Emily Hughes

Graphic Designer and Preservice Teacher (Food & Textiles, Mathematics, Visual Arts)

[Sarah Cottinghatt @SCottinghatt]

*Memory* is incredibly interesting.

I've been studying it for a few years and hardly scratched the surface!

Here are 3 key things I've learned and what I think they might mean for teachers... 🧵

[Emily Hughes @EmilyLHughes]

@nomad_penguin Also just how collaborative maths can be and the benefit of working with others, combining strengths, to reach the solution.

[Emily Hughes @EmilyLHughes]

@nomad_penguin Secondly, there was a task I remember you doing with us at Uni, where you asked us to prove that we were right, that we had found every viable answer (sequences that have the same median/mode). This has changed how I check my work, as now I try prove to myself that it's correct.

[Emily Hughes @EmilyLHughes]

105 minute long theory classes are a struggle to get through. Anyone have ideas on some good brain break activities that take 5-10 minutes for a class of yr 9's?

[Emily Hughes @EmilyLHughes]

One thing I will have to have a go at later was with the cranes- that if unfolded and coloured in in a manner that has no two adjacent shapes being the same colour, limited to two colours, that one side of the crane will be one colour, and the other side the other.

[Emily Hughes @EmilyLHughes]

Just attended a fascinating workshop by Helen Booth on origami and mathematics. Was really interesting to investigate origami as a creative and hands on application of mathematics #MASA2021

[Emily Hughes @EmilyLHughes]

It was fascinating to think through the Bryony triangle as well. We were required to fold up this shape, and colour one of the smallest triangles. On unfolding, the question was what fraction of the paper is now coloured in. A great fractions and critical thinking problem.

[Emily Hughes @EmilyLHughes]

@DavidKButlerUoA @mathemaniac @cass_lowry @katherinequane My creations from this session. Was a lot of fun, always good to explore mathematics in such a playful format!

[Emily Hughes @EmilyLHughes]

Just sewed myself a mask with a pocket that allows me to put in something that filters better than what fabric does on its own.

[Emily Hughes @EmilyLHughes]

@PebblesCST Oof

[Emily Hughes @EmilyLHughes]

Took some fun photos of my spare ruler stash- New banner material!

[Emily Hughes @EmilyLHughes]

Less zoomed in

[Emily Hughes @EmilyLHughes]

Rotunda roofs have a lot of nice lines

[Emily Hughes @EmilyLHughes]

Another version with a similar idea with the hearts but this time only a quarter of the cube is coloured (the grid I was using to track the area coloured is more clear here)

[Emily Hughes @EmilyLHughes]

One of the things we did at #100factorial today was colouring in half of a cube. Got a bit creative with some of my designs

[Emily Hughes @EmilyLHughes]

I started working with making each face a 4x4 grid, and so knowing I needed 48 of the resulting small squares to colour half of the cube. A large heart was equivalent to 10 of those squares and the four smaller ones were equivalent to 6 squares

[Emily Hughes @EmilyLHughes]

Found this book of puzzles and riddles at savers today and I am obsessed with how pretty it is

[Emily Hughes @EmilyLHughes]

@DavidKButlerUoA @JeremyInSTEM Well we didnt sort the new colours so you'll at least be able to swim in those :P

[Emily Hughes @EmilyLHughes]

Soooo at #100factorial @JeremyInSTEM, Amy and I may have sorted the box again @DavidKButlerUoA 😂