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Fractals and power laws
Year 6 explored fractals and power laws in our latest Post-Grad to Prep Mostly Maths session hosted by Dr Porges.
Our Post-grad to Prep Mostly Maths programme is a series of workshops designed to confound expectations, ignite curiosity, channel investigation and inspire a love of Maths with a bit of philosophy, art and science mixed in! Following on from previous workshops on deterministic chaos, permutations and non-Euclidean geometry, Year 6 investigated how Maths can be used to describe and measure complex, irregular shapes.
The session delved into the work of renowned mathematicians such as Lewis Richardson, Niels Helge von Koch, Hermann Minkowski and George Cantor to understand how we can measure infinitely detailed natural objects like coastlines. The children explored famous fractals including the Koch curve, Cantor set, Sierpinski triangle and Gosper island to develop an understanding of how these ideas can be applied to nature - from plants and landscapes to the neurons in our brain.
