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Last week I was looking for an activity that provides opportunities to MYP year one students to face new problems, develop solving problem methods, and at the same time being suitable to generate possibilities to communicate ideas.
With this idea in mind I came into my class and gave the following problem to my students:
I’ve always been interested in to know about Zen buddhism, and for many years I looked for a book called “Zen in the art of Archery“, written by the german author Eugen Herrigel. The title of the book always seemed intriguing to me.
Well, last week I was lucky, found it in a bookshop and started reading it as soon as I came home
During my summer holidays I read some books at the beach. I usually take with me novels and Maths-related books.
This year selection included: “The razor’s edge” by Somerset Maugham, “Remains of the day” by Kazuo Ishiguro,”Taming the infinite” by Ian Stewart and “Mathematician’s delight” by W.W. Sawyer.
While Gabriel is rounding off his summer vacation (he’s based in BA!), I thought I’d just add to the Math blog with this interesting site I stumbled upon (!) today. Actually, it was recommended in a Diigo group I belong to called CR2.0-DigiSkills and it made me sit up and think about Facebook and the extraordinary success it has had, and the ease with which my own kids interact with each other and their friends and relatives.
Anyway, the site I looked at looks like Facebook and behaves like Facebook. It allows you to create an identity for, say, a Mathematician/Scientist/Famous person from history. And they can have ‘friends’ (who might be others from history); they can have a Wall with status updates, along with the ability for their friends to Like and Comment on these updates.
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Everyone at Triple A Learning wishes you a peaceful and merry Christmas period and a Happy New Year and we hope you will enjoy a relaxing vacation. We think you will enjoy this updated digital nativity story:
If someone would have told me a year ago, that I was going to have a Twitter account I’d have said ” Well I never !”.
However, I’ve just realized that it could be useful to follow some mathematicians or being updated on the latest development in different Maths websites .
crossing a bridge (from Flickr)
If you are one of the teachers who are lucky enough to teach Maths both in the MYP and the Diploma Programme, probably you will welcome the release of a document in the OCC (Online Curriculum Centre, http://occ.ibo.org).
While surfing on the web looking for some specific information about fractals, I read about a sad new for the World of Mathematics: Benoit Mandelbrot, the great polish born mathematician that developed the idea of what now we call Fractals, passed away on 14th of October.
In the obituary written for The guardian we can find some basic information about his life and achievements :http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2010/oct/17/benoit-mandelbrot-obituary.
Talking about Human Ingenuity…Can you recognize the faces of the following mathematicians?
From left to right they are Leonard Euler, Carl Gauss and Isaac Newton, amazing men who helped to build a huge amount of important mathematical concepts.
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