke Maths Survey Worksheet pdf UK & Australia
PLAIN TEXT Dad Joke Math Survey Worksheet pdf USA
Dad Joke List 1 pdf
Dad Joke List 2 pdf
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September 3, 2017
The Complaint: Maths is really SCARY!…………….
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The Cause:
Some students think maths is always right or wrong and they are scared of making mistakes.
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The Solution:
Go on a Maths Photo Scavenger Hunt. There is no right or wrong. Just see what maths you can find out there.
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The Challenge:………………………………………………………
Can you find the following maths out there somewhere and bring back photographic evidence?
Topics:
Multiple Topics
The Challenge
Maths Photo Scavenger Hunt Worksheet PDF
More interesting Maths Selfies here.
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July 17, 2017
METRIC UNITS below. USA UNITS here.
BEAR STATISTICS
Grizzly Bear
Weight: 250kg
Height: 250cm
Top Speed: 56kph = 16 m/sec
More bear stats here.
Brown Bear
Weight: 680kg
Height: 250cm
Top Speed: 35kph = 10m/s
More bear stats here.
Comparing these speeds to the fastest man on earth, Usain Bolt:
Usain Bolt:
Top speed: 243kph = 12m/s
So Usain Bolt could out run a Brown Bear but NOT a Grizzly!
Bears are NOT as dangerous as:
In fact more Americans die choking on their own vomit each year than a re killed by bears.
More death stats here.
But bears are very fast so Park Rangers recommend the following survival tactics:
More bear survival info here.
REF: Dog helps save hikers after grizzly chases them for 20 minutes here.
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