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#4 Re: Dark Discussions at Cafe Infinity » Bridge Collapse in Minneapolis » 2007-08-02 08:45:16

I heard about this on the new today. Very sad incident and my prayers also go out to everyone who may have been affected by this tragic event.

Here's a link to an article on the incident

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid= … refer=home

#5 Re: Introductions » Another Introduction » 2007-08-01 23:58:03

Greetings Choco
I'm scared of spiders as well and ants!
It's good your learning spanish. I can speak german and hawaiian quite well

#7 Re: This is Cool » Marble Adding Machine » 2007-07-31 21:29:07

I like that marble adding machine smile

#8 Re: This is Cool » The Human Calculator » 2007-07-31 10:14:14

A friend of my mum's works at the Cambridge Autism Research centre and we were studying a book on a boy with asperger's syndrome in English and because of this she offered to show me the research centre because i was very interested in the book. Daniel Tammet only happened to be there! We talked for about 10 minutes and he explained how he was fortunate because he didn't really have a problem with social skills. He told me though that he found it hard to understand left and right. He asked me what my favourite subject was and i said maths and smiled. He smiled back and said "that's great". He told me about how he saw numbers as shapes and how he saw some of them to be ugly and beautiful. He said "I even sometimes see people as numbers". It was  a really fun discussion and i wish i could remember all of it. He's an amazing guy

#9 Re: This is Cool » The Human Calculator » 2007-07-31 01:41:59

^He is a savant
I have actually met an extraordinary savant too  called Daniel Tammet. You can find him on youtube. He's a really nice person!

#10 Re: This is Cool » Useful Multiplacation "trick" » 2007-07-31 01:30:43

Well, why not? tongue
I did it to help improve my memory. Plus i was bored and the place i was staying at happened to have a poster of pi.  smile

#11 Re: Introductions » Hi » 2007-07-29 04:56:22

At least you've realised your interested in maths quite young

#12 Re: Introductions » Greetings fellow Mathematicians » 2007-07-28 21:19:36

Thanks Mathskido!

Everyone is so nice on these forums smile

#13 Re: Introductions » Hi » 2007-07-28 21:16:15

So, Have you just finishes year 6?

#14 Re: Introductions » Uhm... Hi! » 2007-07-28 08:34:24

Yay! Someone just like me!
I'm new here too and i love memorizing pi and solving quadratics!
It's great to meet you

#16 Maths Teaching Resources » Some useful or just funny math videos » 2007-07-28 00:44:18

Math_Girl
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Here are some useful videos i've found:


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6n8hKpLaWMI - This is a useful and clever multiplacation method using lines

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YFvwRzjTWAw - An even more useful method of multiplacation!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nxsPlxYbLJ4 -This is about evaluating logarithms and is very well expalined

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a81YvrV7Vv8 - This is a great song sung by Tom Lehrer about "New Math"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4tviuW6GHwY - The best song ever for learning pi to 30 decimal places!!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nmXkDbGdD4Q - This is called lose yourself in the digits and it's by pi diddy It's really funny and it's instead of eminem singing "Lose Yourself". The lyrics are great!!!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mhlc7peGlGg - This is about the monty hall problem and it explains it very well

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ooa8nHKPZ5k - One of the funniest songs ever. It's called "What you know about math"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ouJY6MzfGcg - Very funny video about a math test

I've forgoten how to do hyperlinks so if anyone knows it might make it easier big_smile

#17 Re: Introductions » Greetings fellow Mathematicians » 2007-07-27 23:00:15

My mum went away for a weekend about 4 months ago and i was staying at one of her friends' houses. In the room i was sleeping in, their was a poster of pi to 1000 digits. Very random i know but i wrote and learnt it up to 765 digits. I can recite it  quite quickly now. My mum's actually away again and i'm at the same house in the same room for 8 days. I can see the poster if i turn my head so maybe i'll learn more big_smile

#18 Re: Guestbook » My Mathematical Memories Message » 2007-07-27 21:46:22

hmmm...
Well i've got a book which goes through 2 modules. It's core 1 and 2 and it's 442 pages long. I got it from my library. I think i'll look out for core 1 and 2 and I'll look out for some of the applied maths books too. There is so much to work on!

#19 Re: Guestbook » My Mathematical Memories Message » 2007-07-27 21:24:35

Learning A-Level makes you realise just how easy GCSE  work is. The good thing is that most of the GCSE work is already covered in Key Stage 3 apart from surds, rules of sine and cosine, the quadratic formula, variation and graphs of shift and stretch. A-Leel has tonnes of new topics. Well done for geting an A in all your modules so far. So, for an A-Level you need to do 6 modules? So, for instance, core 1 is just one module and you have to do 6?

#21 Re: Guestbook » My Mathematical Memories Message » 2007-07-27 21:12:12

The one i hate is the mechanics one. Stats isn't that bad to me and I am doing it for GCSE. So did you actually do an A-Level while you were in high school? I would consider taking the exam early but i did my SATS test a year early (Like another 7 other pupils in my school) and I got a  level 7a but then the following year i got a level 8a. Also, my old maths teacher trued to put 3 years curriculum into 1 year and it really didn't work because she always wanted to go to the IT Suite and draw a diagram on the board. One time we spent 2 weeks on a presentation about noughts and crosses. I really didn't learn much new maths in the first 2 years of high school.In year 9 though, we had a great teacher, he really wanted to push th class forward and certain individulas like myself. He told me about a girl who he taught A-Level stuff to in year 8 and she didn't even realise it was A-Level work! That mademe want to do that too and really push myself. It's also the summer holidays at the moment and my mum is away so i'm staying at a friend of hers house but i have my own room with a computer and sky. I brang  a suitcase full of GCSE books and a pure mathematics and Law A-Level text book.
I'm just saying that i want to get the best possible mark i can and i'd rather do it when i can really get the highest mark i can. Let's see how it goes..

#22 Re: Introductions » Greetings fellow Mathematicians » 2007-07-27 20:58:05

^Newcastle eh
What's the weather like there? It has been raining here and earlier in the week my area's water got contaminated and i had to boil water first before drinking it sad
It was also raining this morning

#23 Re: Guestbook » My Mathematical Memories Message » 2007-07-27 20:27:10

^Thank you so much! It is good to finally get some encouragement

Like your display picture by the way smile

#24 Re: Introductions » Greetings fellow Mathematicians » 2007-07-27 20:24:55

Thank you Identity for welcoming me. As you can see my avatar says "Maths is for cool kids"

#25 Re: This is Cool » Useful Multiplacation "trick" » 2007-07-27 20:20:56

It is indeed and it's very delicious tongue

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