I often scan the daily newspapers for good, bad or funny examples of the use of statistics. Today in papers such as the Courier Mail and the Herald-Sun, we find the breaking story “Over half of men wear same undies for 3 days”. The stats are claimed...

WHO AM I ? 1.  Some consider me to be the most famous Mathematician of all time. Others scoff at this suggestion. 2.  My middle name was “Lutwidge”. 3.  I discovered that there are 30 different ways to paint the faces of a cube with 6 different...

I have taken a big dose of truth serum and here are the results: 1. I LOVE IMAGES! If I browse a blog and it doesn’t have any images, videos, slide shows, etc, then I usually don’t add it to diigo, delicious or only2clicks. An exception to this is...

Had a bit of fun with my Year 9 Maths class this week (MATHS = FUN)! I challenged each student to choose a Maths topic and then I would give them an impromptu question to answer. They could not use a calculator (or mobile device), and could not use...

As I’m writing this post, I notice that the number of “hits” on my blog, since I started it in February this year is 6666! More important blog statistics are shown on my Webmaths dashboard. The graph shows how many hits my site gets each day as shown...