/discover/gallery/ Recent content in Gallery on Maths Inside Hugo -- gohugo.io en-GB Mon, 06 Jun 2022 00:00:00 +0000 /discover/gallery/20_second_water_wash_volume_76/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /discover/gallery/20_second_water_wash_volume_76/ /discover/gallery/5_star_symmetry/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /discover/gallery/5_star_symmetry/ /discover/gallery/5th_link_of_keplers_cosmigraphicum/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /discover/gallery/5th_link_of_keplers_cosmigraphicum/ /discover/gallery/a_clean_equation_21/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /discover/gallery/a_clean_equation_21/ /discover/gallery/a_different_perspective_1038/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /discover/gallery/a_different_perspective_1038/ /discover/gallery/2022-secondlevel-commended-completethepattern-a_farmer_in_hand/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /discover/gallery/2022-secondlevel-commended-completethepattern-a_farmer_in_hand/ For the third picture in the pattern we took this photo of me in Fin’s hand. The first image reminded me of farming that made me think that the second image is like the kind of boots you wear when on the farm when doing jobs. I am a farmer so I thought I should be in the third picture. /discover/gallery/2024-thirdfourthlevel-levelrunnerup-thewhyofshapes-a_geographical_equation/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /discover/gallery/2024-thirdfourthlevel-levelrunnerup-thewhyofshapes-a_geographical_equation/ Maps we take for granted have more within them the you may first think. The fact you may only need four colours to shade any given 2D map- a fact that stumped mathematicians till the 20th century. All maps we view (excluding globes) are slightly different to the real world, as we cannot ever completely project 3D to 2D - something must be warped. This has changed our view of the world, exaggerating the north and south; really showing the ‘why of shapes’ and maths inside the humble cartographer’s scroll. /discover/gallery/a_happy_boy_who_loves_to_learn/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /discover/gallery/a_happy_boy_who_loves_to_learn/ /discover/gallery/a_mathematical_melody_/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /discover/gallery/a_mathematical_melody_/ /discover/gallery/a_melody_of_parallel_lines/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /discover/gallery/a_melody_of_parallel_lines/ /discover/gallery/a_mountain_of_maths_509/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /discover/gallery/a_mountain_of_maths_509/ /discover/gallery/a_new_addition/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /discover/gallery/a_new_addition/ /discover/gallery/a_sea_of_hexagons/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /discover/gallery/a_sea_of_hexagons/ /discover/gallery/a_sunny_symmetry/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /discover/gallery/a_sunny_symmetry/ /discover/gallery/a_tower_of_bricks_50/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /discover/gallery/a_tower_of_bricks_50/ /discover/gallery/a_walk_with_a_calculated_view/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /discover/gallery/a_walk_with_a_calculated_view/ /discover/gallery/a_wrapper_made_from_potatoes_really_598/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /discover/gallery/a_wrapper_made_from_potatoes_really_598/ /discover/gallery/a_lot_of_pages_1059/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /discover/gallery/a_lot_of_pages_1059/ /discover/gallery/algorithms_in_action/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /discover/gallery/algorithms_in_action/ /discover/gallery/an_unexpected_game_of_angles/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /discover/gallery/an_unexpected_game_of_angles/ /discover/gallery/2023-secondlevel-levelrunnerup-thewhyofshapes-angels_share/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /discover/gallery/2023-secondlevel-levelrunnerup-thewhyofshapes-angels_share/ My Uncle (a cooper) works in a whisky distillery making casks, and I asked him why they are that shape, rather than cubes or straight cylinders. Whisky casks are a barrel with a bulge in the middle, called the bilge. The bilge helps the cooper make the barrel watertight. But its shape is also important for moving the barrels as it means you can roll and turn the barrel easily as there is less friction than for a box or cylinder, but it can still be stacked. /discover/gallery/angles_in_the_sky_/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /discover/gallery/angles_in_the_sky_/ /discover/gallery/ants_and_maths_1161/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /discover/gallery/ants_and_maths_1161/ /discover/gallery/2023-earlyyears-commended-inmotion-aon_dh%C3%A0_tr%C3%AC/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /discover/gallery/2023-earlyyears-commended-inmotion-aon_dh%C3%A0_tr%C3%AC/ Bha Fergus a cleachdadh abacus airson cunntadh gu deich. /discover/gallery/2023-secondlevel-categorywinner-ootanaboot-archaeology/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /discover/gallery/2023-secondlevel-categorywinner-ootanaboot-archaeology/ This is a picture of us doing archaeology on a school trip. I choose this picture because archaeologists have to use maths. They need to measure how deep they dig because the deeper you dig the older the things you find are. They measure where they find stuff and draw it on a map. They use scale drawing to do this. They need to be good at counting all their finds and they also use maths when doing geophysics of the site. /discover/gallery/2022-thirdfourthlevel-commended-thewhyofshapes-arches_arches_everywhere/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /discover/gallery/2022-thirdfourthlevel-commended-thewhyofshapes-arches_arches_everywhere/ Arches are everywhere — they are one of the strongest shapes. Most bridges are built with an arch as the pressure at the top is dispersed out equally on both sides to hold it up. The strength of an arch has been recognised for thousands of years and has been used in many civilisations to create buildings, transport, aqueduct. During the industrial revolution many railways were built across Scotland to transport goods and people. /discover/gallery/archway_reflection/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /discover/gallery/archway_reflection/ /discover/gallery/area_and_perimeter_in_my_garden_976/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /discover/gallery/area_and_perimeter_in_my_garden_976/ /discover/gallery/auld_bata/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /discover/gallery/auld_bata/ /discover/gallery/2023-earlyyears-commended-ootanaboot-autumn_hunt/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /discover/gallery/2023-earlyyears-commended-ootanaboot-autumn_hunt/ The children have had bags sent home with them to encourage them to count how many Autumnal items they could find. We were showing parents/carers and children that maths is easy. /discover/gallery/autumn_leaves_64/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /discover/gallery/autumn_leaves_64/ /discover/gallery/autumn_tide/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /discover/gallery/autumn_tide/ /discover/gallery/awesome_air_planes/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /discover/gallery/awesome_air_planes/ /discover/gallery/2023-thirdfourthlevel-levelrunnerup-thewhyofshapes-bakefficiency_the_art_of_tessellation/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /discover/gallery/2023-thirdfourthlevel-levelrunnerup-thewhyofshapes-bakefficiency_the_art_of_tessellation/ Baking is full of maths, but I took it one step further and created a baking challenge: to get the most biscuits cut from one roll of shortbread dough as possible. Using a hexagon cutter and tessellation, 22 biscuits were able to be cut on the first try with minimal scrappage. Using the right shape cutter was key. We call it Bakefficiency! /discover/gallery/bath_time_1151/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /discover/gallery/bath_time_1151/ /discover/gallery/2022-earlyyears-levelrunnerup-inthewild-beag_mor_meadhanach_mor/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /discover/gallery/2022-earlyyears-levelrunnerup-inthewild-beag_mor_meadhanach_mor/ Our Gaidhlig nursery picked the potatoes in our vegtable plot and then put them in order of size, starting with the smallest and finishing with the largest. Andrew was able to use gaidhlig language for ‘smallest’ (an tè as lugha) ‘biggest’ (an tè as motha) ‘medium’ (meadhanach mòr) /discover/gallery/2024-firstlevel-levelrunnerup-inthewild-beauty_found_in_nature_a_double_rainbow/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /discover/gallery/2024-firstlevel-levelrunnerup-inthewild-beauty_found_in_nature_a_double_rainbow/ I came out of the store restless, running and laughing. But as soon as I noticed there were not one but two rainbows (I hope you can see the second rainbow too), I became excited then silent. I stood amazed. I noticed the second rainbow is paler and the order of the colours a symmetry of the first rainbow. I didn’t want to leave. Later I asked how can there be two rainbows? /discover/gallery/2023-seniorphase-levelwinner-thewhyofshapes-beauty_of_bells/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /discover/gallery/2023-seniorphase-levelwinner-thewhyofshapes-beauty_of_bells/ Why are bells, well, bell-shaped? At first glance this seems a simple question, but there is a surprising amount of depth and beauty to the logic behind a bell. The bottom is usually round for three reasons. One, the circle is a much structurally stronger shape than, for example. a rectangle, preventing the bell from cracking when rung. Two, the rounded shape allows sound waves to bounce and travel along the perimeter. /discover/gallery/2023-secondlevel-categorywinner-inmotion-bee_tornadoes/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /discover/gallery/2023-secondlevel-categorywinner-inmotion-bee_tornadoes/ This is a picture of a bee. I wondered how they can fly when they have really small wings and a big body? I found out they have mini tornados on the edge of their wings. They stop them from stalling in the air and falling onto the ground, splat! The tornados help the bee angle their wings to get more lift. Scientists used mathematical models to find this out. /discover/gallery/bees_879/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /discover/gallery/bees_879/ /discover/gallery/2023-seniorphase-commended-inmotion-bells_woodpecker/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /discover/gallery/2023-seniorphase-commended-inmotion-bells_woodpecker/ To show Maths in Motion I have taken a photo of the Woodpecker in my Maths classroom a gift left behind by Mr Bell. It is a mechanical toy. It does not require a battery. To use it what you do to is pull the Woodpecker to the top of the metal pole. There is a spring attaching the Woodpecker to a rind round the metal pole. You pull back the Woodpecker in a direction away from the metal pole then release it. /discover/gallery/2023-secondlevel-commended-inmotion-bend_it_like_magnus/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /discover/gallery/2023-secondlevel-commended-inmotion-bend_it_like_magnus/ I love playing football and whenever I take a free kick and it curves I wonder ““Why do footballs curve?”“. Footballs curve when you ​put power and spin on the ball because the perpendicular force pushes the ball into a curve. Also when it is spinning the ball pulls more air to one side, creating more power at one side of the ball causing it to travel in an arc. This spinning effect is called the Magnus effect and can be calculated using algebra. /discover/gallery/big_cup_little_cup_532/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /discover/gallery/big_cup_little_cup_532/ /discover/gallery/bike_rack_hexagons/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /discover/gallery/bike_rack_hexagons/ /discover/gallery/bike_rack_tunnel/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /discover/gallery/bike_rack_tunnel/ /discover/gallery/2022-earlyyears-commended-thewhyofshapes-bing_bong_bang/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /discover/gallery/2022-earlyyears-commended-thewhyofshapes-bing_bong_bang/ How tall are the drums? They have circles on the top and make different sounds. I wonder if the size of them makes the noise different. /discover/gallery/bird_watching_187/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /discover/gallery/bird_watching_187/ /discover/gallery/2024-thirdfourthlevel-commended-inthewild-birdynamics/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /discover/gallery/2024-thirdfourthlevel-commended-inthewild-birdynamics/ Did you know birds wings flap with an up and down motion which propels them forward, but it is not just that. The wingspan in its entirety has to be at the right angle of attack and the wings twist automatically with each downward stroke. This allows the bird to be aligned with the direction of its chosen trajectory. Also, a bird’s wing produces lift and thrust during the downward stroke of the flap, the air is deflected downwards, and for the bird to move forward it also deflects it to the rear. /discover/gallery/blackberry_crumble/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /discover/gallery/blackberry_crumble/ /discover/gallery/2022-thirdfourthlevel-commended-inthewild-boats/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /discover/gallery/2022-thirdfourthlevel-commended-inthewild-boats/ In this picture you can see symmetry on the windows of the boats, numbers on the boats, patterns in the background, sea and boats. /discover/gallery/2023-earlyyears-commended-inmotion-boaty_bubbles/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /discover/gallery/2023-earlyyears-commended-inmotion-boaty_bubbles/ How slowly do the waves move in the wind? How far can the boats travel? How many bubbles can the propellers make? /discover/gallery/2022-secondlevel-commended-completethepattern-boy_on_a_buoy/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /discover/gallery/2022-secondlevel-commended-completethepattern-boy_on_a_buoy/ The first picture in the pattern looks like a tiny cow on top of a big cow, the second looks like a tiny man inside a boot but these are illusions. To make them you must put something as close to the camera as possible and then the other object is far away, positioned at the right angle to make it look like it is on top of, or inside, the near object. /discover/gallery/brick_wall/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /discover/gallery/brick_wall/ /discover/gallery/2022-secondlevel-commended-thewhyofshapes-bricks/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /discover/gallery/2022-secondlevel-commended-thewhyofshapes-bricks/ We collect bricks. Interesting bricks. There are lots if you take the time to look. Most, we’ve found by the river Kelvin when we are walking our dog. It started when we found a brick that had the same name as my school during lockdown. Can you spot it? This photo is of some of my favourite bricks that we’ve collected. They have different names. Sometimes the company that made them. /discover/gallery/bubbles/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /discover/gallery/bubbles/ /discover/gallery/2024-firstlevel-commended-inthewild-building_on_islay/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /discover/gallery/2024-firstlevel-commended-inthewild-building_on_islay/ My dad measures items in people’s houses. He uses a measuring tape and a metre stick. He has to make sure that the wood is perfectly level. He uses a spirit level to do this. He has to use his number skills to add, subtract, multiply and divide to make sure all his measurements are correct. /discover/gallery/bullseye_806/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /discover/gallery/bullseye_806/ /discover/gallery/2024-secondlevel-commended-inthewild-busy_bee/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /discover/gallery/2024-secondlevel-commended-inthewild-busy_bee/ While we were looking at the symmetrical sunflower, we saw a busy bee collecting pollen. We wondered how much pollen weighed and how much weight could the busy bee carry. From researching we found out a bee can collect 350f its body weight, we calculated this is roughly 15mg of pollen grain. We also found out that a bee can fly at speeds of 15mph and travel long distances to find pollen. /discover/gallery/butterfly__beyond_25/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /discover/gallery/butterfly__beyond_25/ /discover/gallery/cake_cubes/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /discover/gallery/cake_cubes/ /discover/gallery/cake_math_1235/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /discover/gallery/cake_math_1235/ /discover/gallery/2023-thirdfourthlevel-commended-ootanaboot-calculated_construction/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /discover/gallery/2023-thirdfourthlevel-commended-ootanaboot-calculated_construction/ I went to see the progress on the house that my gran is working on, and it got me thinking about how much maths is included in all this construction work. Wood gets measured so that it’s the right size. Bolts, nails and nuts are counted so that there is enough for things be secured in place. Paint is measured so that there is enough to brighten up the walls. ‘Area’ and ‘Perimeter’ need to be calculated for new flooring. /discover/gallery/2024-thirdfourthlevel-categorywinner-inthewild-calculating_lights_journey/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /discover/gallery/2024-thirdfourthlevel-categorywinner-inthewild-calculating_lights_journey/ Light travels at about 300,000 kilometers per second. To figure out how long it takes light from the sun to reach a planet, including Earth, I can use this formula: 𝑡=𝑑/𝑐 where 𝑡 = is the time it takes in seconds, 𝑑 = is the distance from the Sun to the planet in kilometers, 𝑐 = is the speed of light (300,000 km/s). Since Earth is about 149.6 million kilometers from the Sun, it takes light: /discover/gallery/2022-secondlevel-levelwinner-inthewild-can_a_dolphin_do_my_maths_homework/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /discover/gallery/2022-secondlevel-levelwinner-inthewild-can_a_dolphin_do_my_maths_homework/ ​This picture of a dolphin was taken on a boat off the coast of Islay. I know dolphins are clever, but I wondered if they could do my maths homework? I looked them up online and found out scientists have shown that if you put two different numbers of dots in front of trained dolphins they can point to the one that is less. You can’t do maths without knowing more or less. /discover/gallery/2024-thirdfourthlevel-commended-thewhyofshapes-car_wheels/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /discover/gallery/2024-thirdfourthlevel-commended-thewhyofshapes-car_wheels/ Car Wheels are a round circle shape, but would cars work with any other shapes as wheels? let’s find out! Squares and Triangles: Would Squares and Triangles work as wheels on a car? The answer is no. The car would be slow and bumpy and hard