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 Posted by: Lois Lindemann on: January 15th, 2015  Posted in: Everything Tags for this post: Maths | Random Musings.  Comments are closedI like dates that make nice patterns, so I was quite pleased to notice that yesterday’s date made an addition statement. I wrote 14/1/15 on the whiteboard in my classroom, spotted the pattern and then changed what I had written to say 14+1=15 Happy Addition Day! Quite a few students remarked on this and started […] Posted by: Lois Lindemann on: January 8th, 2015 Posted in: Everything Tags for this post: Maths | The Job. 2 comments - more welcome! - (Comments are closed)How would you write three pounds and fifty pence in figures? When walking through central London at the weekend, I noticed something slightly unusual about the menu pinned up outside the Golden Fleece pub: I thought it was odd, but assumed it was a one-off. Then I spotted the same thing on the […] Posted by: Lois Lindemann on: August 19th, 2014 Posted in: Everything | Life Tags for this post: Maths | My Life. Comments are closedHow much is too much? We have plenty of space in the back of the car, but when buying bags of sand and pebbles as we did today, the big concern isn’t space, it’s weight. I didn’t want to do more trips to the builders’ merchant than necessary, neither did I want to be the […] Posted by: Lois Lindemann on: April 24th, 2013 Posted in: Everything Tags for this post: Books | Maths. Comments are closedI like maths. I like quotations. Obviously this book appealed to me. I was expecting a standard book of quotations, but was pleased to discover that this wasn’t quite what I had anticipated. There are, as the title suggests, around 100 mathematical quotations from people as diverse as the hoopy frood Douglas Adams, Nobel […] Posted by: Lois Lindemann on: February 14th, 2010 Posted in: Everything Tags for this post: Maths | Mr TLC. 2 comments - more welcome! - (Comments are closed)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 strips […] Posted by: Lois Lindemann on: January 9th, 2010 Posted in: Everything Tags for this post: Food | Maths. 5 comments - more welcome! - (Comments are closed)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. Still, […] Posted by: Lois Lindemann on: April 1st, 2009 Posted in: Uncategorized Tags for this post: Maths | Random Musings. One comment so far - more welcome! - (Comments are closed)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 no […] 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! - (Comments are closed)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 Day […] Posted by: Lois Lindemann on: July 9th, 2008 Posted in: Uncategorized Tags for this post: Maths. Comments are closedYou 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! - (Comments are closed)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, if […] |
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