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Colin the Mathmo

I've been thinking about this for ages, but never had the time to craft the words around it.

People keep saying that "Maths should be fun" ... and I push back with "It should be engaging ... 'fun' is a different thing.

So @rakhichawla has posted pretty much exactly this, but better than I ever could.

I'm copying it here with permission.

Please read this, then as it says at the end ... let's have a deeper conversation about this ...

1/n

(PS: I'd love this to get boosted to get outside my bubble ... you're all amazing, but there will be other opinions, and other thoughts that could be helpful or valuable)

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Colin the Mathmo

Some time ago ... (A month!) ... there was a thread on Twitter that I think should be shared here. I've been trying to extract and post it semi-automatically, but Twitter just makes it damn near impossible.

So I'm copying it "by hand"

Here's a chart of the full conversation:

solipsys.co.uk/Chartter/185675

Here's the head of the conversation:

x.com/TweetingCynical/status/1





I will occasionally update the chart of *this* conversation, and it will be here:

solipsys.co.uk/Chartodon/Teach

Here is the content ...

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Karen Campe

Some fun math "switcheroos":
A% of B = B% of A
log_b(a) = 1/log_a(b)
Sin(A) = Cos(B) in right triangle

Do you have any others in this style? Would love to add more to this list.
{Was awake in the night thinking about the middle one, based on Q posed in a FB group}

#MTBoS#iTeachMath#MathChat
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