control. Ovals: Would Ovals work as a wheels on a car? The answer is no. Because the circumference of an oval is not consistent enough to rotate fully and make the car move. /discover/gallery/2023-secondlevel-commended-inmotion-car_or_ferry/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /discover/gallery/2023-secondlevel-commended-inmotion-car_or_ferry/ We live on the Island of Islay in Scotland and have to take a plane or ferry to travel to the mainland. We wanted to know if a bridge was built joining us to the mainland would it be quicker to drive or take the ferry. First we calculated the distance between Port Askaig and Kennecraig using an online map, it is 30 miles between the two ports. If we drove a car at 60 miles per hour it would take us 30 minutes to reach our destination. /discover/gallery/2024-anotherlevel-commended-inthewild-carbon_dating_how_old_is_this_fossil/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /discover/gallery/2024-anotherlevel-commended-inthewild-carbon_dating_how_old_is_this_fossil/ Radio-carbon dating is a scientific method that estimates the age of organic materials by measuring the proportion of carbon-14 they contain. Cosmic rays interact with nitrogen in the Earth’s atmosphere to create carbon-14, a radioactive isotope of carbon with a known time it takes to decay to half its amount (half life) of about 5,730 years. Living organisms absorb carbon-14 from the environment, which becomes incorporated into their bodies and bones. /discover/gallery/carbon_footprint_1111/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /discover/gallery/carbon_footprint_1111/ /discover/gallery/2022-earlyyears-levelwinner-inthewild-cat_face/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /discover/gallery/2022-earlyyears-levelwinner-inthewild-cat_face/ My cats face pattern is the same on both sides like a butterfly. Mummy says this is called symmetry. /discover/gallery/2022-firstlevel-commended-inthewild-ceistean_mu_ahraobhan_questions_about_trees/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /discover/gallery/2022-firstlevel-commended-inthewild-ceistean_mu_ahraobhan_questions_about_trees/ Ceistean mu chraobhan Coimhead mun cuairt, chì thu craobhan anns gach ait’. A bheil iad beag no mòr? A bheil iad tana to tiugh? Tiugainn! Thèid sinn uile a-muigh! Ceistean gu leòr ri fhreagairt an-diugh! Cia mheud duilleag a th’ orra? Ciamar a gheibh sinn a-mach? Dh’ fheuch sinn ri cunntadh, ach chaidh sinn uile ceàrr! Dè mu dheidhinn tuairmse? Cia mheud air gach geug? Uiread de na geugan, dh’obraich sin nas fheàrr! /discover/gallery/change_of_socks/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /discover/gallery/change_of_socks/ /discover/gallery/changing_scale_and_perspective/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /discover/gallery/changing_scale_and_perspective/ /discover/gallery/charing_cross_glasgow/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /discover/gallery/charing_cross_glasgow/ /discover/gallery/chase_rainbows_1266/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /discover/gallery/chase_rainbows_1266/ /discover/gallery/chill_time_in_the_sensory_room_466/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /discover/gallery/chill_time_in_the_sensory_room_466/ /discover/gallery/chips_chips__chips/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /discover/gallery/chips_chips__chips/ /discover/gallery/2024-secondlevel-commended-inthewild-choctastic_maths/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /discover/gallery/2024-secondlevel-commended-inthewild-choctastic_maths/ Chocolate is not only yummy but it also has maths in it! I was measuring the amount of ganache I needed for each mould. I had 125g of ganache and I wanted to split it into 8 moulds so I put 15.6g in each mould! /discover/gallery/2023-firstlevel-commended-thewhyofshapes-circle_selfie/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /discover/gallery/2023-firstlevel-commended-thewhyofshapes-circle_selfie/ I was making pots on my Mum’s pottery wheel when my little sister asked me to make her a square bowl. I showed her the circle wheel going round and round so fast with the porcelain and explained to her you can’t make square shapes on a circular wheel. /discover/gallery/2024-earlyyears-levelwinner-thewhyofshapes-circle_splash/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /discover/gallery/2024-earlyyears-levelwinner-thewhyofshapes-circle_splash/ I threw a big stone into the river and the big stone made a circle on the water. Then the splashes made lots of little circles! /discover/gallery/2022-firstlevel-commended-thewhyofshapes-circles/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /discover/gallery/2022-firstlevel-commended-thewhyofshapes-circles/ The coloured strips in this photo would all need to be measured using maths to fit together inside the circular shape. /discover/gallery/2024-anotherlevel-levelrunnerup-inthewild-circles_of_life/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /discover/gallery/2024-anotherlevel-levelrunnerup-inthewild-circles_of_life/ This tree had been cut down after being damaged by a storm. This picture shows the cross-section of the tree, and by counting the rings we can see just how old this tree is! What I find interesting is that although the thinner rings would suggest less growth in that year compared with the wider ones, we would need to calculate the height of the tree at the time (and therefore the volume) to truly understand its growth. /discover/gallery/clean_up_your_act_1205/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /discover/gallery/clean_up_your_act_1205/ /discover/gallery/2022-earlyyears-levelrunnerup-thewhyofshapes-close_up_cones/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /discover/gallery/2022-earlyyears-levelrunnerup-thewhyofshapes-close_up_cones/ Two children, aged 2 and 3, went collecting nature finds on a woodland walk and took a closer look at the shapes that were found were they triangles or diamonds, maybe both. /discover/gallery/2024-firstlevel-commended-inthewild-clouds/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /discover/gallery/2024-firstlevel-commended-inthewild-clouds/ For a long time, people have used the clouds to predict the weather. The picture is almost symmetrical with the two mountains on either side. /discover/gallery/clydeview/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /discover/gallery/clydeview/ /discover/gallery/coin_collision/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /discover/gallery/coin_collision/ /discover/gallery/colourful_maths_in_the_sky/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /discover/gallery/colourful_maths_in_the_sky/ /discover/gallery/2023-earlyyears-commended-ootanaboot-colourful_and_cozy/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /discover/gallery/2023-earlyyears-commended-ootanaboot-colourful_and_cozy/ A warm cozy hat for being oot an aboot on a beach while demonstrating the spectrum of colour and the use of pattern. /discover/gallery/combination_lock/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /discover/gallery/combination_lock/ /discover/gallery/complex_coding/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /discover/gallery/complex_coding/ /discover/gallery/computing_science_1103/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /discover/gallery/computing_science_1103/ /discover/gallery/concentric_circles_in_the_forest/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /discover/gallery/concentric_circles_in_the_forest/ /discover/gallery/conversion_visualisation_371/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /discover/gallery/conversion_visualisation_371/ /discover/gallery/countdown_to_cousin_1287/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /discover/gallery/countdown_to_cousin_1287/ /discover/gallery/counting_sheep_136/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /discover/gallery/counting_sheep_136/ /discover/gallery/2022-secondlevel-commended-completethepattern-cow_products/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /discover/gallery/2022-secondlevel-commended-completethepattern-cow_products/ We thought the link between the first two pictures was that the leather in the shoe is from a cow, we then thought about how to complete the pattern with another product from a cow. We get milk delivered to school each week and thought that we could use the bottle of milk (from a cow) to make a forced perspective image to complete the set of pictures. /discover/gallery/cow-nt_on_us_832/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /discover/gallery/cow-nt_on_us_832/ /discover/gallery/2022-thirdfourthlevel-levelwinner-completethepattern-cows_boot_kelpie_cuddle/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /discover/gallery/2022-thirdfourthlevel-levelwinner-completethepattern-cows_boot_kelpie_cuddle/ All three photos are taken with forced perspective, which uses angles and distance to make it appear like objects are close together, altering our perception of size and distance. The optical illusion takes advantage of our field of vision, which makes closer objects appear bigger. In the first photo, the photographer has used distance to make two similarly sized cows appear very different in size, and angle to make the further away cow appear as if it is sitting on top of the near cow. /discover/gallery/2023-earlyyears-commended-ootanaboot-crack_the_code/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /discover/gallery/2023-earlyyears-commended-ootanaboot-crack_the_code/ Look at these numbers ! They are a secret code so no one can open the gate unless they know the secret code. /discover/gallery/2023-secondlevel-commended-inmotion-crashing_waves/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /discover/gallery/2023-secondlevel-commended-inmotion-crashing_waves/ My Mum and I were walking the dog on the beach and we timed the waves crashing on the shore. I wondered how many waves would come onshore in a day. In 10 seconds I counted 5 waves coming onshore and I calculated that for 1 minute (6x5) 30 waves would come ashore. Next, I wanted to work out how many waves crashed in a day. I worked out that the number of waves in an hour would be 60 minutes x 30 = 1,800 and for a day would be 24 hours x 1,800 = 43,200! /discover/gallery/crochet/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /discover/gallery/crochet/ /discover/gallery/2022-thirdfourthlevel-levelrunnerup-thewhyofshapes-cubed_courtyard/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /discover/gallery/2022-thirdfourthlevel-levelrunnerup-thewhyofshapes-cubed_courtyard/ I took this photo of the famous Cubed Houses when I visited Rotterdam, in The Netherlands. I found it interesting and wondered why the architect who designed these houses chose to make them cubic. I did some research and found out that they were built in the 1970s according to the request of the town planners to have housing be built over a pedestrian bridge. The designer, Piet Blom, had already built houses with similar designs in the town of Helmand and wanted to recreate the design in Rotterdam. /discover/gallery/daily_cycling_582/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /discover/gallery/daily_cycling_582/ /discover/gallery/2023-secondlevel-commended-thewhyofshapes-dancing_into_shape/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /discover/gallery/2023-secondlevel-commended-thewhyofshapes-dancing_into_shape/ When I do Highland Dancing there is a lot of maths involved in what I do. One of them is geometry. Without it, dancers wouldn’t be able to make shapes with their body! Dancers need to think about being parallel to the floor with their body and making sure that their legs are straight (180 degrees). The rhythm of the music needs to be synchronised with the dancers movement, which involves counting and patterns. /discover/gallery/dandelion_clock/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /discover/gallery/dandelion_clock/ /discover/gallery/dart_board_1178/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /discover/gallery/dart_board_1178/ /discover/gallery/days_to_read_my_book/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /discover/gallery/days_to_read_my_book/ /discover/gallery/deconstruction_of_a_drink_1155/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /discover/gallery/deconstruction_of_a_drink_1155/ /discover/gallery/deep_blue_825/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /discover/gallery/deep_blue_825/ /discover/gallery/dice_scale_1297/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /discover/gallery/dice_scale_1297/ /discover/gallery/discovery/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /discover/gallery/discovery/ /discover/gallery/2023-secondlevel-commended-thewhyofshapes-distracting_refracting_reflecting_rainbows/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /discover/gallery/2023-secondlevel-commended-thewhyofshapes-distracting_refracting_reflecting_rainbows/ In a maths lesson I was distracted by this rainbow out of the class window. I wondered what maths makes the shape of a rainbow? Rainbows are all to do with angles. How you see a rainbow depends on where you are standing near the sun. Everyone sees a different rainbow depending on where they stand. So sometimes you see a semicircle and sometimes only part of the rainbow. Rainbows happen when the sunlight refracts in raindrops which slows down different wavelengths of light and splits them up into different colours. /discover/gallery/do_dandelions_do_maths_68/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /discover/gallery/do_dandelions_do_maths_68/ /discover/gallery/2022-thirdfourthlevel-commended-thewhyofshapes-dog_days/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /discover/gallery/2022-thirdfourthlevel-commended-thewhyofshapes-dog_days/ This is our dog Sukhi playing fetch with my brother. There is a lot of math and physics involved in throwing a ball for your dog. My brother likes to use the ball launcher because it is like an arm extension. He can thrown the ball further even when applying the same force because the radius of his swing is bigger. I’m older than him, have longer arms and am stronger so don’t need the ball launcher for distance. /discover/gallery/dont_count_your_fish_before_your_catch_856/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /discover/gallery/dont_count_your_fish_before_your_catch_856/ /discover/gallery/2023-secondlevel-commended-ootanaboot-dosing_sheep/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /discover/gallery/2023-secondlevel-commended-ootanaboot-dosing_sheep/ When I am out an about on the farm I do lots of maths like measuring feeding for the cows. Farmers also need a passport with a barcode for the cows to get sold and the cow’s ear tags are numbered to help farmers identify their cows. This is a sheep dosing gun for worming the sheep. You need maths to work out how much they should get of the medicine and how much medicine you need to have from a 2. /discover/gallery/down_in_time_515/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /discover/gallery/down_in_time_515/ /discover/gallery/2023-thirdfourthlevel-categorywinner-thewhyofshapes-drops_on_a_web/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /discover/gallery/2023-thirdfourthlevel-categorywinner-thewhyofshapes-drops_on_a_web/ Why are there rain drops on the cobweb but not on the grass? This is because the rate of evaporation is faster for a droplet on a blade of grass compared to a droplet on a cobweb. The theory suggests this is due to the water’s volume and surface area. If we agree that a cylinder and a sphere are comparable to the shapes of a drop of rain on a blade of grass and a drop of rain on a cobweb respectively, then we can look at the formula for the surface area of both droplets and divide by the volume of both droplets using a cylinder and a sphere’s formulae. /discover/gallery/dumfries_house/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /discover/gallery/dumfries_house/ /discover/gallery/early_risers_572/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /discover/gallery/early_risers_572/ /discover/gallery/eggs_and_soilders/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /discover/gallery/eggs_and_soilders/ /discover/gallery/2022-thirdfourthlevel-commended-thewhyofshapes-electronic_maths/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /discover/gallery/2022-thirdfourthlevel-commended-thewhyofshapes-electronic_maths/ I chose this picture because each of these devices have been made with maths and will use maths regularly. /discover/gallery/everybody_wins_984/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /discover/gallery/everybody_wins_984/ /discover/gallery/2022-secondlevel-levelrunnerup-inthewild-exercise_in_optimisation/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /discover/gallery/2022-secondlevel-levelrunnerup-inthewild-exercise_in_optimisation/ The photo represents the optimum way we could make the logs fit in the space. The picture is taken in my Grandpa’s wood store. /discover/gallery/exploring_angles_speed_and_distance/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /discover/gallery/exploring_angles_speed_and_distance/ /discover/gallery/2024-seniorphase-commended-inthewild-five/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /discover/gallery/2024-seniorphase-commended-inthewild-five/ Five is the only prime number that has the sum of two consecutive prime numbers (two and three), that exists. Five is the second Fermat prime (out of five), a Fibonacci number and, the third Mersenne prime exponent. The five rings pictured on the number are all circles with the same radius, diameter and, circumference as well. /discover/gallery/2023-firstlevel-commended-inmotion-falling_test/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /discover/gallery/2023-firstlevel-commended-inmotion-falling_test/ My photo shows a pompom and a feather falling down. The pompom is falling faster than the feather. Maths can tell me how fast each object falls and how much faster the pompom falls. The pompom is faster than the feather because the feather has lots of fluffy, sticky out bits on which the air gets trapped (so more air resistance) and the pompom is round and compact (less air resistance). /discover/gallery/farmer_pascal/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /discover/gallery/farmer_pascal/ /discover/gallery/2022-secondlevel-categorywinner-inthewild-ferny_fractals/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /discover/gallery/2022-secondlevel-categorywinner-inthewild-ferny_fractals/ This is a picture of a fern from the school grounds. I know that the fern has bilateral symmetry, which means if you put a mirror inbetween the leaf it will look the same on both sides. Even more exciting if you look at the fern closely the pattern keeps repeating and getting smaller like it never ends. This is a fractal — a shape that looks the same as it gets smaller and smaller. /discover/gallery/fibonacci_rose/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /discover/gallery/fibonacci_rose/ /discover/gallery/fibonacci_seashell_250/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /discover/gallery/fibonacci_seashell_250/ /discover/gallery/2022-thirdfourthlevel-levelrunnerup-inthewild-fibonacci_spirals/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /discover/gallery/2022-thirdfourthlevel-levelrunnerup-inthewild-fibonacci_spirals/ Did you know that if you count opposing spirals on most pinecones, they add to two Fibonacci numbers? From the stalk at the base, count one clockwise spiral and one anticlockwise spiral. These two numbers will be two consecutive Fibonacci numbers. /discover/gallery/finite_523/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /discover/gallery/finite_523/ /discover/gallery/fire_in_the_sky_464/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /discover/gallery/fire_in_the_sky_464/ /discover/gallery/fireworks/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /discover/gallery/fireworks/ /discover/gallery/fitness_and_maths_949/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /discover/gallery/fitness_and_maths_949/ /discover/gallery/2024-secondlevel-commended-thewhyofshapes-five_little_monkeys_swinging_on_bars/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /discover/gallery/2024-secondlevel-commended-thewhyofshapes-five_little_monkeys_swinging_on_bars/ Why Can’t Monkey Bars Be Other Shapes? Have you ever wondered why monkey bars are the shape they are? Let’s think about it! If monkey bars were shaped like triangles, they would be too pointy for hanging. It would be really uncomfortable! If they were spheres, the bars would just spin around, making it hard to hold on. Using 2D shapes wouldn’t work either. For example, if the bars were rectangles like the ones on the sides, they wouldn’t be sturdy enough for swinging. /discover/gallery/flicks_chicken_pi/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /discover/gallery/flicks_chicken_pi/ /discover/gallery/2023-secondlevel-levelrunnerup-inmotion-flick_onometry/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /discover/gallery/2023-secondlevel-levelrunnerup-inmotion-flick_onometry/ The maths behind a rainbow flick is complex; you have to be able to calculate speed, height, and timing of your feet to lift the football. For many fans and players around the world, it all adds up to be a form of art. /discover/gallery/flower_calendar_226/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /discover/gallery/flower_calendar_226/ /discover/gallery/flying_my_kite/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /discover/gallery/flying_my_kite/ /discover/gallery/2022-firstlevel-categorywinner-thewhyofshapes-focusing_through_shape/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /discover/gallery/2022-firstlevel-categorywinner-thewhyofshapes-focusing_through_shape/ The Optician said my lenses are convex in shape. I am long-sighted so this shape helps to bend the rays of light slightly inwards and into focus for me sooner than they normally would to help me see better. My glasses are so special to me as without this shape of lens things would seem very blurry! /discover/gallery/football_maths/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /discover/gallery/football_maths/ /discover/gallery/2023-secondlevel-commended-thewhyofshapes-football_a_shapes_game/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /discover/gallery/2023-secondlevel-commended-thewhyofshapes-football_a_shapes_game/ This photo shows fusion of my two favourite things — maths and football. This football is a truncated icosahedron, an Archimedean solid, and a world famous shape. Tessellated with 32 faces - 20 hexagons and 12 pentagons — it has 60 vertices and 90 edges. It isn’t the only way to tessellate a football, but it is the classic. You could also use irregular pentagons and triangles, like the World Cup ball. /discover/gallery/2023-seniorphase-commended-ootanaboot-formulas_in_foliage/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /discover/gallery/2023-seniorphase-commended-ootanaboot-formulas_in_foliage/ It is hard to imagine, but the trees we see everywhere in our lives, static though they seem, are constantly moving, constantly growing. They simply grow so slowly that by our perceptions, they look as immobile as stone. So how do we measure the speed a tree grows? The easiest way is to measure its height at one point in time, then check back later to measure it again. To find the rate of growth you would divide the height it has grown by the time which has elapsed. /discover/gallery/2022-anotherlevel-levelrunnerup-thewhyofshapes-forth_bridges/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /discover/gallery/2022-anotherlevel-levelrunnerup-thewhyofshapes-forth_bridges/ A close up of underneath the Forth Road Bridge — the strength of the arch shape means it is a common shape on bridges. In the distance we can see a very different bridge design, used on the Queensferry Crossing. /discover/gallery/four_oranges/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /discover/gallery/four_oranges/ /discover/gallery/fractals/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /discover/gallery/fractals/ /discover/gallery/2024-thirdfourthlevel-commended-inthewild-fractals_in_nature/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /discover/gallery/2024-thirdfourthlevel-commended-inthewild-fractals_in_nature/ This Romano cauliflower is a perfect example of fractals in nature. A fractal is a geometrical shape that self repeats over and over again and is an exact replica. The first ever fractal was discovered in 1918 by a man called Felix Hausdorff but fractals weren’t named so yet. It wasn’t until 1980 when “The Mandelbrot Set”was drawn by a French American mathematician called Benoit Mandelbrot. Fractals aquired their name from the Latin “fractus” which means “broken”from Mandelbrot. /discover/gallery/fractional_melodies_157/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /discover/gallery/fractional_melodies_157/ /discover/gallery/fragmented_reflection_888/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /discover/gallery/fragmented_reflection_888/ /discover/gallery/fretboard_981/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /discover/gallery/fretboard_981/ /discover/gallery/frilly_fractal/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /discover/gallery/frilly_fractal/ /discover/gallery/fruit_bowl_1182/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /discover/gallery/fruit_bowl_1182/ /discover/gallery/gairloch_beach/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /discover/gallery/gairloch_beach/ /discover/gallery/generating_power_643/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /discover/gallery/generating_power_643/ /discover/gallery/2024-secondlevel-levelrunnerup-inthewild-geometree/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /discover/gallery/2024-secondlevel-levelrunnerup-inthewild-geometree/ There are lots of different ways to apply maths with trees. How tall is the tree? How can we measure it? How many years has it stood there? How many people have passed the tree in it’s lifetime? How would we calculate this? Could we record how many people pass it in one day, or a week or a month or over a whole year? What time of year is it? /discover/gallery/geometric_reflection/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /discover/gallery/geometric_reflection/ /discover/gallery/2022-secondlevel-commended-inthewild-geometry_in_nature/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /discover/gallery/2022-secondlevel-commended-inthewild-geometry_in_nature/ I can see red, yellow, brown. Look at the leaves on the ground. Geometry is all around us, just waiting to be found! /discover/gallery/2023-secondlevel-commended-inmotion-get_your_timing_right/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /discover/gallery/2023-secondlevel-commended-inmotion-get_your_timing_right/ Tides go in and out. You two high tides in 24 hours. I need to know this for my sailing. The rule of 12 shows me that the water will be flowing the fastest in the 3rd and 4th hours therefore the strongest tide will happen then. Slack tide is the 1st and 6th hours when the water is flowing the least. /discover/gallery/2023-seniorphase-commended-ootanaboot-glasgow_central_station_clock/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /discover/gallery/2023-seniorphase-commended-ootanaboot-glasgow_central_station_clock/ This is the clock at Glasgow Central Station. Clocks are divided into 12 hours and 60 minutes as those numbers are easy to divide into smaller numbers and have a lot of factors, such as 6,4, 3, and 2 for 12 and 30, 20, 15, 12, 10, 6, 5, 4, 3, and 2 for 60. The railways are closely linked to clocks because before the railways clocks simply observed local time, whereas now due to the need for national unity and standardisation brought by the railway time is collected into time zones, with all of the UK using time at Greenwich in London. /discover/gallery/2023-firstlevel-commended-inmotion-golfing_around/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /discover/gallery/2023-firstlevel-commended-inmotion-golfing_around/ When I play golf, I am always focussed on the numbers! These tell me how far and how fast my golf shots are. This is maths in motion. The computer works out the motion of my golf ball to give me my stats of distance and speed. /discover/gallery/2023-firstlevel-commended-inmotion-golfing_with_maths/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /discover/gallery/2023-firstlevel-commended-inmotion-golfing_with_maths/ Maths is used all the time in the game of Golf. Each player uses maths to count their score after each hole and at the end of the game. Players also use maths to work out the distance of each hole and what club should be used. Golf coaches also use maths to analyse players swings and help them to improve. /discover/gallery/2022-seniorphase-commended-completethepattern-green/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /discover/gallery/2022-seniorphase-commended-completethepattern-green/ In my photo, you can see the detailed geometric structure of the leaf. It’s made up of trapezium which fit together. There are different kinds of trapezium; a right-angled trapezium which has two adjacent right angles, an acute is the same but with two adjacent acute angles, an obtuse trapezium has one acute and obtuse angle on its longer base. You can also see the parallel veins of the leaf running from the the centre to the edge. /discover/gallery/2022-seniorphase-commended-completethepattern-green_grass/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /discover/gallery/2022-seniorphase-commended-completethepattern-green_grass/ The red–blue made me think of RGB colour values that create colour for our phone screens and monitors. So grass made sense as it is green and in the wild. /discover/gallery/grid_of_shadows/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /discover/gallery/grid_of_shadows/ /discover/gallery/2024-earlyyears-commended-inthewild-growing_maths/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /discover/gallery/2024-earlyyears-commended-inthewild-growing_maths/ I am growing strawberries in my garden. This strawberry is a love heart shape. I noticed this strawberry because it is half green and half red. Only half of the strawberry has ripened so far, and I wonder why? /discover/gallery/2023-seniorphase-commended-thewhyofshapes-guitar/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /discover/gallery/2023-seniorphase-commended-thewhyofshapes-guitar/ The shape of everything on a guitar has a purpose. strings are straight until they’re strum or plucked, then they vibrate as sine waves. The body of the guitar is specially shaped to allow the sound waves to resonate inside. The shape of the hole is not important — it’s just there to let the sound out. A circle for this is the simplest shape mathematically, and looks the neatest. /discover/gallery/hair_raising_110/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /discover/gallery/hair_raising_110/ /discover/gallery/2023-firstlevel-commended-ootanaboot-hairy_maths/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /discover/gallery/2023-firstlevel-commended-ootanaboot-hairy_maths/ On Sunday, I re-styled my hair. My mum had partitioned it into four big sections, can you see them? She further divided each of the big sections into about 5 smaller portions. I usually do not like having my hair re-styled and I needed to know how long it would take her to complete it. She told me she took about 10 minutes on one small portion. That means, 50 minutes for a section, ‘Oh no! /discover/gallery/2022-thirdfourthlevel-commended-inthewild-hello_cow_number_200006/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /discover/gallery/2022-thirdfourthlevel-commended-inthewild-hello_cow_number_200006/ Farmers register their cows with tags so that every cow can be traced back to the farm it came from. /discover/gallery/hexagon/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /discover/gallery/hexagon/ /discover/gallery/hexagonal_bubbles_1238/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /discover/gallery/hexagonal_bubbles_1238/ /discover/gallery/2022-earlyyears-commended-thewhyofshapes-hexagons_take_over/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /discover/gallery/2022-earlyyears-commended-thewhyofshapes-hexagons_take_over/ Look there is a pattern covering the tub. I wonder how the hexagons are made? I wonder where else we might find them. I think bees like hexagons too. /discover/gallery/2024-thirdfourthlevel-commended-thewhyofshapes-hexagons_on_turtles/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /discover/gallery/2024-thirdfourthlevel-commended-thewhyofshapes-hexagons_on_turtles/ Turtles have hexagon shapes all over them called scutes. Turtles have these hexagonal scutes for a few reasons. Efficient packing is one, hexagons are one of the most efficient shapes for covering a surface with minimal gaps. Hexagons often appear in structures like honey comb because they are strong and efficient. The scutes on a turtle help creat a strong, continuous, protective surface for a turtles shell. The scutes also help distribute pressure and stress evenly across the turtles shell, this makes the shell strong and resilient. /discover/gallery/hidden_maths_519/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /discover/gallery/hidden_maths_519/ /discover/gallery/2022-thirdfourthlevel-commended-thewhyofshapes-hiding_in_the_trees/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /discover/gallery/2022-thirdfourthlevel-commended-thewhyofshapes-hiding_in_the_trees/ Although these ““branches”” don’t connect in real life, I can use different photography angles to make them appear as if they do connect. There are many polygons in this seemingly random tree sculpture. Polygons with convex and concave angles. There are triangles, quadrilaterals, pentagons, hexagons, heptagons, nonagons, decagons and maybe you can spot more. /discover/gallery/2023-secondlevel-commended-inmotion-highland_dancing/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /discover/gallery/2023-secondlevel-commended-inmotion-highland_dancing/ Highland Dancing is an important hobby of mine. When I dance I have to make sure that I have my feet in the correct positions and that I travel to show movement. I also have to count how many beats there are in specific steps and make sure I keep in time to the music. /discover/gallery/2023-firstlevel-commended-thewhyofshapes-highland_dancing_patterns/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /discover/gallery/2023-firstlevel-commended-thewhyofshapes-highland_dancing_patterns/ My show outfit is tartan because it’s a Scottish thing. I can see squares in the tartan and it makes a pattern with red, white, red, white. /discover/gallery/2023-anotherlevel-levelwinner-thewhyofshapes-hollow_mask_illusion/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /discover/gallery/2023-anotherlevel-levelwinner-thewhyofshapes-hollow_mask_illusion/ This image shows the observe side of a mask that has been painted to showcase a face. When people see the reverse side of a mask, they are usually unable to perceive it as concave or a hollow face, but instead see a convex regular face as seen in this image. This illusion is a classic example of how brain uses its top-down expectations to shape visual perception. The ““Predictive coding account of perceptual inference”” suggests that brain has a model of the world and this generates an expectation of how things should look which is used to explain the visual input it receives. /discover/gallery/2022-firstlevel-commended-inthewild-honey_hexagons/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /discover/gallery/2022-firstlevel-commended-inthewild-honey_hexagons/ Worker bees build hexagons in their hives as they fit together perfectly and can store the most amount of honey and eggs. The queen can lay up to 2,000 eggs per day so she needs good storage! The way that hexagons fit together is called Hexagonal Tessellation. /discover/gallery/2023-thirdfourthlevel-levelwinner-inmotion-how_does_an_airplane_use_maths/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /discover/gallery/2023-thirdfourthlevel-levelwinner-inmotion-how_does_an_airplane_use_maths/ For an airplane to fly the shape of the wings and the body is crucial. Not just that, an airplane uses a lots of maths. That’s why If you are a pilot you should have a good knowledge in maths. The shape of the plane is called the streamlined shape. Both fish and birds have this body shape. The pointy nose of the plane helps it to go through air. You might have noticed when there is a pointy front you can move it easily. /discover/gallery/2024-anotherlevel-levelrunnerup-inthewild-how_long_ago_did_the_mammoths_roam_the_earth/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /discover/gallery/2024-anotherlevel-levelrunnerup-inthewild-how_long_ago_did_the_mammoths_roam_the_earth/ Radio-Carbon dating is a method for determining the age of organic materials like fossils by measuring the amount of carbon-14 in them. Carbon-14 is a radioactive isotope of carbon that’s produced in the atmosphere by the interaction of carbon isotopes with solar radiation and free neutrons. When an organism dies, it stops absorbing carbon and the carbon-14 in its body begins to decay into other atoms over time. Carbon-14 has a half-life of 5,730 years, which means that half of its carbon-14 atoms decay into nitrogen atoms over that period. /discover/gallery/how_many_bottles/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /discover/gallery/how_many_bottles/ /discover/gallery/how_many_bricks/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /discover/gallery/how_many_bricks/ /discover/gallery/2022-seniorphase-commended-inthewild-how_much_hay/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /discover/gallery/2022-seniorphase-commended-inthewild-how_much_hay/ How much hay should you feed a horse? Horses should consume 20f their body weight per day according to their workload and condition. 