How to Use a Spreadsheet to Batch-Upload Events to Your Calendar
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The other day I posted...
One of my favourite things I've discovered this year is using a spreadsheet
to batch-add things to my calendar. Such a timesaver!...
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2020/07/14
The Maths of Pointless
How often do we come up against people who are convinced that mathematics is pointless? TV game show Pointless requires contestants to obtain the lowest score to win against their opponents. Plus magazine discusses the maths behind this idea in two articles. The first looks at luck and unluckiness in TV game shows (with reference to Pointless); the second looks at some of the more general mathematical ideas related to Pointless specifically.
2020/07/13
What is a Black Hole?
Over at Plus Magazine, this interview discusses what black holes are and how to describe them mathematically.
2020/07/12
What's the point of... Geometry?
A poster suggesting some of the uses of geometry.
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2020/07/11
What's the point of... Exponentials?
A poster introducing some of the uses for exponential functions.
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2020/07/10
What's the point of... Distributions?
A poster introducing some of the uses for statistical distributions.
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2020/07/09
What's the point of... Differentiation?
A poster presenting some of the uses of differentiation.
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2020/07/08
What’s the point of... the Binomial Theorem?
A poster presenting some of the uses of the Binomial Theorem.
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2020/07/07
What's the Point of... Algebra?
A poster presenting just a handful of uses of algebra.
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2020/07/06
What’s the point – Aerial Photography
Free printable posters discussing some of the mathematics represented in a photograph of a street performer.
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2020/07/05
Mathstonbury
Some maths teaching activities based on Glastonbury! This is a lot more contrived than much of the stuff I try to link to on here, but having been part a festival committee many moons ago the general idea of some of these is close to bits of the reality.
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