Typically short and superficial but this video clip shows some of the latest uses of technology for visualising data.
Views, opinions, impressions and statements are the personal expressions of Marten Gallagher, ATM Web Editor
and are not necessarily those of the Association of Teachers of Mathematics
Wednesday, June 29, 2011
Friday, June 24, 2011
Language and Olympic ticket maths
A Locog statement read: "There has been unprecedented demand for cycling - every session and every price range was oversubscribed.
"Bradley and the team have made cycling one of the most popular sports at the London 2012 Games.
"We have developed an "athlete friends and family initiative" - a first - which enables all cyclists to buy two tickets to every event they compete in, so their friends and family can be there."
I don't quite see how having a 'pair' of tickets allows 'friends and family' to see Bradley Wiggins competing. A friend and a family member per event maybe but...
I still cannot persuade Locog to divulge the system used to allocate tickets in the initial ballot. A refusal of transparency smacks of something to hide to me.
Wednesday, June 22, 2011
Olympics tickets ballot
Does anyone know exactly how the ballot for tickets was operated - in detail?
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Tuesday, June 21, 2011
If the secretary of state says it's true, it's probably wrong
From the Guardian Diary:
guardian.co.uk, Tuesday 21 June 2011 22.45 BST
"Gove's law of education. If the secretary of state says it's true, it's probably wrong
"We are going to raise school standards. It is a given. Michael Gove is taking care of it. But he's a broad sweep man. Not so hot on the details, by all accounts. And we see that quite clearly in his quest to push the sciences. "What [students] need is a rooting in the basic scientific principles, Newton's laws of thermodynamics and Boyle's law," he told the Times. Which would have been a revelation to Newton himself. For he was responsible for the law of motion, not thermodynamics. Still, the day will come when everyone knows the difference and then all credit will go to Gove."
Oh dear, oh dear...
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