National Math Day

First celebrated 9 May 2020

This week was best described as an optimistic start followed by a distinct lull and ending on a slight upturn.

Tam started the week with a fancy new calculator and math themed lock down goggles:

Nice equipment Tam

Jacob declared himself Minister of Education for this week, he pulled a sickie for most of it then limped back in on Friday to avoid the sack, clearly he is well on the way to a career in real politics.

On Monday he set us a data management task.  We all had to come up with a question and some possible answers and make a chart with the results.  Here are the very probing and interesting questions we all asked:

Tam:

Which would you rather have as a pet?

Tam's chart

Great charting don't you think? Id give her a job based on that alone.

Laurence:

Where do you most like to go swimming?

1. Indoor swimming pool
2. Outdoor swimming pool
3. Sea/ocean
4. Lake
5. River

Duncan:

How many farts do you do every day?

1. 0
2. 1-3
3. 4-6
4. More than 6

Charts pending on these 2 but we'll let them off.

Me:

What is your favourite breakfast?

My technologically advanced chart

Rose:

Would you rather:

1. Swim in barf
2. Eat only vegetables for a week
3. Be a rabbit for a day
4. Get eaten by Heff (our neighbour's cat)

Rose provided a beautiful pink bar graph that you can find here.

On Day 2 the minister didn't make it out of bed until very late and was mooping about saying he didn't know what to do so I was forced so step in with this:

Day 2 question sheet

I am happy to say that Tam came up with a plausible business plan based on current circumstances,  but I'm not sure how she will make any money exporting moss balls and mechanical fish worldwide for £3.95 shipping and handling.  Rose figured out that the Stallard household will eat the most veg in a week given their answers.  I'm disappointed not to know who's is the stinkiest house but I'm sure we all have our own views on that one, lol.

On Wednesday it was up to me again and we used our data set to make new numbers, theoretically exploring BODMAS but not really.

Thursday was a national math holiday.

Friday was fractions, Jacob asked us to express our data as fractions, percentages and decimals and we celebrated TGIFractions.  Quarter pounders for dinner and I opened a half bottle of wine.

So Saturday was actual National Math Day.  We didn't actually celebrate it very much but we ate Pi and I knocked up mini triple peanut butter chocolate cheesecakes for dessert.  They were eaten pretty fast and I forgot to photograph them but the recipe is here in case anyone is ever interested.