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Caption: Different Maths #5ftinf #pechakucha #synaesthesia
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Caption: Last week I did my first #pechakucha talk here in Brighton: 20 slides and 20 seconds to talk about each slide...
I decided to talk about my own version of 'synaesthetic' maths; colours, angles, things and feelings all without an 'equals'...more of an algebra with objects...
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Caption: I wish maths and music notation had looked like this...
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Caption: I colour coded my sticker collection in my hymn book at school...
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Caption: I made this when I was 7... I wanted the 'S' to be yellow but I was told they had to be the same ( 'P' and 'S' are not the same colour... )
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Caption: The brown hues of 1970's home decor were difficult for a colour loving child...
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Caption: As an adult I was able to change that...
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Caption: This book looked like it was going to be written in my language...objects and colours
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Caption: It seemed to encourage collecting...
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Caption: ...looking at nice things and counting
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Caption: That's what I like to do...
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Caption: ...although I'm not really interested in those numbers on the left...
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Caption: ...I'm interested in maths aesthetics...
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Caption: Collecting fruit and matching colours...
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Caption: ( This is a complex piece of orange algebra...)
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Caption: 'Addition Made Easy' starts to get harder...
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Caption: ...and now my colour algebra is very complex...
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Caption: ...and sometimes I even show my workings out!
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Caption: More at:
www.5ftinf.com