IB Maths Resources from Intermathematics
IB Maths Resources: 300 IB Maths Exploration ideas, video tutorials and Exploration Guides
Does it Pay to be Nice? Game Theory and Evolution Game theory is an interesting branch of mathematics with links across a large number of disciplines - from politics to economics to biology and psychology. The most well known example is that of the Prisoner's Dilemma. (Illustrated below). Two prisoners are taken into custody and... Continue Reading →
Is God a Mathematician? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jremlZvNDuk&feature=youtu.be That's the provocative question posed by American Physicist Michio Kaku in this fascinating 5 minute interview which takes in the ideas of Newton, Einstein and modern ideas on String Theory. It addresses the fundamental questions in maths ToK - is mathematics invented or discovered? What explains the "unreasonable effectiveness" of... Continue Reading →
Premier League Finances - Debt and Wages This is a great article from the Guardian DataBlog analysing the finances for last season's Premier League clubs. As the Guardian says, "More than two thirds of the Premier League's record £2.4bn income in 2011-12 was paid out in wages, according to the most recently published accounts of... Continue Reading →
This is inspired by a fantastic website - we use math - which has a massive amount of information about different careers using mathematics in a really well laid out format. According to a comprehensive careers survey by Careers Cast - which looked at over 200 different jobs and ranked them for stress, pay, job... Continue Reading →
Michio Kaku - American Professor of Theoretical Physics and fantastic populariser of mathematics and physics takes us through a 40 minute journey on the importance of physics in explaining the universe: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0NbBjNiw4tk Great stuff - well worth watching!
Graham's Number - literally big enough to collapse your head into a black hole Graham's Number is a number so big that it would literally collapse your head into a black hole were you fully able to comprehend it. And that's not hyperbole - the informational content of Graham's Number is so astronomically large that... Continue Reading →
Plus Maths has a large number of great podcasts which look at maths ToK topics: 1) An interview with Max Tegmark (pictured above) about why he thinks that the universe is itself a mathematical structure. 2) An interview with physicists David Berman about how many dimensions exist. 3) A talk with cosmologist John Barrow about... Continue Reading →
One of my favourite resources is the Jeopardy quizzes. For those not familiar with the game (I think it's American), it's a gameshow, where you get to choose questions of different levels of difficulty, from a range of categories. I downloaded the template from TES - it's a ready-made powerpoint which you can click on... Continue Reading →