Planning
You may sometimes find it difficult to know where to start with a task as open-ended as this. While it is hoped that you will appreciate the richness of opportunities for mathematical exploration, it may sometimes be useful to be provided by a stimulus as a means of helping you to get started on your explorations.
Possible stimuli that could be given include:
| Sport archaeology computers algorithms cell phones music sine musical harmony |
food Volcanoes diet Euler games symmetry architecture codes |
health dance play pi (π) geography biology business economics |
| motion e electricity water space orbits |
the internet communication tiling population agriculture viruses |
physics chemistry psychology information technology in a global society |
A possible mind map for the stimulus “water”
The mind map below illustrates how, starting with the stimulus “water”, some possible foci for a mathematical exploration could be generated.
