Maths project. Week 6 update

So this week, we pretty much finished research, now we are up to putting together our poster and presentation.
So far I have learnt a few things about the Pythagoras Theorem and maths including:

• What 'proofs' are. - rather self-explanatory really.
• The Pythagoras Theorem was technically discovered before Pythagoras actually existed - or at least people (historians mainly) believe it was.
• There is evidence that the Pythagoras Theorem was discovered/understood by Babylonian, Mesopotamian, Indian and Chinese mathematicians. Some even provided proof.

Anyway, wish us luck for putting everything together.
Keep you updated,
Stay classy :)

Video Tutorials

Quite sometime ago we did video tutorials and we were supposed to upload them to our blogs. I uploaded it to my old one but obviously now I'm uploading it to this one. I hope to do more of these in the future!

Enjoy!

(sorry about the quality of the video)

Cool Maths Video #1

Hey Again,

I found this video on Facebook and had to share it with you all! So I went and found it on Youtube, so here you go.....

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0SZw8jpfAk0

(link will open in a new window)

Hope this helps!

Maths Blog

Okay, so yes I am obsessed with maths, but not obsessed enough to create my own blog. This is simply a "project-type-thing". (not really but you - hopefully- get the idea)

I am in year 8, and my maths teachers' name is Ms Smith, she started this and suggested for my class to use Edublogs but that drove me slightly insane (I much prefer blogger). This blog will be about maths (obviously) and maths only. I will post cool maths tricks I find, questions, facts and so on.

Hope you enjoy and find this useful!
Merenia the Human Calculator (not really)

Maths projects. Week 5 update

So recently in maths, an idea (not much of an idea, because we had no say in it) was introduced. We were going to start maths projects.

Last week (school week: week 4) we started to research different topics from a list our teacher gave us and put our first 3 preferences on the sheet. This week we were given our groups, explained what we needed to do, and then got stuck into it.

Madeline and Kaleb are the two other people in our group and we are researching the Pythagoras Theorem. At the end of the next 4 Weeks we will be presenting an 8 minute presentation on our topic and the week after a poster (made for high school kids) will be given to our teacher, possibly for display at the end of year. And every week there needs to be a blog update on our progress. Each part is worth ten marks (group marks for the presentation and poster then individual marks for the updates)

But then there is the 'hamartia' - everything has to been done on computers.

This is my first ever maths project, but already it is quite fun.
I'll update you all on our progress next week.
Stay cool!