The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2015 annual report for this blog. Here’s an excerpt: A San Francisco cable car holds 60 people. This blog was viewed about 3,300 times in 2015. If it were a cable car, it would take about 55 trips to carry that many people. Click here to see the … Continue reading
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Where over half of the world’s exports are going in one elegant chart
Reminds me of curve stitching – the importance of visual depictions can never be underestimated.
Teaching is incomparable – don’t make the mistake of thinking it is harder
So someone who was at the top of their game as an aerospace engineer at NASA after 6 years has gone into teaching and thinks their former employment was far easier than being in a classroom environment. I wonder what their ex-colleagues made of the write-up. The engineer-come-teacher still regards their previous occupation with awe and … Continue reading
What are random walks?
Originally posted on Mocha Mathematics:
A shorter version of this post was published on The Conversation on 19th December 2013. His walk home might comprise random steps, but mathematics says he’ll find his way eventually. (David Blackwell) The sun as captured by NASA’s SDO mission – each particle of sunlight has undergone a remarkable journey.…
Ten Lessons From a Maker by David Hieatt, Hiut Denim Co.
Don’t sit there dreaming… you have to go out and do
Extra 3 hrs to School Day
A Tasc report for New York schools has produced its recommendations to justify up to 3 hours extra schooling per day (on top of the current 6.5 hours) to improve maths and offer a more holistic curriculum to help children from deprived and disadvantaged backgrounds. Not all of this is from teaching, but includes community input. … Continue reading
