Let’s explore last week’s theme of Math. The word Mathematics comes from the Greek μάθημα (máthēma), which in ancient Greek means “that which is learnt”. The basics of math, counting, can be traced to prehistoric peoples, but more complex math did not appear until 3000 BC with the Babylonians and the Ancient Egyptians. The most […]
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The Weekend Assignment: Math
What did we learn from last weekend’s assignment on travel? Let us begin at the beginning with the migration of Homo Sapiens (that’s us) from Africa through to Eurasia around 70,000 years ago. By 40,000 years BCE humanity expanded to Australia, Asia and Europe. After that, around 20,000 to 15,000 years ago, humanity migrated to […]
The Weekend Assignment: Travel
Let’s explore what was learned from the last Weekend Assignment’s theme, communication. Around 196 BC a congress of priests gathered in Memphis, Egypt to inscribe a stele (stone slab) with the decree of their new king, Ptolemy V. This Memphis decree was later unearthed by the French Expeditionary army, led by Napoleon Bonaparte, in 1799. […]
The Weekend Assignment: Communication
What is the first thing you think of when you hear App? Last weekend the assignment was to learn something new about Apps. Here is what I learned. The first thing I think about when I hear App is a mobile application, but application software is any ‘computer program designed to perform a group of […]
The Weekend Assignment: Apps
In the previous Weekend Assignment we endeavoured to learn about Data. The creation of data, such as an image, a video, and this blog are ever on the rise, with more data created in the last 2 years than all of preceding history. According to a blog by Northeastern University the total amount of data […]