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Six good comics and one good thing

Today’s post is, in an incredibly roundabout way, also another post from the prompt list. I’ve had one of those slightly lazy days consisting of mostly watching telly in between loading and unloading the washing machine (festival mud is hard to remove), and decided that my brain wasn’t loving the idea of writing a proper post, although I’ve reserved some of the prompts for next week when I’m more with it.

Anyway, the prompt “Whatโ€™s your โ€œOne Good Thingโ€ for today?” looked suitably short, so I decided to find out what it is. A quick Google (because I didn’t know what One Good Thing is) lead me to Rachael’s One Good Thing, which is a lovely webcomic/diary. I did a bit of clicking, cause I like that kind of thing, then decided that today’s post should be about webcomics. As this is supposed to be a maths teaching blog, it seemed most appropriate to post about maths webcomics, so here’s a short selection of good ones – pictures link to the original site.

xkcd.com
Indexed
Foxtrot
Spiked Math
Abtruse Goose
Brown Sharpie

And my One Good Thing?

I finished knitting my festival scarf…

…just in time for the end of festival season. 

Never mind, eh?

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xkcd Percentages comics

Following my trawl through the xkcd archives to find my favourite comics for A Level, I thought I may as well post some that may be relevant for KS3 and GCSE. There are plenty of funny graphs and pie charts (great for the last five minutes of a lesson), and a few topic-related strips.

This post contains a few percentages comics; while they’re quite funny, they also have quite a bit of mileage in terms of mathematical discussion, particularly “Hand Sanitizer” and “Fastest Growing”.

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xkcd comics for A Level

If you haven’t heard ofย xkcdย (click now and lose three hours), it’s a webcomic run by Randall Monroe focusing on maths, science and computing. Although some of his comics (mostly the coding ones) go over my head, the maths-based ones are hilarious, and some are great for sharing in lessons – with the caveat that some do contain naughty jokes, so check first. Here’s my pick of a few particularly relevant to the A Level syllabus.

Pure

Statistics

Mechanics

Decision

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