Wow (read only if you're interested in maths)
Warning stop now if you don't like maths
Even now I am at times amazed by a new to me maths theorem that I haven't seen before.
Draw any three different size circle that do not over lap. Draw tangents joining each circle. The intersection points of the three pairs of tangents all meet in a straight line. WOW
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Wow, indeed. My eyes have gone funny 🤨
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Please, Sir, can we colour it in?
Sorry, Corners, no offence intended.
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Without numbers as a guide I’m stumped😢, I can neither fill the gaps with the relevant colours nor join the lines. . . .Bummer☹️
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actually you don't realise how happy that question makes teachers, and especially when on supply.
It is absolutely amazing the calming effect of colouring in has on the most 'challenging' of classes, even in year 11. Get out the crayons (posh kids will have their own gel pens) and everyone is happy and quiet. Really! I suppose it takes them back to primary school?
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thanks for all the replies, I got this last night in the form of a question last night, what's the probability of drawing three circles and.....
It's one of those questions that you immediately think that can't be true, but then can it? Guess who sadly drew out some examples?
Found out last night that you can use the same idea with 3D spheres (football, tennis, and table tennis balls) and tangent cones, a very easy to follow proof is here.
so... a caravan (club site naturally) has an infinite number of pitches and they are all taken, after 12 an outfit turns up, what happens?
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It is absolutely amazing the calming effect of colouring in has on the most 'challenging' of classes, even in year 11. Get out the crayons (posh kids will have their own gel pens) and everyone is happy and quiet. Really! I suppose it takes them back to primary school?
Or the last wall they sprayed with Graffiti.
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"so... a caravan (club site naturally) has an infinite number of pitches and they are all taken, after 12 an outfit turns up, what happens?"
Can I be the first pedantic one to ask if it's possible that all pitches are taken if there's an infinite number of them, Corners?
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“so... a caravan (club site naturally) has an infinite number of pitches and they are all taken, after 12 an outfit turns up, what happens?”
An argument with the warden followed by a moan on CT?😛
Or, another pitch appears?
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I should add, in case you're doing supply work soon, that the class themselves have to ask to do it? If you gave out the crayons and tell them to colour in you'll get the we're not babies/at primary school now you know type of cries.
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great question, see what fun you can have with infinity? Hours and hours of it
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and again last one (this was my favourite till the circles)
the infinite sequence
1 -1 +1 -1 +1 -1 + 1 -1 .....
has sum 0, 1, or even (mind bendingly) a half?
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I wonder if some interesting theorem is out there if taken into the 3rd of possibly 4th dimension.
I remember 'messing about' with Möbius loops in maths lessons introducting double or triple twists etc.and cutting along length having attempting to predict outcomes. Those always fascinated me and I never managed to understand the results which baffled me.
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yes still do that mobius loop if the class is capable of using scissors with too much harm or haircutting
(A mobius bottle is easily made, get a strip of paper make a loop but before you stick the ends together twist one end by half a turn. You now have a shape with only one edge and one side, try cutting it in half along the strip and if that doesn't make you chuckle try why did the chicken cross the Mobius strip)
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so... a caravan (club site naturally) has an infinite number of pitches and they are all taken, after 12 an outfit turns up, what happens?.
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The guy at reception tells that outfit to "go away" or words to that effect
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He insists that those leaving site do the right thing and leave before 12.00
K
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LOL
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The Compleat Angler?😀
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