Display Materials
- Mr January: Fermat - and his big problem
- Mr February: Galois - young and foolish?
- Mr March: Fibonacci - rabbits, rabbits, rabbits
- Mr April: Pascal - nearly invented the sandwich
- Mr May: Descartes - a fan of beef tea
- Mr June: Pythagoras - you need this too
- Mr July: Babbage - monster calculator
- Mr September: Newton - England's finest
- Mr October: Archimedes - Greek genius
- Mr November: Ramanujan - and the number 1729
- Miss December: Somerville - and the arctic island
Some alternatives!
- Mr January: Gauss - child prodigy
- Mr November: Polya - Professor Euclide Paracelso Bobasto Umbugio of Guayazuela?
- Mr December: Heron - prolific inventor
The following publications were invaluable sources of information in the production of 'Mathematician of the Month'; Historical Connections in Mathematics, volumes 1, 2 & 3, by Wilbert Reimer and Luetta Reimer; Men of Mathematics, volumes 1 & 2, by E.T.Bell
Codes and Ciphers
- A series of posters on the History of Codes
- Two graphs that are needed to go with the posters above
Classroom Essentials
- Cut out, lamninate, hole-punch and thread: you will have a negative number washing line!
Mathematician of the Month