Your Shortcut to... The Secret World of Maths

We can find it in shells, flowers, pinecones and snails... it's needed in sport, construction, space exploration and more... and it pairs very nicely with a sweet, flaky dessert.

Squiz Kids Shortcuts give you and your primary-aged kids the who, what, when, where, why, and how of the big news stories.

LINKS:

TedEd on Pi: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9a5vHXsUvUw

Jaden Chong recites Pi to 1,800 places: https://9now.nine.com.au/a-current-affair/melbourne-sevenyearold-memory-boy-becomes-sensation-remembering-pi/caf43ef6-dc39-486b-89eb-a79bfba64641

How to count seed spirals on a sunflower: https://momath.org/home/fibonacci-numbers-of-sunflower-seed-spirals/

The Fibonacci sequence spiral: https://www.mathsisfun.com/numbers/fibonacci-sequence.html

More Fibonacci:

https://www.naturphilosophie.co.uk/fibonaccis-golden-spiral-relationship-maths-nature/

https://mathimages.swarthmore.edu/index.php/Fibonacci_Numbers

NASA's Starshade: https://exoplanets.nasa.gov/resources/1015/flower-power-nasa-reveals-spring-starshade-animation/

Maths in art: https://www.sciencenewsforstudents.org/article/math-is-muse-for-these-artists