700f the 2hould consist of forage like grass and hay. So if your horse weighs 500kg they need around 10 kg of food per day. This can be managed by weighing hay and calculating the intake of how much a horse is eating to manage their diet and to stop conditions like obesity and laminitis occurring. /discover/gallery/how_our_garden_grows_1168/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /discover/gallery/how_our_garden_grows_1168/ /discover/gallery/id_numbers/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /discover/gallery/id_numbers/ /discover/gallery/2022-anotherlevel-commended-completethepattern-ice_cream_cloud/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /discover/gallery/2022-anotherlevel-commended-completethepattern-ice_cream_cloud/ The pattern that links the photos is the use of perspective to play with size. From looking online, I think the clouds are maybe 18km away from the cone. It was impossible to get both the cone and the ““ice cream”” in focus so I picked the ice cream! /discover/gallery/interesting_game_of_uno/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /discover/gallery/interesting_game_of_uno/ /discover/gallery/2022-seniorphase-commended-completethepattern-it_was_all_yellow/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /discover/gallery/2022-seniorphase-commended-completethepattern-it_was_all_yellow/ In the prime of life, to complete the pattern I completed the three prime colours — Red, Blue and Yellow. The different angles of the pieces of paper are all layered on top of each other so that all three of the main angles can be seen, right angles, acute angles and obtuse angles. /discover/gallery/its_raining_741/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /discover/gallery/its_raining_741/ /discover/gallery/jump_108/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /discover/gallery/jump_108/ /discover/gallery/2022-secondlevel-commended-thewhyofshapes-keep_the_ball_rolling_or_not/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /discover/gallery/2022-secondlevel-commended-thewhyofshapes-keep_the_ball_rolling_or_not/ Do you know why most balls including a football are spherical yet a rugby ball is an oval shape? Initially it is thought rugby balls were made from pigs bladders which are not spherical. Rugby is a game played mostly by holding and running with and then passing the ball, therefore the ball needs to be aerodynamic and to be easy to grip. The oval shape of the ball lends itself to being held easier than a spherical shape. /discover/gallery/last_cell_839/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /discover/gallery/last_cell_839/ /discover/gallery/layering_up_459/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /discover/gallery/layering_up_459/ /discover/gallery/learning_in_lockdown_through_the_eyes_of_a_4_year_old/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /discover/gallery/learning_in_lockdown_through_the_eyes_of_a_4_year_old/ /discover/gallery/leaves_underfoot_314/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /discover/gallery/leaves_underfoot_314/ /discover/gallery/2023-earlyyears-commended-inmotion-leaves_without_gravity/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /discover/gallery/2023-earlyyears-commended-inmotion-leaves_without_gravity/ We spotted big piles of leaves while walking around outside recently. They were fun to throw in the air. In photos the leaves look as though they’re not in motion at all — do they fall down fast or slow? /discover/gallery/lego_1265/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /discover/gallery/lego_1265/ /discover/gallery/life_cycle_of_a_tomato/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /discover/gallery/life_cycle_of_a_tomato/ /discover/gallery/light_bending_1278/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /discover/gallery/light_bending_1278/ /discover/gallery/2022-secondlevel-commended-inthewild-light_and_dark/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /discover/gallery/2022-secondlevel-commended-inthewild-light_and_dark/ I found a ratio. There were 4 light tree trunks and 7 dark tree trunks, so I done light tree to dark tree trunks which was 4:7. I also noticed that in the light tree trunk they are in pairs of two. There was one more tree trunk and if the 3 groups of tree trunks were connected, it would make a right-angled triangle. /discover/gallery/light_vs_heavy_800/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /discover/gallery/light_vs_heavy_800/ /discover/gallery/lights_patterns_285/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /discover/gallery/lights_patterns_285/ /discover/gallery/locks_and_a_duck_982/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /discover/gallery/locks_and_a_duck_982/ /discover/gallery/look_mummy_a_circle/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /discover/gallery/look_mummy_a_circle/ /discover/gallery/looking_after_the_planet_1114/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /discover/gallery/looking_after_the_planet_1114/ /discover/gallery/2024-secondlevel-commended-inthewild-lorry_logistics/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /discover/gallery/2024-secondlevel-commended-inthewild-lorry_logistics/ I really like lorries and would like to be a lorry driver when I grow up. This is a photo from Truckfest and I wondered what maths you need to be a lorry driver. You need to know fuel costs and how to plan a route that is fuel efficient and how many miles you have driven. Recording your time driving and your breaks is part of the job, as is knowing the weights of your cargo and how much you can fit and how to store it efficiently. /discover/gallery/2022-secondlevel-commended-inthewild-luck_of_the_irish/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /discover/gallery/2022-secondlevel-commended-inthewild-luck_of_the_irish/ My brother’s friend found a four-leaf clover. I thought they were a myth. Now I’m looking for one too, but I haven’t found one yet. I’ve done some research. I learned that the number of leaves on a clover is decided by genetics. The genes that make four leaf clovers are recessive. Four-leaf clovers are less common that three-leaf clovers. Three-leaf clovers have dominant genes. I learned that 1 in every 10,000 clovers has four leaves. /discover/gallery/2024-seniorphase-commended-thewhyofshapes-lucky/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /discover/gallery/2024-seniorphase-commended-thewhyofshapes-lucky/ The four leaf clovers shape is also known as a Quadrifolium; a type of rose curve with an angular frequency of 2. A clover with four petals is a genetic mutation with naturally finding one having a 0.020hance. /discover/gallery/2023-earlyyears-commended-ootanaboot-market_day/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /discover/gallery/2023-earlyyears-commended-ootanaboot-market_day/ I hear lots of numbers from the auctioneer, they go up and up, I wonder how much I will get for my sheep. /discover/gallery/math_used_to_build_the_towns_we_live_in_/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /discover/gallery/math_used_to_build_the_towns_we_live_in_/ /discover/gallery/2024-secondlevel-levelrunnerup-inthewild-math_in_leaf/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /discover/gallery/2024-secondlevel-levelrunnerup-inthewild-math_in_leaf/ We can see math in fractals found in leaves. A fractal is a never-ending geometric pattern. In a fractal, a pattern is repeated in the same way, appearing as smaller and smaller versions. If you see the vein in the middle of the leaf paying attention to how it divides the leaf in half. Now look a bit closer at the 1st level of fractals. veins that break off into a 2nd level of fractals and if you see more closer you will see 3rd level of fractals which are more smaller /discover/gallery/math_in_music_156/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /discover/gallery/math_in_music_156/ /discover/gallery/mathcraft_1207/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /discover/gallery/mathcraft_1207/ /discover/gallery/2022-earlyyears-commended-inthewild-mathematical_beauty_of_flowers/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /discover/gallery/2022-earlyyears-commended-inthewild-mathematical_beauty_of_flowers/ Symmetry in nature can be seen all around us and the beauty of flowers has multiple lines of symmetry. /discover/gallery/mathematical_daisy/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /discover/gallery/mathematical_daisy/ /discover/gallery/2023-firstlevel-commended-inmotion-maths_at_sea/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /discover/gallery/2023-firstlevel-commended-inmotion-maths_at_sea/ My dad works on a boat. He has to make sure that sea is deep in the areas he sails. He uses the controls and graphs on his boat to see the depth of the sea. He also has to use a compass to see if he is moving in the right direction. /discover/gallery/maths_fun_and_games_1276/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /discover/gallery/maths_fun_and_games_1276/ /discover/gallery/maths_in_making_cup_of_tea_and_or_coffee_1254/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /discover/gallery/maths_in_making_cup_of_tea_and_or_coffee_1254/ /discover/gallery/maths_in_p.e./ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /discover/gallery/maths_in_p.e./ /discover/gallery/maths_inside_around_us/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /discover/gallery/maths_inside_around_us/ /discover/gallery/maths_inside_dance/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /discover/gallery/maths_inside_dance/ /discover/gallery/maths_inside_home_1274/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /discover/gallery/maths_inside_home_1274/ /discover/gallery/maths_inside_me/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /discover/gallery/maths_inside_me/ /discover/gallery/maths_inside_a_storage_box/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /discover/gallery/maths_inside_a_storage_box/ /discover/gallery/maths_inside_the_bottles_/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /discover/gallery/maths_inside_the_bottles_/ /discover/gallery/maths_on_the_moon_460/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /discover/gallery/maths_on_the_moon_460/ /discover/gallery/maths_in_animation_257/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /discover/gallery/maths_in_animation_257/ /discover/gallery/2022-earlyyears-commended-inthewild-maths_in_playing_keyboards/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /discover/gallery/2022-earlyyears-commended-inthewild-maths_in_playing_keyboards/ There is Mathematics in music and in playing piano. All the notes are numbers , and it tells what key to play the notes at ,it also tells the tempo, we have 4 bar, 8 bars, etc. I enjoyed playing the keyboard and likes the rhythm per minutes that goes with playing the keyboard for example slow beat could be 1,2,3,4… 1,2,3,4… /discover/gallery/2023-thirdfourthlevel-commended-thewhyofshapes-maths_in_radiators/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /discover/gallery/2023-thirdfourthlevel-commended-thewhyofshapes-maths_in_radiators/ Maths appears in radiators in many aspects. By adding dimples, they maximize the surface area in contact with the air to heat up the room. Angles also play a role in radiators by changing the way heat circulates in a room. Getting the angle just right is like a little math secret for ensuring optimal warmth. /discover/gallery/maths_in_skateboarding_807/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /discover/gallery/maths_in_skateboarding_807/ /discover/gallery/maths_in_smartphone_1289/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /discover/gallery/maths_in_smartphone_1289/ /discover/gallery/2023-thirdfourthlevel-commended-inmotion-maths_in_table_tennis/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /discover/gallery/2023-thirdfourthlevel-commended-inmotion-maths_in_table_tennis/ In the land of mathematics, spin in table tennis can be thought of as angular momentum. It involves the rotation or spinning of the ball around its axis as it moves through the air. There are two primary types of spin: Topspin: When a player imparts topspin to the ball, they increase its angular momentum in the forward direction. This means the ball rotates forward while moving, causing it to dip and bounce lower when it hits the table due to the increased downward force. /discover/gallery/maths_in_a_card_game_569/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /discover/gallery/maths_in_a_card_game_569/ /discover/gallery/maths_in_the_moon_light_95/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /discover/gallery/maths_in_the_moon_light_95/ /discover/gallery/maths_in_the_park_927/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /discover/gallery/maths_in_the_park_927/ /discover/gallery/maths_in_the_rain_/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /discover/gallery/maths_in_the_rain_/ /discover/gallery/maths_in_the_shadow_of_the_pandemic_446/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /discover/gallery/maths_in_the_shadow_of_the_pandemic_446/ /discover/gallery/2022-seniorphase-levelrunnerup-completethepattern-maths_is_art/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /discover/gallery/2022-seniorphase-levelrunnerup-completethepattern-maths_is_art/ I feel that my picture resolves the sequence for two reasons. Firstly, I noticed that each picture had an involvement with water. My picture displays similar quantities of water to the first picture, making that a part of the sequence. I also chose the colour scheme of my picture based on the fact that maths and art are closely interlinked. The core skills needed for both art and maths are closely related, for instance; geometry, shape, symmetry and proportion. /discover/gallery/measuring_wall_1043/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /discover/gallery/measuring_wall_1043/ /discover/gallery/measuring_yew/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /discover/gallery/measuring_yew/ /discover/gallery/measuring_the_speed_of_a_river_928/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /discover/gallery/measuring_the_speed_of_a_river_928/ /discover/gallery/mental_workout_640/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /discover/gallery/mental_workout_640/ /discover/gallery/mini_tsunami_162/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /discover/gallery/mini_tsunami_162/ /discover/gallery/2024-firstlevel-categorywinner-thewhyofshapes-mirror_magic/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /discover/gallery/2024-firstlevel-categorywinner-thewhyofshapes-mirror_magic/ How come there are so many me’s when there are less yous? It was because I was standing close to the mirror and my mum was standing further back. I explored further. What happens when the doors are fully open and very close together? What happens when you start to close the doors? It changes the number or width of reflections. What happens if they are equal on both sides? What happens when one side is open further than the other? /discover/gallery/2022-anotherlevel-levelbestcommentary-thewhyofshapes-mirror_mirror/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /discover/gallery/2022-anotherlevel-levelbestcommentary-thewhyofshapes-mirror_mirror/ This sculpture in Austria, over 4 metres high, was inspired by the crystalline forms of the local glacier. It is always a reflection of its surroundings thanks to its many triangular reflective surfaces made from polished stainless steel creating plane mirrors and thus adapts to any light and weather situation. People in motion, vehicles driving by, clouds passing by and leaves carried by the wind make the sculpture a living installation. /discover/gallery/mirrored_gold_834/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /discover/gallery/mirrored_gold_834/ /discover/gallery/2023-firstlevel-commended-ootanaboot-missing_shells/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /discover/gallery/2023-firstlevel-commended-ootanaboot-missing_shells/ One Sunday we went to the beach where there were masses of shells. It looked like there was a million of them. I collected 126 shells and took them home. Now there are 999874 shells left on the beach. /discover/gallery/mobile_phone/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /discover/gallery/mobile_phone/ /discover/gallery/money/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /discover/gallery/money/ /discover/gallery/money_counts_639/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /discover/gallery/money_counts_639/ /discover/gallery/money_money_money/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /discover/gallery/money_money_money/ /discover/gallery/monopoly_124/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /discover/gallery/monopoly_124/ /discover/gallery/2022-thirdfourthlevel-commended-inthewild-moo_moo_maths/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /discover/gallery/2022-thirdfourthlevel-commended-inthewild-moo_moo_maths/ We can use maths to figure out how much food a cow needs. Other uses of maths to do with cows are: in cow farming, maths is used to identify how much money you would spend on a cow– for example vet bills, which you would need to add up all the cows that need help; maths is also needed to weigh cows and measure them to tell how many cows can fit in a vehicle with a certain weight capacity; and we go back to food. /discover/gallery/2024-thirdfourthlevel-commended-inthewild-morning_bus/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /discover/gallery/2024-thirdfourthlevel-commended-inthewild-morning_bus/ Each day I got on the bus at the same stop and noted the time.Then I noted the time at each bus stop on my route to school. I compared my timings to the bus time table to see if the bus was early,on time or late. /discover/gallery/2023-firstlevel-levelwinner-inmotion-motion_equals_power/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /discover/gallery/2023-firstlevel-levelwinner-inmotion-motion_equals_power/ This photo was taken at Whitelee Windfarm, I lay on the ground under turbine number 40 to take it. There are 215 turbines at the Windfarm, generating enough electricity to power 350,000 homes — so motion really does equal power! /discover/gallery/mr_ks_maths_challenge_from_s4_1133/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /discover/gallery/mr_ks_maths_challenge_from_s4_1133/ /discover/gallery/mul-tile-plication/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /discover/gallery/mul-tile-plication/ /discover/gallery/musical_maths_jars/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /discover/gallery/musical_maths_jars/ /discover/gallery/2024-seniorphase-levelrunnerup-thewhyofshapes-my_3d_house/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /discover/gallery/2024-seniorphase-levelrunnerup-thewhyofshapes-my_3d_house/ I have created a model house using a range of magnetic shapes. Smaller scale models can be used in design situations before making a real structure as it allows the planners to see what it looks before the expense of money and time making the real thing. With more advanced technology modeling can be done using software. In the past for example ship building model ships were made as not everyone for example wealthy ship owners could understand the 2D technical drawings . /discover/gallery/my_47_apple_tree/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /discover/gallery/my_47_apple_tree/ /discover/gallery/2024-firstlevel-commended-inthewild-my_lavender_adventure/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /discover/gallery/2024-firstlevel-commended-inthewild-my_lavender_adventure/ Look at me! I’m standing on one foot in a big purple field. It’s full of lavender flowers that smell so nice! I found this cool lavender stick and I’m holding it up high. It’s like I’m a wizard with a magic wand! Do you see how all the lavender plants are in straight lines? It’s like they’re playing follow-the-leader. My teacher says that’s a pattern, and patterns are math! /discover/gallery/2023-earlyyears-commended-thewhyofshapes-my_party_outfit/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /discover/gallery/2023-earlyyears-commended-thewhyofshapes-my_party_outfit/ Look at my kilt! I like it because it has lots of patterns. It has blue and green and all different ones. I wear it only at parties and for fun. My shirt has a pocket and squares. /discover/gallery/2024-seniorphase-commended-thewhyofshapes-my_rainbow_stones/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /discover/gallery/2024-seniorphase-commended-thewhyofshapes-my_rainbow_stones/ I love working with large chalk especially outdoors. I like to blend the colours and my teachers and ASNAs tell me I’m good at it. I created this design on the slabs beside the school garden. Research with staff help about shape and colour Colours have different wavelengths Longest wavelength is red. Shortest wavelength is violet. Also shortest wavelengths have more energy intensity. I like being creative especially using art and handwriting. /discover/gallery/my_snacks_carbs_41/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /discover/gallery/my_snacks_carbs_41/ /discover/gallery/my_town/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /discover/gallery/my_town/ /discover/gallery/2023-earlyyears-levelrunnerup-thewhyofshapes-my_very_own_rainbows/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /discover/gallery/2023-earlyyears-levelrunnerup-thewhyofshapes-my_very_own_rainbows/ I always see the rainbow droplets in my room when it’s sunny, but they disappear very quickly. There is no rain in my room. How is this possible? It means that the sunlight was passing through my clear drawer knobs, which acted as a prism, splitting the light into the colours of the rainbow. I feel very lucky to have my very own rainbows. /discover/gallery/na_raithean_agus_an_uair_-_seasons_and_time_910/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /discover/gallery/na_raithean_agus_an_uair_-_seasons_and_time_910/ /discover/gallery/naked_eye_181/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /discover/gallery/naked_eye_181/ /discover/gallery/new_glass_for_my_door_28/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /discover/gallery/new_glass_for_my_door_28/ /discover/gallery/noughts_and_crosses_77/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /discover/gallery/noughts_and_crosses_77/ /discover/gallery/numbers_and_squares_742/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /discover/gallery/numbers_and_squares_742/ /discover/gallery/2022-anotherlevel-levelrunnerup-thewhyofshapes-octowash/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /discover/gallery/2022-anotherlevel-levelrunnerup-thewhyofshapes-octowash/ An octagon is an eight sided polygon, each angle is 135 degrees. The octagon shape is more efficient allowing the drying green area to be divided by the number of tenants. /discover/gallery/one_small_step_for_climate_change_1029/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /discover/gallery/one_small_step_for_climate_change_1029/ /discover/gallery/one_square_and_lots_of_triangles_makes/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /discover/gallery/one_square_and_lots_of_triangles_makes/ /discover/gallery/2023-seniorphase-commended-thewhyofshapes-our_flat_universe/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /discover/gallery/2023-seniorphase-commended-thewhyofshapes-our_flat_universe/ Einstein’s theory of general relativity proposes that matter generates a gravitational field that warps the fabric of space-time. Does this mean that the entire universe naturally curved? There are three conceivable geometries for the universe. Negative curvature: in this scenario, the universe adopts a saddle-like shape. On the surface, the angles of a triangle would add up to less than 180°. Positive Curvature: In this scenario, the universe adopts a spherical form. /discover/gallery/out_at_sea/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /discover/gallery/out_at_sea/ /discover/gallery/2022-firstlevel-levelrunnerup-completethepattern-out_of_this_world/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /discover/gallery/2022-firstlevel-levelrunnerup-completethepattern-out_of_this_world/ Distance can play tricks and make big things seem smaller than they really are. My globe is much smaller than the world but it isn’t bigger than me, but here I am jumping off it. My globe measures 31cm across. I am 122cm tall. In the picture my height looks about one third of the distance across the globe. From that you can work out how far behind the globe that I am — but it’s quite tricky. /discover/gallery/2022-thirdfourthlevel-commended-inthewild-pointless_maths/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /discover/gallery/2022-thirdfourthlevel-commended-inthewild-pointless_maths/ The spikes on a hedgehog are similar to the upward spikes on a seismic graph measuring earthquakes. The population of hedgehogs is roughly 522,000. Hedgehogs normally hibernate from December to March. The population of hedgehogs in rural areas has dropped 50ince the year 2000. Did you know there is such thing as ‘hedgehog geometry’, I didn’t either! The hedgehog in the photo represents the term hedgehog geometry. The spikes on the hedgehog are like the spikes in hedgehog geometry. /discover/gallery/parallel_line_shadow/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /discover/gallery/parallel_line_shadow/ /discover/gallery/pattern_making_713/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /discover/gallery/pattern_making_713/ /discover/gallery/2022-seniorphase-commended-thewhyofshapes-pattern_at_the_lunch_hall/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /discover/gallery/2022-seniorphase-commended-thewhyofshapes-pattern_at_the_lunch_hall/ I thought that the bins were like coordinates on a grid. The grid was the tables and the bins are the points. If you join the points it makes a square. /discover/gallery/2023-earlyyears-commended-thewhyofshapes-patterns_outside/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /discover/gallery/2023-earlyyears-commended-thewhyofshapes-patterns_outside/ I made a pattern. I used conkers and wood. My pattern is wood, conker, wood, conker. I saw a pattern at the park and it was orange, green, orange, green. /discover/gallery/patterns_of_light/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /discover/gallery/patterns_of_light/ /discover/gallery/2023-thirdfourthlevel-commended-ootanaboot-paws_for_fuel/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /discover/gallery/2023-thirdfourthlevel-commended-ootanaboot-paws_for_fuel/ How much fuel do my dogs need to stay healthy? Everyday I walk my dogs, they must have the right fuel. Labradors like their food, so we have to measure out the perfect amount twice a day to make sure they remain healthy enough to stay in motion for us all to get ‘oot an aboot’. Q. How many Kilograms of kibble do they both wolf down each year? A. 292Kg /discover/gallery/2024-secondlevel-commended-inthewild-peatlands/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /discover/gallery/2024-secondlevel-commended-inthewild-peatlands/ Peat is made from decaying plants, bushes and grasses in water logged and acidic conditions. It regenerates very slowly and 6 inches of peat is around 1,000 years old! ​Peatland can be over 10 meters deep, holding 16 million tonnes of carbon. This is a photo of mechanically harvested peat, once cut it can take 2 to 4 weeks to dry before it can be used on a fire. Peat machines can cut enough peat in 1 hour to fuel a house fire for 6 months. /discover/gallery/2023-seniorphase-commended-ootanaboot-photoelectric_effect/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /discover/gallery/2023-seniorphase-commended-ootanaboot-photoelectric_effect/ Light, propagating at 186,000mps, emerges from electrically charged particles exchanging forces. It consists of oscillating electric and magnetic fields perpendicular to its direction, creating different forms of radiation across the electromagnetic spectrum. This spectrum encompasses radio waves (low-frequency), visible light (colors of the rainbow), and high-frequency Gamma Rays, invisible to the human eye. The ““Photoelectric effect”” is where only high-frequency light wavelengths such as blue and ultraviolet, light liberate electrons in metals, outperform even intense long-wave radiation in this process. /discover/gallery/picture_pixels/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /discover/gallery/picture_pixels/ /discover/gallery/pine_cones/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /discover/gallery/pine_cones/ /discover/gallery/2024-secondlevel-commended-thewhyofshapes-pine_needles_in_autumn/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /discover/gallery/2024-secondlevel-commended-thewhyofshapes-pine_needles_in_autumn/ The straight lines of the pine needles make lots of complementary and supplementary angles. /discover/gallery/pizza/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /discover/gallery/pizza/ /discover/gallery/2023-secondlevel-commended-thewhyofshapes-plane_windows/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /discover/gallery/2023-secondlevel-commended-thewhyofshapes-plane_windows/ Plane windows used to be square, but they kept exploding because stress kept building up in the corners causing the windows to either pop out or explode. Nowadays they are oval stop the build up of stress. /discover/gallery/planning_and_organising_526/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /discover/gallery/planning_and_organising_526/ /discover/gallery/playing_card/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /discover/gallery/playing_card/ /discover/gallery/plenty_more_fish_in_the_sea_883/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /discover/gallery/plenty_more_fish_in_the_sea_883/ /discover/gallery/2024-secondlevel-levelwinner-thewhyofshapes-pretty_as_a_pixel/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /discover/gallery/2024-secondlevel-levelwinner-thewhyofshapes-pretty_as_a_pixel/ Can you guess what this is a picture of? It is actually the Maths Inside logo, well part of it. I took a photo of the Maths Inside logo displayed on my computer screen with my microscope camera toy. It made it 50 times bigger! The little rectangles are called pixels. The monitor screen is made up of over 2 million pixels so this is just a small section of the whole picture. /discover/gallery/2022-earlyyears-commended-thewhyofshapes-pretzel_pattern/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /discover/gallery/2022-earlyyears-commended-thewhyofshapes-pretzel_pattern/ It’s a pretzel which has three figures of 8 or lots of circles knotted together. I like to eat pretzels. I like to look at the pattern as it is really pretty. /discover/gallery/2022-secondlevel-commended-completethepattern-primary_colours/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /discover/gallery/2022-secondlevel-commended-completethepattern-primary_colours/ I choose this photo of a yellow lichen to complete the pattern because it is the last of the primary colours. Red and blue are the other two colours. /discover/gallery/2022-firstlevel-commended-inthewild-puddle/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /discover/gallery/2022-firstlevel-commended-inthewild-puddle/ It’s been raining and there are puddles all over the place. They are quite big. You could measure how much water is in the puddle and you could measure how big the puddle is too. How long would it take for the puddle to dry up? I can see me taking the photo. I think reflections are maths too because maths is everywhere! /discover/gallery/puddle_patterns/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /discover/gallery/puddle_patterns/ /discover/gallery/2022-firstlevel-commended-completethepattern-purple_sky/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /discover/gallery/2022-firstlevel-commended-completethepattern-purple_sky/ You can create different colours by mixing colours together. If you take the primary colours of red and blue and mix these together this makes purple. Red + Blue = Purple. You can make different shades depending on how much of a colour you add. This photo of the sun setting in the sky above my house, shows the colours red and blue mixing together to make purple. /discover/gallery/2022-seniorphase-commended-completethepattern-rgb/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /discover/gallery/2022-seniorphase-commended-completethepattern-rgb/ RGB (red, green, and blue) refers to a system for representing the colours to be used on a computer display. Red, green, and blue can be combined in various proportions to obtain any colour in the visible spectrum. Levels of R, G, and B can each range from 0 to 100 percent of full intensity — to link with the puzzle I added the element of water. /discover/gallery/rain_it_in_1241/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /discover/gallery/rain_it_in_1241/ /discover/gallery/rainbow/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /discover/gallery/rainbow/ /discover/gallery/2022-firstlevel-commended-inthewild-raindrops/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /discover/gallery/2022-firstlevel-commended-inthewild-raindrops/ All the raindrops are lined up on the bits of grass. How many raindrops are there on each bit of grass? How many is you added all the grass? How much water do they have in them? How long did they take to form and fall? How much water is in all the clouds? How much water is in the whole world going round and round in the water cycle? /discover/gallery/2024-thirdfourthlevel-levelwinner-inthewild-rampant_rivers/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /discover/gallery/2024-thirdfourthlevel-levelwinner-inthewild-rampant_rivers/ River in the Pentland Hills. A natural river’s shape is influenced by various mathematical and physical processes, including fluid dynamics, sediment transport, and erosion. One key factor is the meander, the winding curves of a river. Meanders form due to differential flow velocities across a river’s width. Water flows faster on the outer banks of curves and slower on the inner banks, leading to erosion on the outer side and deposition on the inner side, which alters the river’s shape over time. /discover/gallery/2023-seniorphase-commended-inmotion-ready_set_go/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /discover/gallery/2023-seniorphase-commended-inmotion-ready_set_go/ This is a traffic light that is situated outside of my school. Traffic lights are incredibly important as they control the flow of traffic. Traffic lights work using sensors that detect vehicles. One type of sensor that could be used is an infrared sensor, which works by either detecting infrared energy emitted by vehicles or by emitting infrared signals that can be disrupted by vehicles. When the button is pressed by someone who wants to cross, the infrared sensor starts to detect vehicles, and that plays into how long you must wait until the light goes red and you can cross. /discover/gallery/2022-secondlevel-levelrunnerup-inthewild-red_sky_at_night/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /discover/gallery/2022-secondlevel-levelrunnerup-inthewild-red_sky_at_night/ Once sunlight enters the Earth’s atmosphere, it collides into all types of water droplets, molecules and particles. This causes some of the light to scatter. Not all sunlight reaches the Earth’s surface. Different wavelengths are scattered differently by the Earth’s atmosphere. Close to sunset this difference is more noticeable and shorter wavelengths (blue and purple) are scattered more strongly than the longer wavelengths (red and orange). In Mathematics, when it comes to sunsets, light is considered a wave and as red has the longest wavelength of any visible light, the sun is red when it is on the horizon, /discover/gallery/reflection/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /discover/gallery/reflection/ /discover/gallery/rigged_future_1169/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /discover/gallery/rigged_future_1169/ /discover/gallery/ripples_1313/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /discover/gallery/ripples_1313/ /discover/gallery/river_symmetry_849/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /discover/gallery/river_symmetry_849/ /discover/gallery/riverside_maths/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /discover/gallery/riverside_maths/ /discover/gallery/road_or_river_1230/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /discover/gallery/road_or_river_1230/ /discover/gallery/2023-earlyyears-levelwinner-ootanaboot-rocks_and_water/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /discover/gallery/2023-earlyyears-levelwinner-ootanaboot-rocks_and_water/ In Primary 1, I’m always out and about, exploring. One day I came across a waterfall. I proudly counted as many rocks as I could see, I learned to count up to 20 in class, both forwards and backwards. But I couldn’t count the water. It flowed and flowed, too much to count. I wondered how many buckets would it take to measure all that water? Maybe countless.. Just like my adventures in Primary 1, there’s so much more to see and learn. /discover/gallery/2022-seniorphase-commended-inthewild-roger_4/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /discover/gallery/2022-seniorphase-commended-inthewild-roger_4/ Motorsport events often use radio communication in order to safely run the event. Radio communication functions through sending radio waves from a transmitter on one end to a receiver on the others. The electromagnetic waves, often sine waves, are produced by a vibrating electric current in an antenna, which are spread out, then received by another antenna. Sine waves of different frequencies can be used to communicate across different channels. /discover/gallery/2024-earlyyears-levelrunnerup-thewhyofshapes-rolling_around/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /discover/gallery/2024-earlyyears-levelrunnerup-thewhyofshapes-rolling_around/ My bike has 2 wheels. It rolls really fast when I pedal it because the wheels are like circles and go round. I can see triangle shapes on my bike too. The 2 pedals are like squares. /discover/gallery/2023-firstlevel-commended-inmotion-rolling_in/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /discover/gallery/2023-firstlevel-commended-inmotion-rolling_in/ What makes waves move? Where do the bubbles come from? Are bubbles always the same shape? /discover/gallery/ross_priory_greenhouse_60/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /discover/gallery/ross_priory_greenhouse_60/ /discover/gallery/2024-secondlevel-commended-thewhyofshapes-rotation/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /discover/gallery/2024-secondlevel-commended-thewhyofshapes-rotation/ Pupils enjoyed exploring the playground and were drawn to the bike shed where they discovered repeat patterns found in the bike spokes and the wheel tread. The pupils were also excited to note that circles have infinite lines of symmetry and how the rotation of the shape helps the bike to move. /discover/gallery/2022-secondlevel-levelbestcommentary-thewhyofshapes-round_bell_and_many_tubes_in_various_shapes/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /discover/gallery/2022-secondlevel-levelbestcommentary-thewhyofshapes-round_bell_and_many_tubes_in_various_shapes/ When I was four years old — my favourite music instrument was a triangle. Although it could play only a single sound frequency when hit, it was just something magical about its sound and its shape. Two years ago I started paying cornet as it is capable of much more sounds and frequencies than a triangle. It has a round bell and many tubes in various shapes. I have learned that the pitch of the sound is determined by the wave length. /discover/gallery/round_and_round_up_and_down_127/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /discover/gallery/round_and_round_up_and_down_127/ /discover/gallery/rubiks_cube_636/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /discover/gallery/rubiks_cube_636/ /discover/gallery/running_500/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /discover/gallery/running_500/ /discover/gallery/2023-firstlevel-levelrunnerup-thewhyofshapes-sailing_along/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /discover/gallery/2023-firstlevel-levelrunnerup-thewhyofshapes-sailing_along/ Maths plays a major role in the shipping and boating industry. When boats and ships are designed and built, engineers use maths to calculate various things such as buoyancy, engine specifications and fuel requirements. Maths is also very important in navigating the sea. Ancient explorers used basic maths to travel across oceans to different lands. Nowadays, maths is used in sonar, radar and GPS navigation systems. /discover/gallery/save_our_seas_978/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /discover/gallery/save_our_seas_978/ /discover/gallery/scales/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /discover/gallery/scales/ /discover/gallery/2024-secondlevel-commended-thewhyofshapes-scaley_shoes/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /discover/gallery/2024-secondlevel-commended-thewhyofshapes-scaley_shoes/ ​I noticed there are lots of different shapes and patterns on the soles of shoes. I wondered why that is? Shapes on the soles help provide grips and scientists have tested to find the best shapes for grip. They used ideas from Kirigami, like origami but shapes are cut not folded, to create soles where shapes pop up when they bend to provide grip. They got inspired as well by nature; cheetah’s claws, snake’s scales and fish scales all provide grip. /discover/gallery/2022-firstlevel-commended-completethepattern-scary_monster/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /discover/gallery/2022-firstlevel-commended-completethepattern-scary_monster/ This photo completes the pattern as it is all about perspective. Perspective is how we look at things. Sometimes things are not always what they seem, like the tiny cow sitting on top of the big cow or the man in the boot! The shadow makes the small, cuddly toy appear big and scary! Aaaahhh!!! /discover/gallery/school_building_reflected/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /discover/gallery/school_building_reflected/ /discover/gallery/scottish_reflection/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /discover/gallery/scottish_reflection/ /discover/gallery/2024-secondlevel-commended-inthewild-sea_hare_breathing/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /discover/gallery/2024-secondlevel-commended-inthewild-sea_hare_breathing/ This is a picture of our sea hare in our class sea aquarium. The gills have a big surface area. The big surface are is good because there is more room for oxygen to get in to it. Small things dont need gills because the surface area is big compared to its volume, but big things need gills to have more surface area. /discover/gallery/2022-seniorphase-commended-inthewild-searching_between_the_lines_into_the_unknown/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /discover/gallery/2022-seniorphase-commended-inthewild-searching_between_the_lines_into_the_unknown/ This image incorporates math as it uses parallel lines to create the image. By using the slats of an old bench covered in moss looking down on a grass lawn to do so, i had learned about this type of technique as a part of my learning of framing in photography and in my math classes. i used the focus of my camera to focus on the grass between the bench slats to lure your focus to the grass and leaves in between them, giving the image a natural look to it and using nature to help give it its aesthetic, bringing out the bright green grass in contrast with the bench and using the rough texture of the bench to make the grass and leaves look smother. /discover/gallery/2022-firstlevel-commended-inthewild-seeing_double/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /discover/gallery/2022-firstlevel-commended-inthewild-seeing_double/ I noticed this really cool pattern on the rocks by the side of the river, I think the water must have made the pattern. When I looked at my photo at home I noticed the symmetry reflected on the water too. It is a double maths photo! /discover/gallery/2022-firstlevel-levelbestcommentary-inthewild-sgothan_a_sgeith_-_flying_clouds/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /discover/gallery/2022-firstlevel-levelbestcommentary-inthewild-sgothan_a_sgeith_-_flying_clouds/ Sgòthan a’ sgeith Sgòthan slaodach, sgòthan luath Neart na gaoithe a’ toirt buaidh. Sgòthan dorcha, sgòthan glasa Bheir iad uile diofar fras. Sgòthan àrda, sgothan iosal A’ bristeadh ann an diofar phìosan. Sgòthan fad às, sgòthan faisg, Boineagan uisge, dlùth air am paisg. Sgòthan cruinne, sgòthan rèidh Barrachd sgòthan na bh’ ann an-dè! Sgòthan tana, sgòthan tiugh Abair sgòthan a th’ againn an diugh! Flying Clouds Slow clouds, fast clouds /discover/gallery/2024-secondlevel-commended-inthewild-shadow_time/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /discover/gallery/2024-secondlevel-commended-inthewild-shadow_time/ This is a photo of some trees in my school, Merrylee Primary School. I like the shadows that the trees make. They make interesting shapes. The maths inside is that you can use shadows to tell the time. By measuring where shadows are at different times of day you can make a ‘shadow clock’ or a sundial. /discover/gallery/2024-seniorphase-levelrunnerup-thewhyofshapes-shapes_in_the_jeely_piece_song/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /discover/gallery/2024-seniorphase-levelrunnerup-thewhyofshapes-shapes_in_the_jeely_piece_song/ Our S5 Maths group have been listening to the lyrics and music of Scottish singer songwriter Matt McGinn’s The Jeely Piece Song to find any mentions of shape. We had never heard of of the song before. The skyscraper models are cuboids. Lots of buildings past and present are cuboid shaped because they are easy to construct, strong and stable. The boy is complaining about the height of the one he lives in. /discover/gallery/2022-firstlevel-commended-thewhyofshapes-shapes_of_space/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /discover/gallery/2022-firstlevel-commended-thewhyofshapes-shapes_of_space/ How many different shaped pieces does it take to create space? Each one 2D with its own special shape made up of curves, edges & straight lines, that fit perfectly with only one other. When these pieces are connected together, they create a whole new shape a picture of many shapes. Stars circles, rectangle. Then once you have finished, the pieces of shape are taken apart to live in a box (cube) again. /discover/gallery/sheep_speed/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /discover/gallery/sheep_speed/ /discover/gallery/shopping_in_2020_8/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /discover/gallery/shopping_in_2020_8/ /discover/gallery/sine_and_cosine_/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /discover/gallery/sine_and_cosine_/ /discover/gallery/2024-earlyyears-levelrunnerup-inthewild-sizes/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /discover/gallery/2024-earlyyears-levelrunnerup-inthewild-sizes/ I found 3 sticks. There is big, medium and small. /discover/gallery/skip_counting_using_seaweed_1049/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /discover/gallery/skip_counting_using_seaweed_1049/ /discover/gallery/slam_dunk/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /discover/gallery/slam_dunk/ /discover/gallery/2023-secondlevel-commended-inmotion-slam_dunk_mathematics/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /discover/gallery/2023-secondlevel-commended-inmotion-slam_dunk_mathematics/ I pick up the ball, check the pressure and give it a few bounces. I compare the ball circumference with the hoop and check the wind direction with the net. I get the right angle, distance and with just enough force I shoot. Velocity is measured and gravity does the trick, I score!! /discover/gallery/2024-thirdfourthlevel-commended-thewhyofshapes-sliding_in_to_maths/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /discover/gallery/2024-thirdfourthlevel-commended-thewhyofshapes-sliding_in_to_maths/ The maths in this photo are the positions in their legs are icosolese triangles. There are also circles in the ice and the penalty box is a cube. /discover/gallery/small_man_crushed_by_enormous_foot_747/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /discover/gallery/small_man_crushed_by_enormous_foot_747/ /discover/gallery/2023-firstlevel-commended-ootanaboot-small_medium_and_large/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /discover/gallery/2023-firstlevel-commended-ootanaboot-small_medium_and_large/ Near my house there are lots of wind turbines. When I was out on a walk, I took a photo of three of them. It looks like they are different sizes: small, medium and large but they are the same size, just at different distances away. /discover/gallery/2022-seniorphase-commended-completethepattern-snail/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /discover/gallery/2022-seniorphase-commended-completethepattern-snail/ The golden ratio is a special ratio between two qualities in which the ratio is equal to the sum of the larger two qualities. This ratio creates a spiral shape and creates a link between art and maths. This ratio can be seen in multiple famous paintings such as the Mona Lisa and appears within the spiral of the sea shell in my photograph. A shallow depth of field has also been used within my photograph to emphasise the spiral on the shell and blur out the background to make a more snail like appearance. /discover/gallery/2022-thirdfourthlevel-commended-completethepattern-soaking_yellow/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /discover/gallery/2022-thirdfourthlevel-commended-completethepattern-soaking_yellow/ I chose a soaked yellow picture to complete the pattern, because I felt that the pattern was meant to represent the three primary colours (red, blue and yellow) in contact with water. The picture was a close-up shot of a banana with water droplets on it. The primary colours are best known as the building blocks to make every other colour out there. Colours are just like numbers. Upon combining colours, you would be presented with a new colour, which you could combine with another colour to create a completely different colour. /discover/gallery/2024-seniorphase-levelwinner-thewhyofshapes-socrates_who_lives_to_a_hundred/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /discover/gallery/2024-seniorphase-levelwinner-thewhyofshapes-socrates_who_lives_to_a_hundred/ This is Socrates, our school pet. He is a tortoise, which of course means that he has a durably protective exoskeletal shell. As seen in the picture, the scales (scutes) are hexagons in the centre of the shell, surrounded by slightly irregular pentagons, and then surrounded by a final ring of irregular shapes. The reason for this is that while hexagons tessellate nicely to fill an area, they cannot be bent into the distinct shape of a tortoise’s shell. /discover/gallery/2023-earlyyears-commended-ootanaboot-some_numbers_are_missing/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /discover/gallery/2023-earlyyears-commended-ootanaboot-some_numbers_are_missing/ While out and about on a rainy and windy autumn day, Leyana did not pay attention to the rain nor the wind but noticed this sign. She said, there are missing numbers in the sequence. /discover/gallery/2024-secondlevel-commended-thewhyofshapes-special_spirals/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /discover/gallery/2024-secondlevel-commended-thewhyofshapes-special_spirals/ I found a spiral in the playground. It is a 2D shape that looks like a winding line going around and around. If you draw a spiral flat on paper, it stays all in one plane. But if you put that spiral on a 3D shape, like a sphere, it becomes something called a loxodrome! A loxodrome wraps around the sphere in a special way, crossing all the lines of latitude and longitude. /discover/gallery/2024-firstlevel-levelwinner-inthewild-special_waves/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /discover/gallery/2024-firstlevel-levelwinner-inthewild-special_waves/ I like to watch the kayakers in the loch at the Falls of Lora. The waves are only there when the tides are big, and water moves fast, in and out of the sea. But why don’t these waves move forward like waves at the beach? I found out these are called standing waves. They appear to stand still because one current of water is going forwards, and one current is going backwards. /discover/gallery/2023-earlyyears-levelrunnerup-inmotion-speeddistance__time/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /discover/gallery/2023-earlyyears-levelrunnerup-inmotion-speeddistance__time/ We sailed from Lochmaddy to Uig today which is a distance of 33.4 miles. We timed our journey and it took 1 hour and 43 minutes. This means that the ferry was travelling at 19.4 miles per hour. /discover/gallery/2023-earlyyears-levelrunnerup-inmotion-speed_distance_time/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /discover/gallery/2023-earlyyears-levelrunnerup-inmotion-speed_distance_time/ We sailed from Lochmaddy to Uig today which is a distance of 33.4 miles. We timed our journey and it took 1 hour and 43 minutes. This means that the ferry was travelling at 19.4 miles per hour. /discover/gallery/speed_cameras_135/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /discover/gallery/speed_cameras_135/ /discover/gallery/speed_of_light_circle_298/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /discover/gallery/speed_of_light_circle_298/ /discover/gallery/2023-secondlevel-commended-thewhyofshapes-spherical_buoy/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /discover/gallery/2023-secondlevel-commended-thewhyofshapes-spherical_buoy/ On our boat journey we spotted buoys of all shapes, sizes and colours. Spheres, cylinders and pyramids. They marked out a route on the water like a map. Does the shape make it float better we wondered. The cylinders certainly tipped more in the wind. The sphere seemed more stable. The colour certainly impacted on how well we could see it. We liked the yellow sphere buoy. It was like the sun particularly when the sun seemed absent from the sky that day! /discover/gallery/2023-seniorphase-levelrunnerup-thewhyofshapes-spherical_triangles/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /discover/gallery/2023-seniorphase-levelrunnerup-thewhyofshapes-spherical_triangles/ I took this picture in Belfast, Ireland. I discovered afterward that this is the ‘Rise’ sculpture, created in 2011. It was designed by Wolfgang Buttress and commissioned by the Belfast City Council as part of a large-scale road improvement program. The sculpture consists of a geodesic sphere suspended inside a larger, similarly geodesic sphere with a diameter of 30m. By geodesic, simply meaning that the sphere is made of a combination of triangles, hexagons, and pentagons - or in this case, just triangles. /discover/gallery/2022-secondlevel-commended-inthewild-spiders_web/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /discover/gallery/2022-secondlevel-commended-inthewild-spiders_web/ I know there is math in spider’s webs. Maybe one day I’ll understand it. For now, I want to just look at them, see how beautiful they are and believe that anything is possible. /discover/gallery/spiral/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /discover/gallery/spiral/ /discover/gallery/2024-secondlevel-commended-thewhyofshapes-spiral_forrest/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /discover/gallery/2024-secondlevel-commended-thewhyofshapes-spiral_forrest/ Coils are cool because they look like curly springs! When you look at them they’re like a twisty line that keeps wrapping around itself. You can find coils in lots of things, in a slinky or even in a telephone cord. They can be tight and squished together or big and loose, and they can help things move or hold energy. It’s like a magic trick that makes things work better! /discover/gallery/spirals_in_nature/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /discover/gallery/spirals_in_nature/ /discover/gallery/2022-secondlevel-commended-thewhyofshapes-spot_the_super_sea_slug/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /discover/gallery/2022-secondlevel-commended-thewhyofshapes-spot_the_super_sea_slug/ In this photo, there is a tiny blue sea slug, called polycera quadrilineata, can you spot it? It is really pretty and moves by wiggling its frills, the shape of which are designed to move well through water. I was wondering if there was any maths behind sea slugs. I went online and found that scientists have looked at the geometry of sea slugs and how they move using their frills. /discover/gallery/2022-firstlevel-commended-thewhyofshapes-spots_and_dots/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /discover/gallery/2022-firstlevel-commended-thewhyofshapes-spots_and_dots/ I was out a walk and I saw an unusual tree up ahead. From a distance it looked like the tree was covered in circles but as I got closer I saw that the circles were actually mushrooms! There were too many too count! I keep visiting the woods to record how long they live for, it’s exciting to see if there will be even more or if they will disappear. /discover/gallery/squares_in_a_circle/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /discover/gallery/squares_in_a_circle/ /discover/gallery/stairs_challenge/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /discover/gallery/stairs_challenge/ /discover/gallery/stairway_to_samos/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /discover/gallery/stairway_to_samos/ /discover/gallery/2022-secondlevel-commended-inthewild-stone_arch/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /discover/gallery/2022-secondlevel-commended-inthewild-stone_arch/ I took this photo at Jupiter art land and was immediately amazed by how much the use of physics and lots of hard work was able to balance the stones perfectly and make sure they don’t fall. /discover/gallery/stories_in_stones/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /discover/gallery/stories_in_stones/ /discover/gallery/2023-secondlevel-commended-inmotion-string_vibration/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /discover/gallery/2023-secondlevel-commended-inmotion-string_vibration/ I can make music with my viola by getting the strings to vibrate. Depending on the amplitude and frequency of the vibration I can create different sounds. I can control these by changing the length of the string (by laying my fingers on it) and by the motion I make with my bow. The maths of music is cool! /discover/gallery/2022-secondlevel-commended-thewhyofshapes-strong_bridge/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /discover/gallery/2022-secondlevel-commended-thewhyofshapes-strong_bridge/ My math inside photo is a small bridge going to a pontoon. The reason why​ there are triangles on the bridge is because if it was rectangles or any other shape the bridge would collapse because that the rectangles and circles would not be strong enough eventually leading to the bridge collapsing. Triangles are good because they evenly distributes weight on the bridges so that they do not collapse into the water. /discover/gallery/sturdy/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /discover/gallery/sturdy/ /discover/gallery/sunflower_symmetry_12/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /discover/gallery/sunflower_symmetry_12/ /discover/gallery/2022-secondlevel-commended-thewhyofshapes-sunny_multiplication/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /discover/gallery/2022-secondlevel-commended-thewhyofshapes-sunny_multiplication/ I found these shapes in our playground. They are circles which are great as stepping stones for playing. There are 3 rows of 3 so 3 x 3 = 9 and altogether they look like a square. I liked how the shapes go from dark to light. I shared my photograph at an assembly to the whole school. Someone said my photo was like a fraction too. 3⁄9 are in the sun and this is the same as 1⁄3. /discover/gallery/sunshine_on_raindrops_1237/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /discover/gallery/sunshine_on_raindrops_1237/ /discover/gallery/2022-seniorphase-commended-thewhyofshapes-surface_tension/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /discover/gallery/2022-seniorphase-commended-thewhyofshapes-surface_tension/ We captured this photograph when exploring nature in our School Garden. We were drawn to the leading lines of the grass and how they help to make the repetitive water droplets stand out. We like how the droplets were in a row like a sequence and creating a repeat pattern and we thought this linked well to maths. We chose this category because it got us thinking ‘why’ and ‘how’ do water droplets hold their forms? /discover/gallery/2023-thirdfourthlevel-commended-inmotion-swinging_away/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /discover/gallery/2023-thirdfourthlevel-commended-inmotion-swinging_away/ This photo here shows a boy on a swing. Pretty simple right? But it’s not… Some say the credit is owed to the Minoan people but most likely to the English engineer, Charles Wicksteed who invented the modern-day swing in the early 1900s. But even later artefacts have been found to date back to 1450BC! The maths behind the swing is all to do with gravity and the momentum and many other things to do with motion and so on. /discover/gallery/2024-firstlevel-commended-inthewild-symmetrical_fern/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /discover/gallery/2024-firstlevel-commended-inthewild-symmetrical_fern/ The fern is symmetrical and the leaves are like fractals. /discover/gallery/symmetrical_fruits/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /discover/gallery/symmetrical_fruits/ /discover/gallery/2022-secondlevel-commended-inthewild-symmetry/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /discover/gallery/2022-secondlevel-commended-inthewild-symmetry/ This is a picture of a symmetrical butterfly. This shows a line of symmetry going up and down the butterfly. /discover/gallery/symmetry/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /discover/gallery/symmetry/ /discover/gallery/symmetry_203/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /discover/gallery/symmetry_203/ /discover/gallery/symmetry_and_farming/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /discover/gallery/symmetry_and_farming/ /discover/gallery/symmetry_in_unexpected_places_528/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /discover/gallery/symmetry_in_unexpected_places_528/ /discover/gallery/timber_697/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /discover/gallery/timber_697/ /discover/gallery/take_a_look_inside_a_book_1172/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /discover/gallery/take_a_look_inside_a_book_1172/ /discover/gallery/2023-secondlevel-levelwinner-inmotion-taking_a_photo_of_a_photo_of_a_photo/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /discover/gallery/2023-secondlevel-levelwinner-inmotion-taking_a_photo_of_a_photo_of_a_photo/ ​I like photography. This is my photo of my camera taking a photo of my camera taking a photo and so on for the maths inside competition. Did you know that shutter speed involves measuring in fractions of a second? Shutter speed is how long the camera shutter stays open. A fast shutter speed would stay open for 1⁄500 second, while a slow shutter speed would stay open for ¼ second. /discover/gallery/tall_tall_grass_we_have_to_go_through_it_280/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /discover/gallery/tall_tall_grass_we_have_to_go_through_it_280/ /discover/gallery/tatty_maths_1190/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /discover/gallery/tatty_maths_1190/ /discover/gallery/2022-firstlevel-commended-thewhyofshapes-tessellating/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /discover/gallery/2022-firstlevel-commended-thewhyofshapes-tessellating/ The house has square and rectangle bricks. The bricks need to be square or rectangle so they can stack and fit together. The sides of these shapes are flat and straight to make it easier to concrete them together. You couldn’t use round shapes to build a house because they wouldn’t fit together. This math’s skill is called tessellation. /discover/gallery/2022-seniorphase-levelwinner-thewhyofshapes-the_f_is_fundamental/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /discover/gallery/2022-seniorphase-levelwinner-thewhyofshapes-the_f_is_fundamental/ Why are f-holes shaped like that? Some scientists recently wondered why the shape of the ‘F holes’ had evolved so much over time, from being a single hole, to a curved ‘c’ shape and now an ‘f’! The f-shape turns out to have physics that push a lot more air than a circular hole, making the violin’s output dramatically more powerful compared to the use of one simple hole. Over centuries, sound hole perimeter length gradually grew, providing greater conductance, greater air volume and mass flow rates over time, resulting in a richer sound quality and tone being produced. /discover/gallery/2022-anotherlevel-levelwinner-thewhyofshapes-the_birds_and_the_bees/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /discover/gallery/2022-anotherlevel-levelwinner-thewhyofshapes-the_birds_and_the_bees/ ‘Beehive’ shaped, corbelled roofs have been used since the Stone Age to span voids and create roofs in buildings. One of the earliest examples of a part corbelled roof can be found at the Knap of Howar on Papa Westray, Orkney - the oldest preserved stone house in Northern Europe - dating to around 3500BC. Corbelled roofs can also be found in the Great Pyramid of Giza, the Roman Parthenon and many later castles and structures. /discover/gallery/2022-firstlevel-levelwinner-thewhyofshapes-the_brick_house/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /discover/gallery/2022-firstlevel-levelwinner-thewhyofshapes-the_brick_house/ We started learning 3D shapes in P3 this term and I can see shapes everywhere around us. My favorite thing to do is building lego bricks in my spare time and there are so many different shapes and sizes Lego bricks. Each shape has different number of faces, edges and vertices. In this photo, it was taken at the legohouse in Billund when I visited in Easter, and I’m fascinated by the shape of the building as it just looks like a bigger version of my lego bricks. /discover/gallery/the_bricks_of_the_va_dundee_581/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /discover/gallery/the_bricks_of_the_va_dundee_581/ /discover/gallery/the_butterfly/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /discover/gallery/the_butterfly/ /discover/gallery/2022-anotherlevel-commended-thewhyofshapes-the_changing_meaning_of_shapes/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /discover/gallery/2022-anotherlevel-commended-thewhyofshapes-the_changing_meaning_of_shapes/ This is a photo of a collection of shapes. To someone it might just stay as a collection of shapes, different types, different sizes, but just shapes, form but no function. To members of the chess club (thanks to our head coach Mr C!) it has much more meaning. These shapes have form and function. They represent — lunchtime play — cooperating with others — learning from your opponent and our head coach — planning moves — thinking out strategies — sharing tips — celebrating a win, accepting defeat. /discover/gallery/the_compost_bin_253/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /discover/gallery/the_compost_bin_253/ /discover/gallery/2022-thirdfourthlevel-commended-inthewild-the_dach_ing_skater/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /discover/gallery/2022-thirdfourthlevel-commended-inthewild-the_dach_ing_skater/ If I know how far my dog travelled and how long it took him, how do I know how fast he was going? Firstly, I measured how long the lawn was. I did this by walking toe-to-heel along the length of grass to work out the distance. I took 74.5 steps. Then I measured the length of my shoe in centimetres and got 27.5cm. Next, I calculated the distance by multiplying 74. /discover/gallery/the_destroyer_847/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /discover/gallery/the_destroyer_847/ /discover/gallery/2023-seniorphase-commended-inmotion-the_doppler_effect/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /discover/gallery/2023-seniorphase-commended-inmotion-the_doppler_effect/ The Doppler Effect, named after Austrian Christian doppler in 1842, is a fundamental concept in physics that explains how the frequency or wavelengths of a wave, whether it’s sound or electromagnetic radiation changes when with either the source or the observer is in motion relative to each other. For a stationary sound source emitting a constant-frequency wave, all observers perceive the same frequency because the wavefronts maintain a fixed separation. Consequently, the wavelength and frequency remain unchanged. /discover/gallery/2022-secondlevel-commended-inthewild-the_equation_of_canter/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /discover/gallery/2022-secondlevel-commended-inthewild-the_equation_of_canter/ This is BeBob he’s about 14 hands, that’s the term we use to measure his height. He’s really clever but he relies on me to tell him what to do. Before we start my back and heels need to be at the right angle, to optimise what I want him to do, a couple of nudge’s and we’re off to a canter, I need to estimate where we need to get from and two, so I’ll count his strides to work it out. /discover/gallery/the_equation_of_sound_635/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /discover/gallery/the_equation_of_sound_635/ /discover/gallery/the_exact_moment_before_i_spilled_tea_everywhere_913/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /discover/gallery/the_exact_moment_before_i_spilled_tea_everywhere_913/ /discover/gallery/the_forth_bridge/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /discover/gallery/the_forth_bridge/ /discover/gallery/2023-seniorphase-commended-inmotion-the_gaul_of_gulls/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /discover/gallery/2023-seniorphase-commended-inmotion-the_gaul_of_gulls/ Seagulls’ ability to fly is nothing short of a mathematical wonder. They flap their wings down against the air creating an opposing force, pushing their bodies up. Since their bodies are so large (due to their immense wingspan) and their mass is so comparatively small, they can create more lifting force for themselves. The angle and curvature of their wings helps guide wind along their surface, pushing them up even further, and allowing them to glide through the skies. /discover/gallery/2023-firstlevel-levelrunnerup-thewhyofshapes-the_giant_tube_trumpet/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /discover/gallery/2023-firstlevel-levelrunnerup-thewhyofshapes-the_giant_tube_trumpet/ After experimenting with some cardboard tubes of differing sizes, Gaia was delighted to find an extra-long wrapping paper tube. She made noises and we talked to each other through the tubes. Gaia commented on how the sound of her voice changed. ”“It goes ooh eh, big voice (making her voice deep and loud)”” It makes your voice big? ”“It makes it louder.”” Why? Following this, Gaia came across a bamboo instrument in a park, the cylindrical bamboo hung in various lengths. /discover/gallery/2022-firstlevel-categorywinner-completethepattern-the_guitar_fairy/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /discover/gallery/2022-firstlevel-categorywinner-completethepattern-the_guitar_fairy/ The pattern is a distant thing on top of a near thing that repeats. It’s an optical illusion because it looks like something is smaller than it really is. An optical illusion is a trick for the eye — that is also what is repeating. /discover/gallery/2022-seniorphase-levelbestcommentary-thewhyofshapes-the_hanging_chain/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /discover/gallery/2022-seniorphase-levelbestcommentary-thewhyofshapes-the_hanging_chain/ The graph y=cosh (x) also known as a ‘Catenary’ is commonly mistaken for y = x² (a parabola which is more pointy than the catenary) is the shape a chain (with a uniform density) makes when hung from two 2 points of equal height. Catenaries are also seen in the architecture of bridges, arches and the shapes of eggs and spider webs. /discover/gallery/2022-secondlevel-commended-thewhyofshapes-the_honey_factory/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /discover/gallery/2022-secondlevel-commended-thewhyofshapes-the_honey_factory/ I have my own beehive and keep my own bees. This is a picture of some honeycomb made by my bees- you can see the hexagon shapes that make it up. This is where the honey is stored for feeding the grubs. Bees make their combs as hexagons because it does not take up a lot of space and it does not use a lot of wax and if they join them together there is no gaps — they tessellate. /discover/gallery/the_house_965/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /discover/gallery/the_house_965/ /discover/gallery/2024-thirdfourthlevel-levelrunnerup-thewhyofshapes-the_lighthouse_a_beacon_of_mathematical_genius/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /discover/gallery/2024-thirdfourthlevel-levelrunnerup-thewhyofshapes-the_lighthouse_a_beacon_of_mathematical_genius/ For centuries, lighthouses have allowed ships to safely navigate treacherous waters but couldn’t do this without careful calculation. I was lucky to get to climb up the 152 steps to the top of this one. The lighthouse at Ardnamurchan, has a tower height of 35 metres, and a total height above sea level of 55 metres. This height allows the light to be visible for 18 nautical miles, around the curvature of the Earth. /discover/gallery/2022-thirdfourthlevel-levelbestcommentary-inthewild-the_mathematician_and_the_flower/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /discover/gallery/2022-thirdfourthlevel-levelbestcommentary-inthewild-the_mathematician_and_the_flower/ An earlier name of the hydrangea shown in the photo was ‘hortensia’. People have long believed the hortensia was named after an 18th century French astronomer and mathematician, Nicole-Reine ‘Hortense’ Lepaute. But was it? Lepaute was born in 1723, and in 1749 married a royal clockmaker working at the Luxembourg Palace in Paris where the astronomer Jerome Lalande also had an observatory. The three became friends and worked together on an astronomical clock, for which Lepaute calculated tables of the oscillations of a pendulum. /discover/gallery/the_mathematicians_nightmare_1019/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /discover/gallery/the_mathematicians_nightmare_1019/ /discover/gallery/the_mathmantics_of_bikes_69/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /discover/gallery/the_mathmantics_of_bikes_69/ /discover/gallery/2022-seniorphase-commended-inthewild-the_maths_hidden_in_beauty/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /discover/gallery/2022-seniorphase-commended-inthewild-the_maths_hidden_in_beauty/ My concept is to highlight how maths is prominent in even the smallest details of nature. The Fibonacci sequence is a visible form of mathematics within the heads of flowers, particularly the sunflower. It is also visible in pinecones and pineapples. This sequence is when a number is the sum of its two proceeding numbers. To show this I used exposure within the photo to help highlight this pattern as it made the shadows within more prominent. /discover/gallery/the_maths_tunnel/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /discover/gallery/the_maths_tunnel/ /discover/gallery/2022-seniorphase-levelrunnerup-thewhyofshapes-the_movement_of_light_through_prisms/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /discover/gallery/2022-seniorphase-levelrunnerup-thewhyofshapes-the_movement_of_light_through_prisms/ The inspiration of this photograph came from an accidental encounter with a glass prism and the torch that was used to light up the dark room in which we were tasked to take photographs in. The light beam, with a rainbow hue, refracted effortlessly off of the body of the prism. The rainbow light immediately caught my interest as I remember how prisms were first experimented with by Sir Isaac Newton in 1666. /discover/gallery/the_passing_of_time_52/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /discover/gallery/the_passing_of_time_52/ /discover/gallery/2022-secondlevel-commended-thewhyofshapes-the_perfect_shot/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /discover/gallery/2022-secondlevel-commended-thewhyofshapes-the_perfect_shot/ I love playing and watching tennis and I am in awe of famous players who can produce amazing shots and powerful serves for hours on end. How do professional tennis players manage to serve at over 100mph? How can I get topspin on my shots? Does the shape and size of my racket really matter? The key? The tennis racket! Rackets in the past were made from wood and had a smaller