Carnival of Maths #229 | cavmaths
Roll up, roll up, roll up and welcome to the two hundred and twenty ninth Carnival of Mathematics! 229 is a prime number, and that in itself is interesting. Its the “elder” of a set of …| cavmaths
Roll up, roll up, roll up and welcome to the two hundred and twenty ninth Carnival of Mathematics! 229 is a prime number, and that in itself is interesting. Its the “elder” of a set of …| cavmaths
While teaching non-right angled trig recently it occurred to me that when doing the questions myself, I don’t actually thing about the formula all that much. Particularly with the sine rule. Yet I still start the teaching of it using the formula heavily. It made me wonder if this was really all that necessary. Firstly […]| cavmaths
Recently I’ve noticed a bit of discourse around the idea of Degree Level Apprenticeships as a possible new route into teaching. I’ve seen some good discussion around this and I’m currently sitting with a fairly open mind as to how it might go. I’ve seen people express concerns that there will not be a way […]| cavmaths
Over the weekend I happened accross this loevely puzzle on twitter. It was tweeted out by Diego Rattaggi (@diegorattaggi) and I saved it to my ever growing folder of puzzles to try on my phone. When i had a bit of time spare I thought I would give it a go. Have you had a […]| cavmaths
Recently I gave some of my year 12 students some practice papers as homework to aid their revision. When they brought them back in one of them had literally copied to entire markscheme into to the answer paper, while another had watched a walk through and written up the answers with notes on how to do it next […]| cavmaths
Came across another nice puzzle from Mr Gordon (@MrGordonMaths): First thing I noticed was that it was a pythagorean triple. My initial thought was that there might be a solution involving circle theorems, but then I realised that as an area was given this might be the best route. As angle QPS IS 90, then […]| cavmaths
Earlier today I was discussing and thinking about football accumulators, and accumulators in general. In case you don’t know what one is here is a quick overview. You basically pick a set number of bets and put an initial stake on, then if your first bet wins the winnings and stake roll over to the […]| cavmaths
I’ve been looking through my saved puzzles again and I found this nice little one in the maths newsletter from Chris Smith (@aap03102): It’s a nice little question that took me some thinking about. First I considered the half squares with hypotenuse 2. As these are isoceles RATs, that means their side length is rt2 […]| cavmaths
Today I want to look at another puzzle I found on math walks (from Traci Jackson @traciteacher): I love these 1-9 puzzles, and thought I’d have have a crack. First I considered the 9, with the 1 gone already that means that the 9 must share a line with the 2 and the 3 to […]| cavmaths
Roll up, roll up, roll up. Come hither come all to the Carnival of Mathematics. This is the 224th Edition of the longest running Maths Carnival. For those of you who are unaware, a “blog carnival” …| cavmaths
