Today I've mostly bin...

[kathlyn]

Went for a walk to a local weir to watch the salmon leap up it, unfortunately they weren't very good at it we only saw a few half hearted attempts.

[Bunnylump]

We had a nice walk in the sunshine today. And then I came home to find my daughter panicking because she was supposed to have had a display made for her classroom and had loads of planning to do. So MUGGINS got to cut and stick and draw a massive treasure island map with a maths theme. Actually I quite enjoyed myself...it had things like Multiplication Mountain and Subtraction Swamp on it...

[MBH]

LOL - Love it.... Through the Caves of Calculus to the Fractional Forrest. Blocked by a Binary Barrier so you need to change your Base. If you make a wrong turn would you be making a Linier Progression down a Standard Deviation?

This is great - you could set it for any level

[tricia]

Actually I quite enjoyed myself...it had things like Multiplication Mountain and Subtraction Swamp on it...

But you dont do numbers Bunny or having you been telling Porkies
Tricia

[Cenwulf]

Bunnies do do numbers: they are very good at multiplying.
And they also inspired Fibonacci: He did a mathematical exercise about rabbits which produce a pair of young (one male, one female) every month, and a new pair take one month to mature, only reproducing when they reach maturity. If you start with an immature pair, the result is the Fibonacci sequence (1 1 2 3 5 8 13 21...).

[LAT]

A Fibonacci Bunny? or a Bunny that tells fib(onacci)s

Today I've been running on empty having been up in the early hours placing bowls under drips that appeared when it was raining heavily.

Ho hum!

[Bunnylump]

Oh trust me Tricia, there was ABSOLUTELY no maths involved (well, apart from measuring it out and drawing co-ordinates on it). Just mathematical terms and lots and lots of drawing, cutting, and sticking!! I need some light relief from B..... spreadsheets, which is what I've been doing today AGAIN. Anyone got any jobs going? I don't get to do what I'm good at these days. Just spend my time paper pushing and working things out. I miss having fun with the kids.

[MBH]

I need some light relief from B..... spreadsheets,

I was asked for some help with a weird Word Processing problem, and found a woman typing tide times (for the YEAR) from a spreadsheet into a 'table' on Word.

Her problem was that she didn't need 2 of the 8 columns and it needed to be in Word to link onto the website [allegedly].

She'd been at it all morning and got to mid-March. I re-did January for her in 3 minutes flat. I could save SO MUCH waste if only I knew it was happening.

My line manager then had some information he needed involving days each site was open in the month of October, certian 'tasks' in that time, and a different task that only started on the 18th of the month onwards. He'd done it by pen & paper for 1 of the 21 sites. Within the hour I had the final single figure he needed - the proof as to why it was right - and a spreadsheet that can be re-used if they have any more questions like that in the future.

Spreadsheets are BRILLIANT!!!!!!!!

[gill216]

I'm putting you down for a spreadsheet workshop at the next meet MBH!!!

[Bunnylump]

I just can't be doing with them. These are just massively tedious lists of pupils in various exams, what they're needing, what time, who's working with them and where they're doing it. It's MIND NUMBING. I'd far rather be working with people. I kept finding excuses to stop doing it ( tripping up passing 6th formers, chatting up one of the invigilators, hiding a gnome in the office to see if anyone noticed... )

[LAT]

hiding a gnome in the office to see if anyone noticed... )

Did anyone?

Today I've been in Canterbury. We walked around the town looking at lots of wonderful old buildings, had a pub lunch and then went round the Cathedral which is lovely.

[Bunnylump]

Yes, Canterbury is lovely, isn't it? We went there for a girl's weekend and had a really nice time.

Nobody's spotted the gnome yet...

[LAT]

I love the idea of a lurking gnome with unsuspecting people working round it.

We had lunch in a pub called the Parrot. There was a real parrot in a large cage. His name was Bert which he would utter from time to time in a very gruff male voice. And then he would say "hello" in a very genteel ladies voice.

[SparkOut]

Today I've been in Canterbury.

Is about 20 miles from here.

[Bunnylump]

And you didn't invite LAT round for a cuppa? Shame on you!!

[gill216]

I was wondering where Here is.

I 've never heard of a place called Here and I cant find it on a map.

[Bunnylump]

It's a strange mystery land where an unnamed man who wears a slightly tattered cloak of anonymity lives (on a pile of chicken poo, as I recall) with children named Pumpkin and Monkey, I believe... See, nothing gets past me...

[SparkOut]

And you didn't invite LAT round for a cuppa? Shame on you!!

...lives (on a pile of chicken poo, as I recall)

I think you already discovered why I'm not sure she'd have been that keen.

[clvrlad]

I was wondering where Here is.

I 've never heard of a place called Here and I cant find it on a map.

well here's a google map just for you

[Bunnylump]

Certes, M. SparkOut n'est pas une grenouille?