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 Posted by: Lois Lindemann on: February 14th, 2010  Posted in: Everything Tags for this post: Maths | Mr TLC.  2 comments - more welcome!I don’t really do Valentine’s Day. To say Mr TLC dislikes it would be putting it rather mildly, so to be honest, it’s just not worth the hassle. I changed my mind today though, when Peter Rowlett tweeted a link to a Möbius Valentine’s card. (Yes, I am more than mildly obsessed with Möbius [...] Posted by: Lois Lindemann on: January 9th, 2010 Posted in: Everything Tags for this post: Food | Maths. 5 comments - more welcome!You know you’ve become a geek when you buy bagels, not because you have a desperate urge to eat them, but because you want to try this. Sadly, I failed. My shop-bought bagels were a tad dry and powdery. As a result they disintegrated. Then again, maybe it was just my lack of skill. [...] Posted by: Lois Lindemann on: April 1st, 2009 Posted in: Uncategorized Tags for this post: Maths | Random Musings. One comment so far - more welcome!I spent today dating, American style. Why? Because 4 01 2009 is just so more interesting than plain old April Fool’s Day. 4012009 is in fact a perfect square, something I found far more interesting than anyone else, but fear not, I didn’t let that stop me from telling, oh, just about everyone. For [...] Posted by: Lois Lindemann on: March 10th, 2009 Posted in: Uncategorized Tags for this post: Maths | Random Musings | The Job. One comment so far - more welcome!This morning, by way of a little light relief after the rigours of their GCSE exam yesterday, I set my Y9 group the task of researching pi and Pi Day in order to make some posters for display. They made some brilliant posters. My favourite was the one from which I discovered that ‘Pi [...] Posted by: Lois Lindemann on: July 9th, 2008 Posted in: Uncategorized Tags for this post: Maths. Leave a commentYou may never be too old to rock ‘n’ roll, but it seems that different rules apply in my chosen profession. Posted by: Lois Lindemann on: July 7th, 2008 Posted in: Uncategorized Tags for this post: Maths | Random Musings. 2 comments - more welcome!How was Everest’s height measured before Hilary [sic] and Tenzing conquered it? Daily Mirror reader M Fielder, from Whitstable I can’t quite get over that phrase “before Hillary and Tenzing conquered it.” Does M Fielder think that Hillary and Tenzing climbed up to the summit holding one end of a giant tape measure? Proof, [...] Posted by: Lois Lindemann on: May 29th, 2008 Posted in: Uncategorized Tags for this post: Maths | Random Musings. 3 comments - more welcome!from graphjam.com Oooh, they nicked my joke! Posted by: Lois Lindemann on: May 24th, 2008 Posted in: Uncategorized Tags for this post: Maths | Random Musings. One comment so far - more welcome!(from the rather splendid graphjam) Did you know that there are also three types of maths teacher? (The ones that can count, and the ones that can’t.) Posted by: Lois Lindemann on: March 5th, 2008 Posted in: Uncategorized Tags for this post: Maths | The Job. Leave a commentToday is World Maths Day. Actually, it is a little more complicated than that, depending on where in the world you are, some part of today and maybe a bit of tomorrow is World Maths Day. So what is it? In my case it is the most insane lunchtime I have ever known: a [...] Posted by: Lois Lindemann on: January 23rd, 2008 Posted in: Uncategorized Tags for this post: Food | Maths | My Life | The Job. 2 comments - more welcome!According to the American Pie Council, January 23rd is National Pie Day, on which date the eating of pies and “Random Acts of Pieness” are encouraged. I am not generally in favour of the National This, That or the Other Days that various commercial bodies promote in order to make us buy their wares, [...] |
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