Ouch - this is what can happen when you try to catch a hard red ball and fail. But at least the sit in A&E has given me a chance to finish the excellent biography of Thomas Harriot, the greatest English mathematician that nobody's ever heard of.
Imagine if numeracy were taught in history lessons.
So many great stories about how and why the Tudors switched from Roman to Indo Arabic numerals.
Here's the GCSE 'exam' that we circulated at the recent
@histassoc.bsky.social conference:
robeastaway.com/graphics/GCS...
#NationalNumeracyDay
Coming to Leeds very soon - replicas of John Venn's incredible bowling machine, first tested out on the touring Australian Ashes team in 1909.
It's part of the City of Maths programme.
www.cityofmaths.co.uk/whats-on/bow...
A More or Less listener asked: "How many football pitches could you fit in Wales?"
I was on this morning's programme to answer this surprisingly nuanced question. Item starts at 24:00 www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
A More or Less listener asked: "How many football pitches could you fit in Wales?"
I was on this morning's programme to answer this surprisingly nuanced question. Item starts at 24:00 www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
Rob Eastaway
Rob Eastaway
Rob Eastaway
Rob Eastaway
Tim Harford investigates migration and housing, Welsh literacy, and bond market drama.
www.bbc.co.uk
correction, doors open 6:15, talk at 7pm
Last weekend, three mathematicians set up a history stall at the annual @histassoc.bsky.social conference.
Here's what happened next robeastaway.com/blog/history...
Tim Harford investigates migration and housing, Welsh literacy, and bond market drama.
www.bbc.co.uk
Imagine if numeracy were taught in history lessons.
So many great stories about how and why the Tudors switched from Roman to Indo Arabic numerals.
Here's the GCSE 'exam' that we circulated at the recent
@histassoc.bsky.social conference:
robeastaway.com/graphics/GCS...
#NationalNumeracyDay
I bloody love this!! As a tutor of both history and maths it's just brilliant.
