Here is a fascinating site to find out about the Golden Ratio and the human face.
http://www.intmath.com/numbers/math-of-beauty.php
Don’t miss the flash application where you can fit a mask to some famous faces to see if their facial proportions match the golden ratio.
You will find the Golden Ratio appears not just in the human body, but in architechture, design nature, cosmology, photo composition, art and much more.
Here is an interesting info-graphic that shows which languages are spoken most throughout the world.
Can you design a bar chart or a pie chart to show this information?
How about carrying out a survey to find out which languages are spoken in your class/course or college? You will need to plan it carefully first, working out how to collect the data. Then analyse your data, putting it into tables. Finally present your data using graphs and charts in a format that will make people want to read it.
Download, print and cut out the triangles. Work with a friend to try and match all the questions with the correct answers and make a shape
If you are stuck you can download the solution here
Download, print and cut out the triangles. Work with a friend to try and match all the questions with the correct answers and make a shape
How many nurses could be employed with the money given in bonuses to RBS bankers? You can work it out here!
Download, print and cut out the triangles. Work with a friend to try and match all the questions with the correct answers and make a shape.
Download, print and cut out the triangles. Work with a friend to try and match all the questions with the correct answers and make a shape.
Download, print and cut out the triangles. Work with a friend to try and match all the questions with the correct answers and make a shape.
How many decimal places of pi do you know?
Download, print and cut out the triangles. Work with a friend to try and match all the questions with the correct answers and make a shape
Download, print and cut out the triangles. Work with a friend to try and match all the questions with the correct answers and make a shape.
Download, print and cut out the triangles. Work with a friend to try and match all the questions with the correct answers and make a shape.
Download, print and cut out the triangles. Work with a friend to try and match all the questions with the correct answers and make a shape.
Download, print and cut out the triangles. Work with a friend to try and match all the questions with the correct answer. Ideal for Esol students learning to count in English.
Click here to download this Level 2 Functional Maths worksheet, Don’t always believe what you read in the newspaper.
It concerns how much money you can save by spending less time in the shower.
Try this gap fill exercise on screen or in worksheet format.
Interesting news today that the NHS want to introduce standardised health charts to monitor patients pulse, temperature, blood pressure, breathing rate, level of consciousness, and oxygen saturation. Apparently each hospital currently has its own chart, leading to confusion when staff move between hospitals.
Here is some of the coverage.
If ever there was a good example of “Functional Maths”, this is it! Everyone should have a basic understanding of these charts.
Maths with Graham would like to be able to access the video on the learning portal which explains how to use this chart, but searches haven’t yet managed to find it. Please let me know if you have the link.
Here is an excellent video that shows how statistics have shaped our world. How they have been used to show smoking causes causes lung cancer, to translate languages and even to understand our feelings.
The Joy of Stats
According to Vimeo
“Documentary which takes viewers on a rollercoaster ride through the wonderful world of statistics to explore the remarkable power they have to change our understanding of the world, presented by superstar boffin Professor Hans Rosling, whose eye-opening, mind-expanding and funny online lectures have made him an international internet legend.”
