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unusual facts about Maths



Aberfoyle Park High School

In 2008, Aberfoyle Park High School entered into a partnership with defense contractor, Raytheon Australia to provide $450,000 funding over the next 3 years for purchase of new computers for IGNITE, Science and Maths students at the school.

Aldworth School

As well as in class teaching, Aldworth also uses three different websites to help students with their education: Studywiz is the school's virtual learning environment; MyMaths is used by the maths department; and SAM Learning is a revision tool

Anne Campbell

She was a secondary school maths teacher in Cambridgeshire, a lecturer in Statistics at Cambridge College of Arts and Technology (became Anglia Higher Education College in 1989) from 1970–83, and head of Statistics and Data Processing at the National Institute of Agricultural Botany from 1983-92.

Austin Vince

Latterly he played the maths teacher in Channel 4's That'll Teach 'Em and has in the past taught at St.Johns Northwood as a maths teacher.

Babyji

In contrast to this scenario is Animika herself, a budding intellectual who devours books—among other authors, she has read Dostoevsky, Sartre, Kundera and Bradbury and reads Nabokov's Lolita during her trip to Kasauli—and at school excels at maths and physics.

Bedlingtonshire Community High School

Bedlingtonshire Community High School (BCHS) is a Maths and Computing College located in Bedlington, Northumberland in the North East of England.

Bryony Shaw

She attended Cheney Upper School on Cheney Lane near Headington in Oxford gaining A levels in Art, Maths and Biology, where her father had been teaching Business Studies for PhD at Oxford Brookes University.

Columba Catholic College

The Primary Curriculum at Columba Catholic College is designed to emphasise the basic skills of numeracy and literacy, whilst integrating the Key Learning Areas (KLA's) of Religious Education , English, Maths, Science, Studies of Society and Environment, Languages other than English (LOTE), Health and Physical Education, The Arts and Technology.

Divesh Shah

He came up with an idea of presenting the numbers to audiences in the form of a stage show named "The Maths Show", the first performance hit the Mumbai (Bombay) city at Zaverben Hall, Ghatkopar, on September 7, 1998.

Inkamana High School

Funding of six million rand a year was earmarked for Adams College, Inkamana High School, Ohlange High School, Inanda Seminary and Vryheid Comprehensive High School to make them academies focussing on Maths, Science and Technology.

Institute of Cryptography, Telecommunications and Computer Science

The institute also runs an evening physics and maths school, an ex-budgetary Scientific Research Laboratory while the Academy has provision for post-graduate military courses, MA and PhD dissertation boards.

Jal Fazer

Her other favourite things include eating chips, Maxxie Oliver's dancing, and the correlation between maths and music (Pythagorean triples).

Kiddies Corner

The programme built up a huge following on the island and thousands of children tuned in to listen to 'Uncle Craig,' over the airwaves of Radio Ceylon—the programme had a mix of stories, plays, maths tables, children's songs sung by a range of artistes such as Burl Ives, Danny Kaye and Max Bygraves together with children's folk songs in Sinhala and Tamil.

Louis Costaz

After studying maths, he taught at the military school at Thiron until 1793, then at the École polytechnique.

Manufahi Teacher Training and Resource Centre

For several years Catholic Education Parramatta has been sending volunteers from Australia to Timor Leste to provide training for local teachers of Maths and English.

Marcel Rainaud

Before serving in the Senate, he had been a maths teacher by profession, and had served as a Municipal Councillor, and Mayor of the Commune of Talairan.

Nedum Onuoha

He then completed his studies at Xaverian College Manchester where he achieved three 'A' grades at A-level in Maths, Business Studies and IT.

Oakland Colegio Campestre

Colegio Oakland (Oakland School) attends the Space School program since 2009 at Space Center Houston, leading Colombian Student participation of NASA’s (National Aeronautics and Space Administration) educational programs, encouraging young people to gain an interest in physics, engineering, space science and STEM subjects, science, technology, engineering and maths.

Part III of the Mathematical Tripos

Several notable astronomers and astrophysicists have been awarded the Tyson Medal in the history of Part III maths, including Jayant Narlikar, Ray Lyttleton and Edmund Whittaker.

Richard Farleigh

He attended Narwee Boys High School, excelled at maths and competitive chess, and then won a scholarship to study economics at the University of New South Wales.

Roll No 21

Taarak: Taarak, an incarnation of Tarakasur, is Kanishk's cousin who is there in the school as a maths teacher.

Roy Kerr

Although there was no maths teacher there at the time he was able in 1951 to go straight into third year Mathematics at the Canterbury University College of the University of New Zealand, the precursor to the University of Canterbury.

Tony McWalter

At the University College of Wales, Aberystwyth, he gained a BSc in Pure Maths in 1967, and a BSc in Philosophy in 1968.

Veronica German

She was a teacher for 25 years, where she taught Science, Maths and ICT in many schools across the former Gwent LEA area.

Vicky Ford

She studied maths and economics at Trinity College, Cambridge, where she met her husband Hugo Ford, a cancer consultant at Addenbrookes, West Suffolk and Papworth Hospital, and they have three children.


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