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Maths in...
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The strangest place that I think maths is used in is Art. Escher proves this to us in his impressive work...
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To create dishes with good flavour, consistency, and texture, the various ingredients must have a kind of relationship to one another...
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We all do maths in maths lessons but not many people realise just how much we use maths everyday. Maths isn’t only about adding, subtracting and algebra...
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How important is it to be good at maths to make everyday life easier?
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Maths can tell us weather we are going to win something or not,(which can be very useful for the lottery etc)...
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A fractal is essentially a geometric shape which can be zoomed in on for ever, usually creating an image which is the same or very similar to the original shape.
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Fibonacci numbers often occur in nature. Petals are a very good example of this.
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What do the pyramids in Egypt, Leonardo da Vinci's portrait of the Mona Lisa, sunflowers, the snail, the pine cone and your fingers all have in common?
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The Mandelbrot set is a meant to represent the equation of infinity. If you zoom in on the Mandelbrot set then you should be able to zoom in for ever and it will always show different patterns.
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Maths and Magic? Do they relate to each other?
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Maths plays one of the major role in music. For example tuning; a frequently asked question is, why are there 12 tones in an octave? The answer has to do in part with the nature of sound.
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 ..NATURE by Sam Landman
Nature is beautiful, so many different, unique shapes and patterns. Such irregular dimensions and variations appear too random to have any mathematical connection...
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..SPORT (football) by Tom Obank
How would David Beckham curve a ball around a wall if he could?
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..SPORT (cricket) by Chris Lahr and James Nicholson
Like all sports rankings, cricket ratings involve some maths. In this case, they use a mathematical technique known as exponential weighting. For those who want to know more, read on.
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A Maglev can accelerate from 0 to 300km/h in 3800m, or 0 to 500km/h in 5000m. Doing the maths, this means an average acceleration of about 0.9m/ss
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Using six sided dice year six pupils have created random snowflakes following some probability rules.
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