Sorry it´s blurry, pic taken in Broome 1999, cartoon in the Western Australian, "Pigeon-Pie" the cartoon was named - I took a "film"-pic!
Pigeon one wants to share:
"πr²?" - Dumb one: "No, Pie are round!"
I laughed my head off.
Saturday morning, I turn on the telly and... WOW! Ran over to Ingo after I saw the "birth", and Ingo then stayed with me to watch more.
Archimedes (287-212 BC) needed a technique to store as much grain as possible on as small a place as possible et voilá... he came up with π ("The number π (/paɪ/; spelled out as "pi") is a mathematical constant that is the ratio of a circle's circumference to its diameter, approximately equal to 3.14159." Wiki)
On they went with the parabola ...
that´s how roos, for example, move most efficient.
Termites have their buildings created that way, too. Hello Australia!
The sea-creature nautilus "works" with 1.618 ...
You certainly all know his other famous "sketch", I spare you that.Hmmm...
Take bees - their hive-construction is twice as steady as steel!!!
... that man haunts me, LOL!
They could join Halloween!
Fern for example produces copies of it´s leaves, so-called "satellites"...
... also romanesco and many more do this, even clouds - and HA! I read about Mandelbrot in The Simpsons-book already. And this...
I was never good in "math" at school (#Infinitesimalrechnung - which I never needed), but real mathematics sure is soooo fascinating!
Second show had certainly Newton on, and music, all is math (or physics) - Henry only can get a gazelle despite being taller and needing more power because the gazelle has smaller hoofs and sinks in - her advantage of getting through the atmosphere easier due to her smaller body gets lost!
Weather, ... math! Physics. And... chaos. Our thinking, our genes.
Can a butterfly trigger a tornado?
8m of a windmill´s arm went to 80m - can we go bigger or will chaos take over and they go into fatal destruction?
WHY!!!! Why could school not have been like this?!
PRACTICAL stuff, from real life to get you interested in the dry process of understanding the formulas?
Really, with all available today... being a fab teacher would be so easy!
Watch such programs and teach the kids! Does cost no money even.
Draw pictures or take photos and integrate the art class, let the kids paint what they saw or heard later.
Take biology in (and history), call it "art and science" and - kaboom - you´re back at where Leonardo da Vinci started back in the day!
Studies on swarm-movements ... high-quality cartoon-movies. Wikipedia! It´s a swarm-movement! The swarm manages to give high quality!
Maybe you say, ohhhh-boy, yes, I know this since ages!
Well, I did not.
Next: Drugs.
Beer as #1! LOL! Call me a druggie then. An Ale-druggie. Chocolate-beer. Honey-beer... endless options!
And what is beer? We´re back at pooping! Pooping grains, not lice.
The Egyptians started it all, of course.
It was even "money". The pyramids... the workers had beer with them!
Muscles don´t hurt as much and they can work harder, who ever knew, I did not!
To beer! 🍻
And later this is how people got sedentary - they wanted beer!
(and maybe bread) !
In Mesopotamia they used beer to keep the people at bay.
The Maya... even The Simpsons have more than one episode on this! Frogs!
And with that dealership came up, too.
I never did any other "drug", despite being offered (I´m such a bore). But. This was interesting, too! History-lesson! Medication was drugs in the stone age. They were called "bee-men", who provided this.
Magic mushrooms - still a popular drug today (I learned now) - or to be a medication against depression.
Nutmeg was another drug and Shakespeare consumed weed. Word-plays gave it away,
Cannabis was used for paper and ropes on ships.
Potatoes were used to make schnapps..
And glasses as well as printing was invented in the "dark" Middle Ages!
If respect and safety was the rule...
I might want to become a good teacher.
I understand the - here not allowed - concept of home-schooling a Perth friend did for a while.
Teach the basics and then... what YOU think is important and HOW.
If I wasn´t that old I maybe would want I kid (haha, kidding).
Oh, I remember grade 2, yes grade 2!!! We were 7 year-olds! Some boys´d learned from older siblings that teacher M. is weak.
First lesson they jumped over the tables and made that man cry.
I was horrified.
I was taught respect.
So, maybe this is our future: We learn from the telly!
With Sesame Street...
... and Die Maus that´s how my learning process begun in the 70´s.
... and will continue in 3 hours! DIE MAUS will be on!
OK, declare this the most boring Sunday-post.
But I got excited. Then again, my then-boss told me off for taking a math book to Cuba in 2006.
More on that another time 😉
Let us NEVER stop learning!
