Arthur Benjamin does Mathemagic

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In a lively show, mathemagician Arthur Benjamin races a team of calculators to figure out 3 digit squares, solves another massive mental equation and guesses a few birthdays. How does he do it? He ll tell you.

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The only arithmetic he ever got was hearing the referee count up to 10.

Not mathematics, mind you, arithmetic.

Math is a much broader subject than calculating.

We make it come alive with equations, a lot of mathematics.

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If you're a mathematician, you get that, because Marston was a mathematician who objected to the computer being there.

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The pension contribution of creative and performing artists equals 29 per cent of the basis of calculation.

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And it's specifically algorithms, which are basically the math that computers use to decide stuff.

But in education it looks very different dumbed down problems, lots of calculating, mostly by hand.

This? Well, that's a matter of simple mathematics.

In the academic year of 2000 2001, 33 of the total number of students in Latvia studied at the expense of the state budget, 67 of the total number studied for funds of legal or natural persons.

The Committee is further concerned about the low quality of education in many schools to the extent that there are many children who, despite several years of school attendance, cannot read and write or do basic calculations.

They do the simple mathematics, averaging, etc., etc.

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They published my first book, Flying Fingers, you see it here and from there on, it's gone to speaking at hundreds of schools, keynoting to thousands of educators and finally, today, speaking to you.

As you've heard from many of the talks, statistics underpins an enormous amount of research in science in social science, in medicine and indeed, quite a lot of industry.

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It's a huge effort that goes into doing this, gathering the data and developing the algorithms, writing all the software.

So another one that comes up is Computers dumb math down.

If you were born after computers and paper, it doesn't really matter which order you're taught with them in, you just want to have the best tool.

From rockets to stock markets, many of humanity's most thrilling creations are powered by math. So why do kids lose interest in it? Conrad Wolfram says the part of math we teach calculation by hand isn't just tedious, it's mostly irrelevant to real mathematics and the real world. He presents his radical idea teaching kids math through computer programming.

They're starting to find new mathematical structures in these calculations.

It can be used for calculating mathematical equations of all different types.

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So this is really what's enabling us to deal with the explosion of data in medicine, together with some really nifty work in terms of algorithms compressing data, extracting the relevant information that people are doing research on.

AB 25. Now, the way we can square on most calculators let me demonstrate with this one is by taking the number, such as five, hitting times and then equals, and on most calculators that will give you the square.

Similarly, the Astronomer Royal, whom we heard speak yesterday, also has a 50 percent probability estimate.

So just because paper was invented before computers, it doesn't necessarily mean you get more to the basics of the subject by using paper instead of a computer to teach mathematics.

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Statistical Probability Mapping then performs mathematical calculations to determine whether any of these abnormalities are clinically significant, allowing us to provide a much more accurate neurological diagnosis of the child's symptoms.

Now, I'm a great believer that mathematics is not a spectator sport, and you have to do some mathematics in order to really understand it.

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So I believe there is critical reform we have to do in computer based math.