{"id":194827,"date":"2020-12-10T15:31:46","date_gmt":"2020-12-10T11:31:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/?p=194827"},"modified":"2020-12-10T15:31:53","modified_gmt":"2020-12-10T11:31:53","slug":"mathematics-in-tok","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/2020\/12\/10\/mathematics-in-tok\/","title":{"rendered":"Mathematics in TOK"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>This week, students started exploring mathematics as an area of knowledge. We looked at questions such as \u201cIs mathematics a language?\u201d And \u201cWhat is the importance of mathematics to other areas of knowledge?\u201d One of our activities this week was creating our own number system and trying it out with equations. This helped to explore the claim that mathematics is a universal language. Below are some creative examples of number systems from our grade 11 students. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"685\" data-src=\"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/17\/2020\/12\/img_1208.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-194822 lazyload\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/17\/2020\/12\/img_1208.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/17\/2020\/12\/img_1208-980x671.jpg 980w, https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/17\/2020\/12\/img_1208-480x329.jpg 480w\" data-sizes=\"(min-width: 0px) and (max-width: 480px) 480px, (min-width: 481px) and (max-width: 980px) 980px, (min-width: 981px) 1000px, 100vw\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 1000px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 1000\/685;\" \/><figcaption>From Akshay.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"530\" data-src=\"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/17\/2020\/12\/img_1211.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-194823 lazyload\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/17\/2020\/12\/img_1211.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/17\/2020\/12\/img_1211-980x519.jpg 980w, https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/17\/2020\/12\/img_1211-480x254.jpg 480w\" data-sizes=\"(min-width: 0px) and (max-width: 480px) 480px, (min-width: 481px) and (max-width: 980px) 980px, (min-width: 981px) 1000px, 100vw\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 1000px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 1000\/530;\" \/><figcaption>From Dean.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"756\" height=\"1000\" data-src=\"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/17\/2020\/12\/img_1212.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-194824 lazyload\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/17\/2020\/12\/img_1212.jpg 756w, https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/17\/2020\/12\/img_1212-480x635.jpg 480w\" data-sizes=\"(min-width: 0px) and (max-width: 480px) 480px, (min-width: 481px) 756px, 100vw\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 756px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 756\/1000;\" \/><figcaption>Some of Dean\u2019s questions.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"813\" height=\"1000\" data-src=\"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/17\/2020\/12\/img_1209.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-194825 lazyload\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/17\/2020\/12\/img_1209.jpg 813w, https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/17\/2020\/12\/img_1209-480x590.jpg 480w\" data-sizes=\"(min-width: 0px) and (max-width: 480px) 480px, (min-width: 481px) 813px, 100vw\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 813px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 813\/1000;\" \/><figcaption>Work from Noah, Kavya, and Lizzy.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week, students started exploring mathematics as an area of knowledge. We looked at questions such as \u201cIs mathematics a language?\u201d And \u201cWhat is the importance of mathematics to other areas of knowledge?\u201d One of our activities this week was creating our own number system and trying it out with equations. This helped to explore [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":580,"featured_media":194826,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[99,194,106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-194827","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-grade-11","category-dp","category-tok"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194827","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/580"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=194827"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194827\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/194826"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194827"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194827"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}