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In relation to what we learned on Tuesday, I found it quite interesting about the fact that infinity could be reduced to a simple fraction although i am still baffled by it. As for the interesting topic, to be honest, the first topic that caught my eye was Play: The Mathematics behind games. I never knew there was a concept of mathematics behind games. It would be interesting to learn about such a topic.

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Yesterdays’s lesson was quite surprising as I learnt that maths can be quite startling!!!!!. I found this lesson to be so much different to our normal maths lessons. I believe that in this course i’m going to unwind loads of surprises each lesson. 

Paradox is the topic that I would like to explore because looking at numbers with a persepective in different equations seems really interesting to me!!

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Heyy! 🙂

The main thing that I learnt from yesterday’s
lesson is that there are many ways to interpret different questions. It showed
me that Maths is a very analytical, and the answer will not necessarily be what
you think. I feel as though this lesson changed my understanding of numbers,
and uncovered a new layer of interpretation.

The topic that I am looking forward to is “Math
Error: What it means to be undefined” I think this is an interesting topic, and
I am looking forward to understanding it.

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Hey Sir,

Yesterday I learnt that maths is a huge contradiction in  itself. It allows for no vagueness as seen when three seemingly different series’ linked together and effectively all “equaled” each other and although the answer was there as (-1/12), I also learnt that the ‘answer’ still causes much debate as it leaves so much unanswered. To sum it up (maths pun because I can), maths seems like a complete new ‘world’  where numbers are the language.

Anyways, I find the idea of cryptography to be intriguing as it’s something I’m hearing about in mathematics for the first time.

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Yesterday’s lesson was fantastic!!!! It literally reinterested me in maths. I learnt what I thought I’d never learn. How maths doesn’t always make logical sense, and that really interests me. I’d also never learnt much about sequences, and that was an awesome introduction. Why it interested me? It made me rethink what maths is and what it can do.

The subject I think will be most interesting (to myself) would have to be the paradoxes. I’m not quite sure why, but I haven’t really looked at this much in the past and I’m curious about how it works (even thought it doesn’t).

Looking forward to an awesome semester,

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Hello!

I found the first
lesson very interesting. I learned that thinking in a different way may produce results which are not usually expected. What may seem logical may not always be the answer, and can be quite controversial. I was surprised at how the
series resulted in a negative fraction.

Out of all the
topics on the list, I find “Paradoxes: When Maths doesn’t make sense”
the most appealing because it sounds intriguing. The first lesson proved that math can be very
confusing and can contradict itself, so I would like to see more examples of this and explore the idea of paradoxes.

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(I don’t know if this will work :/)
1.Yesterday we had the first lesson of ‘Exploring Mathematics’ and it was already mind-blowing. The series that was introduced did actually make me think. It was surprising because it looked like a simple equation but the result came out as completely different answer. In the end 1+2+3+4+…= -1/12. It came out as a negative and as a fraction which surprised me.

2. The topic that I predict it will be interesting is ‘Paradoxes: When Mathematics Doesn’t Make Sense,’ because sometimes maths makes no sense like the series given and I became interested in that.

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From James.Yoo

Through the study of various series I learnt that in maths there is not always one definite answer. This not only surprised me but made me wonder how a series that I once thought leads to infinity results in a number that is not only a negative but is a fraction.

I am looking forward to studying the topic of Cryptography: The Mathematics of Secrecy as I enjoy encrypting codes using ciphers to denote secret messages.
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Form our first lesson of
Exploring Maths I learnt that maths is quite a creative subject. What may
appear at first obvious, at second glance may turn out to be quite fascinating.
Just as the proof that we were presented with on our first day which showed
that 1+2+3+4+5….to infinity=-1/12. The idea at first seemed dumbfounding;
however the proof made perfect sense. I’d always thought math to be a
subject that was logical, structured and definite. But, I have learned it’s
quite the opposite. Surprisingly, it can often be illogical, infinite and
undefined.

The topic of paradoxes immediately
grabbed my attention. Paradoxes generally intrigue me. The simple fact that a
question, especially in a subject like maths, doesn’t have a definite answer seems
exciting. In a strange way I want maths to baffle and amaze me. Looking forward
to it making me think.

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