GIV: Math Strand, Feb 2013

Friday Evening

• Puzzle Sheet.
• This website is the one I mentioned on the SET handout and has considerably more detail, including more questions, all of the answers and some commentary on how the author has used them in teaching.
• Tantrix is, it seems, a much bigger deal than I ever realised. Play online here and read all about it. Looking at the history page, it seems that it was Julia Schwarz, a Tantrix world champion, who helped introduce the game to the UK at Greenwich Market and must have been the person who I was talking about in class.

Saturday Morning

Saturday afternoon

• Graphs and Infographics for discussion #1:
  • Empty Seats
  • Shrinking Doctor
  • Doctors' income
  • Republican candidates

• Discussion #2
  • Follow the State of the Union pdf link at the bottom of the page.
  • Also: NPR article on the SotU graphs, but don't look at this yet. You can look now!

• Visualisations for Discussion #3
  • Big Mac Index
  • horsemeat
  • Election map
  • NY Weather

Sunday Morning

• Mandelbrot Applet
• Yale resources on IFS. Go to the Java Applets and look for the box-counting dimension one.

Presentation

• Puzzles for Parents

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