Fractal Enrichment

As part of Enrichment 2012 we have been creating Fractal art work.  Most designs are based on Koch Curves, Sierpinski Triangles and similar, but we have also explored the maths of the Mandelbrot!
Here are some of our creations...

This last one is our fractal wall of fractals...

And to finish - a maths / fractal joke...

Q:   What does the B stand for in Benoit B Mandelbrot?

A:  Benoit B Mandelbrot...

Design a Theme Park

Today was the Year 7 Economic Well Being "Design a Theme Park" day.  As well as teams from John Bentley we welcomed Y5 teams from many of our feeder primaries.

This was a house competition, and so here are the preliminary results....

In the J half of the year...

100 Points go to Lansdowne for an average profit of £76 756
80 Points go to Shelbourne for an average profit of £74 717
60 points to Kerry for their average profit of £71 236
and 40 points to Fitzmaurice for their profit of £66 254


In the B half...

Kerry get 100  for their £80320 profit
Fitzmaurice get 80for their £72 713
Lansdowne get 60with an average £63 932 profit
and Shelbourne get 40 for their £63 696.


A special mention to the overall winning team of Reckless Resort from Lansdowne, who made an overall profit of £91 891.


In the primary competition, there was an impressive average of £65 179 (beating some of our year 7!), and a special mention to the Hilmarton team of BubbleGum, who made an impressive £84 637.

Congratulations to all, and well done.

Chernoff Faces

Chernoff faces are an unusual way of looking at data.  Instead of putting data into a bar chart or pie chart, you turn the data into facial features.  Here is an example from Wikipedia. (Click on the picture to see a larger version!).There are lots of ways of decorating a face, you can change the face shape, nose size, even how far apart the eyes are!

Here is a graphic showing what you can do...

We decided to find out a bit more about our visiting year 5, and so got them to draw Chernoff faces using these rules...

Having learnt a little more about each other we sorted our faces into groups using Venn Diagrams.

At open evening, we also asked many of our visiting students to do new Chernoff Faces with these new rules

Can you spot the staff faces?  Can you spot yours?

Open Evening - Data Handling

Welcome to open evening 2012!

Here are the results of some of the data collection being done in school.

Check back for Ghost Blaster results over the weekend!