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Reminder of homework from Tues 18th Nov: pg 80, Ex 16C Qu 1 (a - d)  and Ex 16D Qu 1 (a - d).

For Thurs…

Here’s the slides from the lesson. Ex 6F please for Weds!

You can download some quick pointers for revision here. Test is going to be Period 5 on Thursday!

A brilliant programme looking at Godel’s theorems, which proved once and for all that Mathematics would never be able to exist without paradoxes - results which shocked the academic world to its core.

From the BBC, here.

Tetris is a lot more Mathematical than you might think. The shapes used in the game are all the possibile permutations of 4 square blocks, and the most efficient way of ‘packing’ blocks like is something Mathematicians have to deal with in industry.

See how far you can get - link here!

I hope you have enjoyed your holidays. Remember you have some homework to hand in on Tuesday (4th November).

I’ve been over exercise (d) in the last hour - some hints; it will help if you can find where a straight line passes both the x axis (when y=0) and the y axis (when x=0) and hence you are able to sketch straight lines.

Questions 6,7,8 are quite demanding. Do your best with them and I will go over these examples on Tuesday morning.

As we weren’t able to organise a school trip to see this play, you will need to organise your own visit during half term, if you wish to see it. Details can be found at

http://www.barbican.org.uk/theatre/event-detail.asp?ID=7382

It runs till the Nov 1st and there are afternoon matinees on a few days. Highly recommended for 6th form and top set Year 11s, especially those considering Maths A level.

Mondays at 9pm on BBC4; repeated the following Sunday at 7pm

Written and introduced by Marcus de Sautoy. For more info go to

http://www.open2.net/storyofmaths/index.html

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.

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!