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Big MathsJamKicking us off on our first session of the morning was Matt Parker <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/@standupmaths" class="u-url mention">@standupmaths</a> who shared how he's planning to break the world record for the most digits of π calculated by hand, for next π day (see his other attempts here: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLhtC92GarkjyYbxI3-4qzIWIRbZaw4wuP" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no">https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLhtC92GarkjyYbxI3-4qzIWIRbZaw4wuP</a>). We also heard from Bob Huxley, who has also been thinking about π day, but this time on Mars where it turns out it's actually tomorrow! Annette Margolis then talked about her class' favourite (and least favourite) way to solve quadratic equations. John Hoskinson discussed Diffy Squares (<a href="https://mathforlove.com/2020/03/diffy-squares/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no">https://mathforlove.com/2020/03/diffy-squares/</a>) and adapted them to generalised diffy N-gons - for odd N, you get repeating cycles! Nobody has ever said the word 'diffy' more times in the space of 5 minutes. Alistair Bird <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/@outofthenorm" class="u-url mention">@outofthenorm</a> shared about a mathematician who got inspired in the bath (but not that one), and what his discovery meant (turns out, not much, but it did inspire some nice results around Fermat's Last Theorem). Read more here: <a href="https://outofthenormmaths.wordpress.com/2011/11/09/blitz-krieger/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no">https://outofthenormmaths.wordpress.com/2011/11/09/blitz-krieger/</a> Adam Atkinson talked about Misère Games, leading to his discovery of just how many semigroups of order 8 there are, inducting us all into membership of DOCTIAL (the Department of 'Crikey! That Is A Lot!'); and finally Harlan Connor got LOUD about signal processing - it's possible to have peaks in audio volume that are higher than the maximum value the system can store! <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/mathsjam" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#mathsjam</a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/maths" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#maths</a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/pi" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#pi</a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/worldrecords" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#worldrecords</a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/mars" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#mars</a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/piday" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#piday</a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/quadraticequations" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#quadraticequations</a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/classwork" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#classwork</a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/teaching" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#teaching</a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/diffysquares" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#diffysquares</a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/baths" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#baths</a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/inspiration" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#inspiration</a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/mis%C3%A8regames" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#misèregames</a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/doctial" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#doctial</a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/loud" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#loud</a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/signalprocessing" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#signalprocessing</a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/groups" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#groups</a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/monoids" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#monoids</a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/semigroups" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#semigroups</a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/combinatorialgametheory" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#combinatorialgametheory</a>

Mary Beth FrezonHow far can it go?I worked with this little watercolor painting tonight from the spontaneous watercolor landscape workshop.[…] <a href="https://quiltr.com/?p=23968" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://quiltr.com/?p=23968</a><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Classwork" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Classwork</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/dothework" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#dothework</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/edges" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#edges</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/flowers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#flowers</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/watercolor" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#watercolor</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/watercolorpainting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#watercolorpainting</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/windowbox" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#windowbox</a>

Mary Beth FrezonSpontaneous Watercolor Class Part ThreeI'll have to go back and watch part two again because in part three, it seemed doing wet on dry was quite different - and it worked great to make funky little edges and shapes[…] <a href="https://quiltr.com/?p=23952" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://quiltr.com/?p=23952</a><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Classwork" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Classwork</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/dothework" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#dothework</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/landscape" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#landscape</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/watercolor" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#watercolor</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/watercolorpainting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#watercolorpainting</a>

Mary Beth FrezonYesterday I did the first stage work for lesson three of Spontaneous Watercolor Landscapes with Steve Mitchell via Strathmore. Today I tried to pull out some landscape. This one ended up being a rose arbor. Thought the reddish brown blobs might end up flowers but the verticals suggested something taller. The other one doesn't look like particular trees but I will work on it some more. Maybe I can get a stone bridge in there. <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Watercolor" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Watercolor</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/watercolorpainting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#watercolorpainting</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/classwork" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#classwork</a>

Mary Beth FrezonMonday already.When I woke up this morning I was an itchy mess. Or at least my neck and chin were an itchy mess. I was going to take some benadryl, but I guess this doesn't happen often enough (thank goodness) so t[…] <a href="https://quiltr.com/?p=23885" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://quiltr.com/?p=23885</a><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Classwork" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Classwork</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/dothework" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#dothework</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/flowers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#flowers</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/garden" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#garden</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/process" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#process</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/watercolor" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#watercolor</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/yardpainting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#yardpainting</a>

Mary Beth FrezonSecond go at Spontaneous Landscape Starts <a href="https://quiltr.com/?p=23844" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://quiltr.com/?p=23844</a><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Classwork" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Classwork</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/dothework" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#dothework</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/landscape" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#landscape</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/watercolor" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#watercolor</a>

Mary Beth FrezonAnother rainy day, with bits of blue sky <a href="https://quiltr.com/?p=23828" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://quiltr.com/?p=23828</a>putting out big pots knocking out last year's plants stubborn balls of roots.<a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Classwork" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Classwork</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/clouds" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#clouds</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/cloudscape" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#cloudscape</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/garden" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#garden</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/haiku" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#haiku</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/landscape" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#landscape</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/spring" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#spring</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/strathmore" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#strathmore</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/watercolor" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#watercolor</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/watercolorpainting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#watercolorpainting</a>

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