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Hellooooooooo Darlings,

Mathspig is going to the Aussie Open Tennis Semi-finals tonight.

Some quick maths.

Men’s and Women’s Singles Prize Money;

Win; $3,100,000 

Runner UP: $1,550,00

It cost me … ARGGHHHH! … $Aus250 a ticket. If they play for the average game time of a Grand Slam match of 1 1/2 hrs it will costing me $2.78 a minute or 1 1/2 cappuccinos a minute. 

If the game goes for 3 hrs (more common in finals) it will be costing me $1.39 a minute, but the winner gets $650,000 for playing in a semi-final and that means they earn – for 3 hrs – $7,222 a minute. Now that is a lot of cappuccinos. 

Of course, tennis stars need maths … to count all that loot!!!!!!!

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kissy kissy

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Mathspig

 

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Hello My Cherubs,

This week we are survivors. Sort of.

Lava flowing from the Kilauea volcano is threatening tiny town of Pahoa in Hawaii.

Can you out run a lava Flow? You have to do the maths.

Volcano Survivor 1: Kilauea Volcano, Hawaii, 2014

Volcano Survivor 2: Mauna Loa Volcano, Hawaii, 1950

Volcano Survivor 3: Mount Unzen, Japan, 1991.

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On your bike

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Cheerio

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Mathspig

 

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Hello Babies,

Randall Munroe is a pro web cartoonist, maths nut and maths guru who answers crazy hypothetical questions using maths. His website is xkcd.

His TED lecture is here.

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And his book What if? Can be found here.

Here are some of the questions Randall attacks:

When, if ever, will Facebook contain more profiles of dead people than of living ones?

Ans: It could be as early as 2065.

Could you get drunk from drinking a drunk person’s blood?

Ans: Not to be recommended.

At what speed would you have to drive for rain to shatter your windshield?

Ans: Mach 1 or really, really, fast.

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Mathspig loves this crazy maths. Here are some of the hypothetical questions from mathspig:

Can you kill your teacher with chocolate! 

Can you outrun a zombie?

In the REAPING in The Hunger Games Maths what is the chance that a brother and sister are both selected as tributes?

In The TWILIGHT series Edward is an ethical vampire (He only consumes animal blood), but how many Shih tzus would he need a day to stay alive?

Mass Murderer or Maths Teacher?

Don’t forget the Baa Graph Ha! Ha!

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And now Mathspig has been cruising in her Hogmobile working out how far a car can travel on human fat. You will find interesting calculations here, here and here.

Ooooooh! I’ve got the munchies. I better go and make some more DIY bio-fuel.

Cheerio

Mathspig 

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Hellooooooooo Darling,

So who will be my stunt double when they make the film of my exciting maths life. I’m thinking

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…Miss Piggy

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…Babe

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While I’m deciding you might enjoy some Stuntman Maths as well as Stuntwoman Maths and Stunt pig Maths:

1. STUNTMAN MATHS: Car Stunts

2. STUNTMAN MATHS: Jumping off a Building

3. STUNTMAN MATHS: Motorbike Jump

And if you are a film buff you should check out my 10 Movie Cliches Debunked with Maths posts:

1.You can duck bullets.

 

2.You can out run a fireball.

 

3. You can out run machine gun fire

 

4. If you are involved in a car chase, hijacking, explosion, volcanic eruption or alien invasion, you will not go into shock.

 

5. You can jump out of an airplane that is about to crash and catch the baddie who took the last parachute.

 

6. If the pilot dies the control tower can talk you down.

 

7. You can safely jump from a burning skyscraper/bridge/aircraft into water.

 

8. You can survive any amount of beating in a fight.

 

9. A single match or candle will light a room the size of a football stadium.

 

10 You can out run a lava flow

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Mauw Mauw

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Mathspig

 

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Hellooooooooo My Little Wallaroos,

Mathspig has been reading The Last Child in the Woods by Richard Louv.  He describes school today as a form of ‘passive incarceration’. Too many children live their life indoors exposed to the ‘one-way experience of television and other electronic media’. Many rarely, or never, experience nature or just digging for worms in the garden. And sometimes nature is just around the corner. 