face but they are now larger and made of lighter material like graphite so this has allowed players to be faster and hit with more spin. /discover/gallery/the_pom_pom_spiral/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /discover/gallery/the_pom_pom_spiral/ /discover/gallery/the_power_of_water_1163/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /discover/gallery/the_power_of_water_1163/ /discover/gallery/the_scottish_snow_1117/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /discover/gallery/the_scottish_snow_1117/ /discover/gallery/the_shapes_of_time_407/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /discover/gallery/the_shapes_of_time_407/ /discover/gallery/2022-seniorphase-overallbestcommentary-inthewild-the_swell_of_the_shell_ill_tell/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /discover/gallery/2022-seniorphase-overallbestcommentary-inthewild-the_swell_of_the_shell_ill_tell/ In this photo, my subject has substituted her eye for a shell but it isn’t just a shell, it’s a logarithmic spiral. The logarithmic spiral is the curve for which the angle between the tangent and the radius, the polar tangent is a constant. The first to describe a logarithmic spiral was Albrecht Dürer (1525) who called it an ‘eternal line’. More than century after that the curve was discovered by scientist and extensively investigated by Jacob Bernoulli, who called it Spira mirabilis, ‘the marvellous spiral’. /discover/gallery/the_timekeeper_49/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /discover/gallery/the_timekeeper_49/ /discover/gallery/2022-thirdfourthlevel-commended-inthewild-the_toadstools/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /discover/gallery/2022-thirdfourthlevel-commended-inthewild-the_toadstools/ My name is Alyssia, I really believe that this toadstool connects not only to nature but to maths. When you go outside you wouldn’t say oh look that’s a tree I wonder what maths it has — but when you really look into it and you will see how much maths is actually in nature. Maths is all in the world around us, in every day life. The photo I chose — the two toadstools — shows how that maths can relate to anything! /discover/gallery/the_tortoise_and_the_hare_300/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /discover/gallery/the_tortoise_and_the_hare_300/ /discover/gallery/the_triangle_stairs_182/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /discover/gallery/the_triangle_stairs_182/ /discover/gallery/2024-earlyyears-commended-thewhyofshapes-the_wall_to_ardbeg/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /discover/gallery/2024-earlyyears-commended-thewhyofshapes-the_wall_to_ardbeg/ All the rocks are different shapes and sizes. How do they all fit together to build a whole wall? Why is the lichen made of so many circles? /discover/gallery/the_weighing_machine/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /discover/gallery/the_weighing_machine/ /discover/gallery/2023-earlyyears-commended-thewhyofshapes-the_wheels_on_the_bus/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /discover/gallery/2023-earlyyears-commended-thewhyofshapes-the_wheels_on_the_bus/ There are many different shapes found in this photo. The bus driver of the number 35 from Aberdeen to Elgin kindly let us take a snap. The children with me that day knew the wheels on the bus go round and round and was that the reason the steering wheel was round? /discover/gallery/2022-firstlevel-levelrunnerup-inthewild-the_wonder_of_water/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /discover/gallery/2022-firstlevel-levelrunnerup-inthewild-the_wonder_of_water/ When out in our school garden we found some interesting water droplets resting on some plants. We were fascinated by the tiny droplets and how they kept their forms. We like this photograph because it makes the volume of water look greater than they actually are because we zoomed in to capture them close up. We also like this photograph because it links to maths and geometric shapes as we captured triangles and spheres. /discover/gallery/theos_tone_in_halftone/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /discover/gallery/theos_tone_in_halftone/ /discover/gallery/third_of_the_way_there/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /discover/gallery/third_of_the_way_there/ /discover/gallery/thistle_of_scotland_518/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /discover/gallery/thistle_of_scotland_518/ /discover/gallery/tick_tock_45/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /discover/gallery/tick_tock_45/ /discover/gallery/tiletastic_shapes_260/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /discover/gallery/tiletastic_shapes_260/ /discover/gallery/time_after_time_301/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /discover/gallery/time_after_time_301/ /discover/gallery/time_is_relative_508/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /discover/gallery/time_is_relative_508/ /discover/gallery/2024-firstlevel-levelrunnerup-inthewild-time_travel/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /discover/gallery/2024-firstlevel-levelrunnerup-inthewild-time_travel/ I went to Safari Park with my sister and saw lots of dinosaurs! Did you know that maths can help us travel back in time? Scientists use numbers to estimate how old fossils are, which helps us understand when dinosaurs lived. They also count fossils, just like I count my toys, to find out how many kinds of dinosaurs there were. Sometimes, scientists have to make smart guesses if they can’t find all the fossils. /discover/gallery/time_tests_and_numbers_1277/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /discover/gallery/time_tests_and_numbers_1277/ /discover/gallery/time_throughout_time_283/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /discover/gallery/time_throughout_time_283/ /discover/gallery/2024-anotherlevel-levelwinner-thewhyofshapes-tr_why_angles/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /discover/gallery/2024-anotherlevel-levelwinner-thewhyofshapes-tr_why_angles/ A picture taken from the top of the Forth Rail bridge showing some of the 6.5 million rivets used to join it. However the focus of the image is the triangle structures used to hold the bridge together. It is said triangles are the strongest shape as each corner distributes the force down the other two lengths. The forth bridge held a record for the longest cantilever bridge before being beaten by a bridge in Canada. /discover/gallery/tracking_past_climates_1261/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /discover/gallery/tracking_past_climates_1261/ /discover/gallery/treeantan_609/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /discover/gallery/treeantan_609/ /discover/gallery/triangle_tower/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /discover/gallery/triangle_tower/ /discover/gallery/2024-secondlevel-commended-thewhyofshapes-triangles_in_engineering/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /discover/gallery/2024-secondlevel-commended-thewhyofshapes-triangles_in_engineering/ Triangles are the strongest shape because they can support heavy things and stay the same shape. Triangles tessellate. Roof beams are triangles and table legs too. The reason why triangles have lots of different uses is because they can be supportive, strong and stable. /discover/gallery/2023-earlyyears-commended-thewhyofshapes-triangular_flags/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /discover/gallery/2023-earlyyears-commended-thewhyofshapes-triangular_flags/ Why are bunting flags triangular? Perhaps they move better in the wind? Perhaps they don’t fold over? We did not know but we did enjoy their appearance and in this case their repeating rainbow pattern as they hung in the tree at our campsite. /discover/gallery/2023-firstlevel-commended-ootanaboot-trickier_to_build_than_lego/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /discover/gallery/2023-firstlevel-commended-ootanaboot-trickier_to_build_than_lego/ This wall made me think about building with Lego. I wonder how many rocks it took to build the wall? It has one big block on the top but I think that the wall is more than one rock wide further down. The wall was about 1m tall and and about 30cm wide. /discover/gallery/trumpet_valves_488/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /discover/gallery/trumpet_valves_488/ /discover/gallery/uachdar-_re%C3%B2ite_biorach_-_pointy_ice-cream_610/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /discover/gallery/uachdar-_re%C3%B2ite_biorach_-_pointy_ice-cream_610/ /discover/gallery/2024-thirdfourthlevel-commended-thewhyofshapes-ukulele_maths/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /discover/gallery/2024-thirdfourthlevel-commended-thewhyofshapes-ukulele_maths/ I took a photo of my ukulele, because though a lot of people don’t know, music has a lot of maths behind it (also because I find it more interesting than playing the piano)! To start off simple, everyone says a ukulele is the shape of the number “eight”. It is like this because this shape helps the distinctive sound of the ukulele by allowing for a larger soundboard area, which boosts the instrument’s resonance and volume. /discover/gallery/unified_bubble_751/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /discover/gallery/unified_bubble_751/ /discover/gallery/va_dundee/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /discover/gallery/va_dundee/ /discover/gallery/2023-thirdfourthlevel-commended-ootanaboot-vanessa_butterfly/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /discover/gallery/2023-thirdfourthlevel-commended-ootanaboot-vanessa_butterfly/ I took this photo when I went for a walk up at the Wall garden in Corstorphine Hill on the 24th September 2023 I used my mum’s phone camera. I stood closer to some flowers and I waited until the butterfly landed on these flowers. I used different angles to capture the butterfly with her wings open and display the symmetrical beautiful patterns and shapes of her wings. /discover/gallery/2022-seniorphase-commended-thewhyofshapes-volumebase_area_x_length/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /discover/gallery/2022-seniorphase-commended-thewhyofshapes-volumebase_area_x_length/ Prisms are something often come across in school, whether that’s in the maths or physics department. A prism is solid object with two identical ends and flat sides. The shape of the ends give the prism a name, such as the triangular prism in this photo. The thing that makes this prism so special, is actually the physics behind the shape. A prism like this works because as light passes through the prism, it slows and due to the differences in the refraction index between the air and the glass, light bends once entering the prism. /discover/gallery/walking/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /discover/gallery/walking/ /discover/gallery/wallpaper_patterns_1044/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /discover/gallery/wallpaper_patterns_1044/ /discover/gallery/2023-thirdfourthlevel-levelrunnerup-ootanaboot-wanderous_waves/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /discover/gallery/2023-thirdfourthlevel-levelrunnerup-ootanaboot-wanderous_waves/ Math is everywhere around us, including waves. Waves are created when wind blows over water and transfers energy to the water surface and creates waves. The speed of the wind, the distance the wind travels over the water and the length of time the waves travel for all contribute to the height and width of the waves. (Wind speed x wind duration x fetch distance) As the water becomes shallower, the waves rise, and eventually its potential energy is converted into kinetic energy. /discover/gallery/water_under_the_bridge_48/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /discover/gallery/water_under_the_bridge_48/ /discover/gallery/2023-firstlevel-commended-ootanaboot-waves/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /discover/gallery/2023-firstlevel-commended-ootanaboot-waves/ What time will the tide come in? Will i get across safely? /discover/gallery/ways_to_scan/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /discover/gallery/ways_to_scan/ /discover/gallery/weather_maths_42/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /discover/gallery/weather_maths_42/ /discover/gallery/2023-secondlevel-commended-ootanaboot-what_a_flock/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /discover/gallery/2023-secondlevel-commended-ootanaboot-what_a_flock/ This photo is of a flock of geese on Islay. My Auntie works for the SNH and her job is to get out and about to count geese which involves a lot of maths. More than just counting. Firstly, the reason for counting the geese on Islay is because they damage crops and land and the farmers and land owners are compensated because of this, based on the amount of geese and the pressure they are put under. /discover/gallery/what_the_ladybug_heard_1204/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /discover/gallery/what_the_ladybug_heard_1204/ /discover/gallery/2023-secondlevel-commended-ootanaboot-whats_the_point/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /discover/gallery/2023-secondlevel-commended-ootanaboot-whats_the_point/ Did you know that a stag’s antlers can tell us a lot about them? Mainly their age. This stag was captured oot and about on Islay and we can tell it is about eleven or twelve years old. We know this because of the number of points it has per antler. Each year, it grows more points. We use the term ‘growing back’ as a stag gets older and the antler points start to go back. /discover/gallery/2024-earlyyears-commended-inthewild-whats_the_time_mr_wolf/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /discover/gallery/2024-earlyyears-commended-inthewild-whats_the_time_mr_wolf/ Our children were playing What’s The Time Mr Wolf in the wild. They were learning about times of the day, counting whilst taking the correct amount of steps to the corresponding time. Great fun was had learning about maths in the wild. /discover/gallery/2023-seniorphase-levelrunnerup-thewhyofshapes-wheel_of_class_318_at_glasgow_central/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /discover/gallery/2023-seniorphase-levelrunnerup-thewhyofshapes-wheel_of_class_318_at_glasgow_central/ A train’s wheels may look simple, but there is a slight difference to a regular wheel that maths helps explain. The ‘flat’ bit of the wheel that rests on the railhead is actually a truncated cone. The reason for this is when going around a corner, the outer edge of anything will need to travel a further distance, as proved when you see circles with a radius of 5 and 10 have a circumference of 31. /discover/gallery/2022-thirdfourthlevel-commended-inthewild-where_has_all_the_water_gone/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /discover/gallery/2022-thirdfourthlevel-commended-inthewild-where_has_all_the_water_gone/ The gravitational pull of the sun and moon on the earth causes low tide and high tide. On average there are 4 tides a day; 2 high, and 2 low, that are roughly 6 hours apart from each other. The Earth spins on its axis once a day. As any point on the Earth comes into alignment with the moon it will experience a high tide due to the pull from the moon causing a tidal bulge. /discover/gallery/whisky_tax_222/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /discover/gallery/whisky_tax_222/ /discover/gallery/who_ate_all_the_chocolates_1310/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /discover/gallery/who_ate_all_the_chocolates_1310/ /discover/gallery/2023-earlyyears-commended-thewhyofshapes-why_are_there_circles_in_the_water/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /discover/gallery/2023-earlyyears-commended-thewhyofshapes-why_are_there_circles_in_the_water/ On a walk at our local university grounds, Leyana asked, “Why are there circles in the water? How many circles are there? Are the swans using magic to make them?” She is 4 years old. :) /discover/gallery/2023-thirdfourthlevel-commended-thewhyofshapes-why_are_airliners_engines_shaped_circular/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /discover/gallery/2023-thirdfourthlevel-commended-thewhyofshapes-why_are_airliners_engines_shaped_circular/ Airliner jet intakes are round because the engines are round, and for subsonic-flight. That’s all you need as there isn’t that much pressure building up in the engines compared to supersonic flight — it’s easy and cheap to engineer, provides a clean airflow for the engine and unlike some other shape doesn’t present unnecessary frontal area that will only cause drag. The turbofans used in civil airliners operate at subsonic speeds and don’t require any shocks for flow deceleration. /discover/gallery/wimpy_words_686/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /discover/gallery/wimpy_words_686/ /discover/gallery/2022-earlyyears-levelbestcommentary-thewhyofshapes-wind_turbines/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /discover/gallery/2022-earlyyears-levelbestcommentary-thewhyofshapes-wind_turbines/ On a recent trip to Whitelee Windfarm, I asked my mum and dad why the wind turbines have three blades. After a little research and a visit to the visitor centre we found the answer. If a wind turbine only has two blades it will wobble when it is turned to face the wind, whereas with three blades the turbine can rotate smoothly because when one blade is pointing up, the other two are pointing at an angle. /discover/gallery/windswept/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /discover/gallery/windswept/ /discover/gallery/2022-secondlevel-commended-completethepattern-yellow/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /discover/gallery/2022-secondlevel-commended-completethepattern-yellow/ I think the pattern is red-blue-yellow. They are all primary colours. You can mix primary colours in different quantities to make other colours. We see a yellow buttercup because the petals absorb green and blue light but reflect yellow light. The petals are flat and strong and glossy. They are so good at reflecting yellow light that when I hold the buttercup under my chin it glows yellow. It’s not really anything to do with butter, although I do like that too. /discover/gallery/your_local_supermarket/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /discover/gallery/your_local_supermarket/ /discover/gallery/2022-firstlevel-commended-thewhyofshapes-zebra_patterns/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /discover/gallery/2022-firstlevel-commended-thewhyofshapes-zebra_patterns/ We liked the parallel lines and the squares that made a pattern. There are also rectangles inside the squares so there are loads of shapes. We chose this picture because we liked that the sun made more lines and shapes by making a shadow. So there are loads of patterns and shapes in the shadow too. We thought it looked like a zebra. /discover/gallery/zebras_in_the_wild/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /discover/gallery/zebras_in_the_wild/ /discover/gallery/zero_food_miles_1108/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /discover/gallery/zero_food_miles_1108/ /discover/gallery/zeros__ones/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /discover/gallery/zeros__ones/