The Sydenham High School Mathematics Department Blog » Maths in the News http://www.shsmaths.com Fri, 06 Jan 2012 09:57:11 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.4 Mr Brewin’s S1 – The Spirit Level http://www.shsmaths.com/2011/01/mr-brewins-s1-the-spirit-level/ http://www.shsmaths.com/2011/01/mr-brewins-s1-the-spirit-level/#comments Mon, 24 Jan 2011 10:01:07 +0000 Mr Brewin http://www.shsmaths.com/?p=1690 The slides I was talking about are embedded below. They are from a debate between the authors of The Spirit Level (you can buy it here) and their detractors (who have been shown to be wrong, and wanting to dispute the evidence for ideological reasons). The audio of the debate can be found here. Peter Saunders [...]

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]]> The slides I was talking about are embedded below. They are from a debate between the authors of The Spirit Level (you can buy it here) and their detractors (who have been shown to be wrong, and wanting to dispute the evidence for ideological reasons). The audio of the debate can be found here.
Peter Saunders and Christopher Snowdon Presentation to the RSA. July 2010.
Kate Pickett and Richard Wilkinson Presentation to the RSA. July 2010

]]> http://www.shsmaths.com/2011/01/mr-brewins-s1-the-spirit-level/feed/ 0 Mr Brewin’s Y12 S1 – Correlation http://www.shsmaths.com/2011/01/mr-brewins-y12-s1-correlation/ http://www.shsmaths.com/2011/01/mr-brewins-y12-s1-correlation/#comments Thu, 20 Jan 2011 14:08:56 +0000 Mr Brewin http://www.shsmaths.com/?p=1679 The powerpoint on correlation and PMCC can be found here.

The ‘Joy of Stat’s programme I was talking about is on iPlayer here (need to watch it soon as it’ll soon expire) and the ‘More or Less’ podcast can be found on their website too. Well worth listening to.

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The ‘Joy of Stat’s programme I was talking about is on iPlayer here (need to watch it soon as it’ll soon expire) and the ‘More or Less’ podcast can be found on their website too. Well worth listening to.

]]> http://www.shsmaths.com/2011/01/mr-brewins-y12-s1-correlation/feed/ 0 Would a Mathematician Do Better on ‘Deal or No Deal?’ http://www.shsmaths.com/2009/05/would-a-mathematician-do-better-on-deal-or-no-deal/ http://www.shsmaths.com/2009/05/would-a-mathematician-do-better-on-deal-or-no-deal/#comments Fri, 22 May 2009 08:59:57 +0000 Mr Brewin http://www.shsmaths.com/?p=1191 The BBC find out here!

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]]> http://www.shsmaths.com/2009/05/would-a-mathematician-do-better-on-deal-or-no-deal/feed/ 0 Maths of the Credit Crunch… http://www.shsmaths.com/2009/02/maths-of-the-credit-crunch/ http://www.shsmaths.com/2009/02/maths-of-the-credit-crunch/#comments Wed, 25 Feb 2009 15:49:17 +0000 Mr Brewin http://www.shsmaths.com/?p=1090 For those wanting to get to the figures behind the news, there’s an excellent article here on the BBC, with a link to a good podcast about the recent financial turmoil. Seems like Mathematicians may be partially to blame /-(

]]> For those wanting to get to the figures behind the news, there’s an excellent article here on the BBC, with a link to a good podcast about the recent financial turmoil. Seems like Mathematicians may be partially to blame /-(

]]> http://www.shsmaths.com/2009/02/maths-of-the-credit-crunch/feed/ 0 Year 12 and 13 – ‘More or Less’ BBC Podcast http://www.shsmaths.com/2009/01/year-12-and-13-more-or-less-bbc-podcast/ http://www.shsmaths.com/2009/01/year-12-and-13-more-or-less-bbc-podcast/#comments Wed, 21 Jan 2009 15:54:26 +0000 Mr Brewin http://www.shsmaths.com/?p=1068 Excellent weekly radio programme from BBC, looking at the numbers behind the news. This is exactly the sort of stuff that would enrich a university interview, so put it on your podcast list and grab half an hour a week to get smart

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]]> Excellent weekly radio programme from BBC, looking at the numbers behind the news. This is exactly the sort of stuff that would enrich a university interview, so put it on your podcast list and grab half an hour a week to get smart ;-)

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iTunes Podcast

]]> http://www.shsmaths.com/2009/01/year-12-and-13-more-or-less-bbc-podcast/feed/ 0 Quantum Cryptography – the ultimate secret messenger! http://www.shsmaths.com/2008/10/quantum-cryptography-the-ultimate-secret-messenger/ http://www.shsmaths.com/2008/10/quantum-cryptography-the-ultimate-secret-messenger/#comments Fri, 10 Oct 2008 09:06:11 +0000 Mr Brewin http://www.shsmaths.com/?p=1027

About 30 years after it was proposed, mathematicians, engineers and scientists have finally unveiled a ‘Quantum Cryptography’ system – a way of sending information like bank details over the internet in code which can never be broken.

Read the article here, and if you’re interested in the history of codes and code-breaking, there’s a great book [...]

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About 30 years after it was proposed, mathematicians, engineers and scientists have finally unveiled a ‘Quantum Cryptography’ system – a way of sending information like bank details over the internet in code which can never be broken.

Read the article here, and if you’re interested in the history of codes and code-breaking, there’s a great book called The Code Book which you’d really enjoy.

]]> http://www.shsmaths.com/2008/10/quantum-cryptography-the-ultimate-secret-messenger/feed/ 0 Credit Crunch Clock Runs Out of Digits… http://www.shsmaths.com/2008/10/credit-crunch-clock-runs-out-of-digits/ http://www.shsmaths.com/2008/10/credit-crunch-clock-runs-out-of-digits/#comments Thu, 09 Oct 2008 14:26:40 +0000 Mr Brewin http://www.shsmaths.com/?p=1025 Ouch. The clock in America that has been counting up the ‘budget deficit’ – the overdraft of the US government – has run out of digits! They’re going to have to build a new one with two more digits… which will mean they can count up to numbers a hundred times bigger than the last [...]

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]]> Ouch. The clock in America that has been counting up the ‘budget deficit’ – the overdraft of the US government – has run out of digits! They’re going to have to build a new one with two more digits… which will mean they can count up to numbers a hundred times bigger than the last one!

Hmmm… The clock ran out when it went up to $10 trillion dollars. That’s $10,000,000,000,000. Or about $82000 per family in the US. That’s a lot of money! Now it’ll be measuring up to $1,000,000,000,000,000 – a quadrillion dollars!

See original story here. And if you want an up-to-date figure of how much the debt has got to right now, then click on the live link here!

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