Milking Experience ~~ Facinating!

When we were at Melbourne, we had the experience to witness the milking process, also to experience ourself the manual milking process ~ squeezing the cow to collect milk!

I was not dare to do it as I was so afraid of the cow, thinking that she will kick me when I squeeze her.. My younger one and my hubby found it interesting and volunteered themselves. We captured the very own milking process ~ the rare experience for those who stay in a city in Malaysia..

Enjoy it and make sure you try this when you are in Australia next time ~ don't act like me who missed the chance in life time.. I guess I will do it next time - in my dream only lah :-)

Tessellations in Mathematics

Tessellations in Mathematics:

Shapes which tessellate cover the plane without gaps and without overlapping. There can only be three regular Tessellations on a 2D plane which are made from copies of a single regular polygon meeting at each vertex. These are of equilateral triangles, squares or regular hexagons. There are only three because the inside angles of the polygon must be a factor of 360° so that the polygons can line up at the points leaving no gaps.

The Three Regular Tessellations on 2D Plane.

Here are some interesting links about tessellations

http://www.coolmath.com/tesspag1.htm
http://mathforum.org/sum95/suzanne/whattess.html

http://www.tessella.com/about/what-are-tessellations/http://www.shodor.org/interactivate1.0/discussions/tessintro.html

http://www.shodor.org/interactivate1.0/activities/tessellate/index.html

Parenting

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Creative Mathematics

Teaching Primary Mathematics using calculator: Multiplication
by KidMultiply (KidMultiply).

When teaching kids to multiply, use a calculator to help them learn to "skip count".
For example, when learning the seven times tables, you would give students a calculator and have them type 7.
The whole class responds chorally, "7 times one equals 7".
Then everyone types " + 7 = " into the calculator. And the calculator reads "14." The kids all say, "Seven times two equals 14."
Then hit the equals key again. The calculator shows 21. The kids all say, "Seven times three equals 21."
They hit equals again and the calculator shows twenty-eight. And so on.
This is a great lesson because:
1. It teaches kids that multiplication is really repeated addition.
2. It teaches them to skip count to find multiples.
3. It can be done to teach students to multiply by any factor.

Health

Precautions only way to contain H1N1 flu

With no vaccine for the H1N1 flu, the only way to contain the virus is to get people around the world to take precautionary measures, a Dutch researcher said.
Johannes Brug, director of the EMGO Institute for Health and Care Research at the VU University Medical Center in Amsterdam and colleagues wrote in a special editorial in the International Journal of Behavioral Medicine said that there are three key parameters that convince people to take precautions against a pandemic.
"Firstly, they need to be aware of the risk to them. Secondly, they need to believe that effective protective actions are available and have confidence in them," the authors said in a statement. "Lastly, communications about risk need to be carefully managed so that they express the actual risk accurately to prevent mass scares."
The authors review the importance of risk perception and show that for people to voluntarily take precautionary actions, it is essential that they are aware of and understand the risk.
"Risk communication messages that are not comprehended by the public at risk, or communication of conflicting risk messages will result in lack of precautionary actions, as will communications from a non-trustworthy source," the researchers wrote.
"However, risk communication messages are sometimes very quickly adopted by the media, possibly leading to an 'amplification' of risk information that may lead to unnecessary mass scares and unnecessary or ineffective precautionary action."

Education

Education in its broadest sense is any act or experience that has a formative effect on the mind, character, or physical ability of an individual. In its technical sense education is the process by which society deliberately transmits its accumulated knowledge, skills and values from one generation to another through institutions.
Teachers in such institutions direct the education of students and might draw on many subjects, including reading, writing, mathematics, science and history. This process is sometimes called schooling when referring to the education of youth. Teachers in specialized professions such as astrophysics, law, or zoology may teach only a certain subject, usually as professors at institutions of higher learning. There is also education in fields for those who want specific vocational skills, such as those required to be a pilot. In addition there is an array of education possible at the informal level, e.g., at museums and libraries, with the Internet, and in life experience.
The right to education has been described as a basic human right: since 1952, Article 2 of the first Protocol to the European Convention on Human Rights obliges all signatory parties to guarantee the right to education. At world level, the United Nations' International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights of 1966 guarantees this right under its Article 13.

Family

My family and I just came back from a trip to Melbourne. The trip was very interesting and I learnt a lot from this trip, from culture, to education system. The food is also yummy, many variety food from different nations.

Melbourne is a city filled with creativity, everyway from street, to bus, to tram, to train -> everywhere..

We enjoyed the trip very much.......

Australia, we will meet u again!

ANALISIS ITEM

Kelas Kreatif Matematik pada hari ini sungguh menarik. Saya telah belajar membina blog sendiri. Ia sungguh menyeronokkan. Saya ingin mengucapkan ribuan terima kasih kepada Encik Ariston kerana menyumbangkan masanya dalam mengajar kami.