Every Scout campsite I have been to has its own atmosphere and special features, but I think I might have found a new all-time all-around favourite location. This weekend’s statewide Clark Trophy competition camp was held at Fulton Park, near the tiny town of Forth on Tassie’s northwest coast (about 280km from Hobart). There are lovely […]
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Dramatis persona*
Helen Chick
I've always wanted a bumper sticker that said "I'm a female, LDS/Mormon, Scout leading, geocaching, piano-playing, bicycling, mathematics educator with a PhD in maths ... and I VOTE"! I think this makes me a minority group of cardinality 1! * Since there's only one of me and "personae" is plural (I think), I've gone with dramatis persona. Visits since May 2016 |
This year I have done the “Barbie Bungee” activity with my pre-service secondary maths teachers. In the confines of the classroom the students gather data about the length of a Barbie doll’s fall for each of a variety of different bungee lengths (with this length given in terms of the “number of rubber bands” making up the […] I knew 12 of 12 was coming and I had vague plans of doing another “record a typical day” kind of thing, but I kept forgetting about it as the morning progressed or else I didn’t have my camera with me when I remembered (and I wasn’t in an iPhone photo mood). The day was also a […] It was a glorious day today, and so I did a 6km walk around Lindisfarne Point. There are fantastic views of the Derwent and so I stopped and did a sequence of photos to make a panorama (hindered by having water in the picture and by the fact that the camera was set for wide angle, […] I’m not sure if there’s something special about the last three weeks, but they have been good for moody effects on the mountain (it also helps that the days are longer, which means that it is no longer dark most of the time I’m at home and awake!). These photos are essentially presented in order from […] |
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