Mathspig lives 10 km from the CBD in Melbourne, Australia. Aussies often joke about riding kangaroos to school or warn of Drop Bears (Koalas that kill tourists dropping from trees). It’s our Aussie sense of humour. Those jokes almost seemed real when these kangaroos turned up by the Yarra river below Mathspig’s house recently. They’re wild roos. I saw them at 9am one Sunday looking at all the joggers, dog-walkers and cyclists on the nearby bike track. They didn’t seem worried. Awesome. Or, maybe, roo-some.

So outdoors we go, mathpiggeies, to embrace nature and have some grand maths adventures:

Outdoor Maths Adventures: Grade 3 – 5

Outdoor Maths Adventures: Middle School

And don’t forget some Geometry Jokes.

Other outdoor maths adventures on this blog:

The shop is 50 Smoots on your left

Why not invent a new unit of length, make a string in, say, Smoots, and go outside and measure parts of the school.

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Hoo Roo

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Mathspig

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Hellooooooooo My Little Sweetpeas,

Put it down. Step back from the ch0colate box. Did you know chocolate can kill you? And it takes less than you think. Stop chewing and read on:

Death by Chocolate: The Maths

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How to kill your teacher with kindness! Do the maths.

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Death by Chocolate for DOGS

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Death by Chocolate for CATS

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 While we’re looking at spooky DEATH Statistics check out these posts:

 We’re All Gonna Die

or Why Death Rates are Over-Rated!

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A Comic Look at Death Statistics

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Can you die laughing?

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 Maybe, won’t die. Maybe, you will become a ZOMIE. No worries, we have that covered too.

Zombie Maths

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Bye-de-bye and watch your step

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Mathspig

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Hellooooooooo My Little Party Pigs,

‘Maths is booooooooring’

Middle school students often moan about maths.

Actually, quite often maths is boring because lessons are sooooooo predictable.  Chapter 1 is followed by …..Guess what? 

Chapter 2. And then Chapter 2 is followed by …… You get the picture.

The one way to kill boredom and get their attention is to SURPRISE THEM. 

Ask them weird questions. Do strange calculations. Find a ghost ship. Give them odd maths challenges. Have funny maths days. Throw a maths party. 

Here are some ways you can SURPRISE …. EVEN SHOCK them!

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Top 10 Funny Maths Videos

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10 Weird and Wacky Maths Projects

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10 Urban Maths Myths Busted

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10 Mentalist Maths Tricks

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The Hunger Games Maths

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Maths Cure for Wolverine

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And just to inspire you too here are some weird, funny, serious, ridiculous and fascinating quotes:

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10 Quirky Quotes for Maths Teachers

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Bye-de-bye

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Mathspig

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Hellooooooooo My Sweeties,

Last year was a yummy year. Mathspig statistics … Mathspig lervs statistics show:

The Louvre Museum has 8.5 million visitors per year. This blog was viewed about 170,000 times in 2013. If it were an exhibit at the Louvre Museum, it would take about 7 days for that many people to see it.

But some think you don’t need maths. This makes Mathspig soooooooo mad. Here is what she has to say, Sweeties:

3 Don’t-Mess-with-Mama Reasons Why You Need Maths today

Bye-de-bye

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Mathspig

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Helloooooo Little Mutants,

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This week I’m soooooooo excited about

Wolverine the movie

I just had to do lots of X-men maths.

Read on Mutants.

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Cheerio

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Porkerine

aka Mathspig

 

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Hello Sweet Peas,

This week we are busting Maths Myths. There are many Urban Myths involving maths.

Myths involving maths work because the number sounds sort of right.

eg. Drink 8 glasses of water a day.

Drink 64 fl oz or 1.89 litres of water a day  does NOT sound quite right, yet this is the same volume of water!!

Here is an Urban Myth involving maths from Mythbusters.

In 2009 (Episode 117) Grant, Tory, and Kari investigated the Myth that a giant 2m (7 ft) Lego ball rolling down a hill could smash a car.

They borrowed 1 million blocks and with all hands on deck built a 1,400 kg (3,000 pound) ball.

Did it smash the car?Nah! It fell to bits first.

Myth Busted.

But you can turn yourself into a Little Lego Character here.

There is a fabulous exercise for middle school maths with worksheets on how rumours spread @ 6 degrees of separation.

Now on with the Maths Myth Busting

Cheerio

Mathspig