Mathematics

Tok Maths Resources. Hopefully this page will be useful to: 1.

Provide varied 10 minute starter material at the beginning of lessons to stimulate students’ interest in maths. 2. Provide a wealth of resources for students interested in writing about mathematics for their ToK essays. 3. Provide ideas and resources for teachers giving any ToK lectures on mathematics. 4. Provide ideas about future careers involving mathematics General ToK 1. 1.1 Basic Algebra. Dolphin whistle instantly translated by computer - life - 26 March 2014. Software has performed the first real-time translation of a dolphin whistle – and better data tools are giving fresh insights into primate communication too IT was late August 2013 and Denise Herzing was swimming in the Caribbean.

The dolphin pod she had been tracking for the past 25 years was playing around her boat. Suddenly, she heard one of them say, "Sargassum". "I was like whoa! We have a match. It detected a whistle for sargassum, or seaweed, which she and her team had invented to use when playing with the dolphin pod. TOK Math Terms flashcards. The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics in the Natural Sciences. Reading Materials.

Amazon Just Patented Shipping Items Before They're Even Ordered. Late last month, Amazon patented a process they've termed "anticipatory package shipping," in which products would be sent to fulfillment centers near the customers most likely to purchase them, before customers even order them.

"The patent's examples illustrate a speculative shipment system that deploys goods to specific geographical areas," Engadget explains. "If a customer in that area places an order that matches a nearby package, it would then be redirected to its final destination. " What’s so unlucky about the number 13? — Ask HISTORY — History Q&A. Researchers estimate that at least 10 percent of the U.S. population has a fear of the number 13, and each year the even more specific fear of Friday the 13, known as paraskevidekatriaphobia, results in financial losses in excess of $800 million annually, as people avoid marrying, traveling or in the most severe cases, even working.

But what’s so unlucky about the number 13, and how did this numerical superstition get started? An early myth surrounding the origin of the fear involved one of the world’s oldest legal documents, the Code of Hammurabi, which reportedly omitted a 13th law from its list of legal rules. In reality, the omission was no more than a clerical error made by one of the document’s earliest translators who failed to include a line of text—in fact, the code doesn’t numerically list its laws at all. Math Is Astoundingly Beautiful, And We've Found The Video To Prove It. The Simpsons’ Secret? It’s Written by Math Geeks. The Simpsons' secret formula: it's written by maths geeks. Simpsons and Their Mathematical Secrets - Simon Singh.

Deciphering the Strange Mathematics of Cicadas [Video] “Periodical cicadas have the longest life cycles known for insects.

They are called ‘periodical’ because in any one population all but a trivially small fraction are exactly the same age. The nymphs suck juices from the roots of forest trees and finally emerge from the ground, become adults, mate, lay their eggs, and die, all within the same few weeks of every 17th (or in the South, every 13th) year. Not one species does this, but three, and they always do it together.” —Monte Lloyd and Henry S. TOK Math. 17 Captivating Fractals Found in Nature. Fractals: they’re famously found in nature and artists have created some incredible renderings as well.

Fractals are purely a wonder – too irregular for Euclidean geometry; iterative and recursive and seemingly infinite. They turn up in food and germs, plants and animals, mountains and water and sky. Here are seventeen stunning examples: 1. Sea shells Images via Sustainable San Mateo and Designer The nautilus is one of the most famous examples of a fractal in nature. 2. Images via Popular Science and Daily Dose of Imagery.

Hunting the Hidden Dimension. Largely because of its haunting beauty, the Mandelbrot set has become the most famous object in modern mathematics.

Fractal Geometry. Earth's Most Stunning Natural Fractal Patterns. IDL TIFF fileFrom sea shells and spiral galaxies to the structure of human lungs, the patterns of chaos are all around us.Fractals are patterns formed from chaotic equations and contain self-similar patterns of complexity increasing with magnification.

If you divide a fractal pattern into parts you get a nearly identical reduced-size copy of the whole.The mathematical beauty of fractals is that infinite complexity is formed with relatively simple equations. By iterating or repeating fractal-generating equations many times, random outputs create beautiful patterns that are unique, yet recognizable.We have pulled together some of the most stunning natural examples we could find of fractals on our planet.Above: Romanesco BroccoliThis variant form of cauliflower is the ultimate fractal vegetable. Platonic Solids. Platonic_Solids. Symmetry - Reflection and Rotation. [syn- together + metron measure] Reflection Symmetry.

Golden Ratio. The Idea Behind It Have a try yourself (use the slider): Beauty This rectangle has been made using the Golden Ratio, Looks like a typical frame for a painting, doesn't it? The Rhind Papyrus. This well-known Egyptian symbol is actually an early math problem. Amazon. BBC Four - The Story of Maths. Amazon.co.