Weather maps use colours, numbers, symbols and lines to show us what the weather is, or is predicted to be,…
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Are Galaxies Symmetrical?
This week for the 40 week math challenge we were contemplating rotational symmetry. I love to look around in our…
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Stars
Over the Easter break we enjoyed a trip to the Bendigo Planetarium, it is part of the Science and Technology…
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Solar Storms
The Sun’s cycle is ramping up The Sun goes through cycles where sunspot activity increases roughly every 11 years when…
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Floods
The current floods Australia is experiencing gave us a learning opportunity to understand how floods occur, how we can prepare…
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Volcanoes
“On Saturday 15 January, at 5:10pm local time, the Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha’apai undersea volcano erupted in a blast 600 times…
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Bright and Beautiful String Art
The next in the series of post combining Math and Art, we are going to consider the Mathematical beauty of…
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Weather
Have you ever considered how much math you can cover as you study the weather? From the graceful arc of…
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Mushrooms
Do you like searching for mushrooms? This Fly Agaric is such a pretty mushroom, but it’s not one you would…
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Autumn Equinox
The Autumn Equinox is a time where the length of our day is equal to the length of our night….
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Investigating Time
“The child should be taught to observe the position of the sun in the heavens from hour by hour, and…
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