PYTHAGORAS

 

For my history club presentation this month I was Pythagoras and I talked about  my life, my discoveries,  the schools I opened, my influence on maths and music, etc. I talked about my theorem (a2+b2=c2) and I gave a demonstration by using cut out squares. I made a lyre to explain how octaves are created by halving strings.

I explained the Pythagorean Theorem with paper squares.

And this is how you can prove it.

I made the lyre from boxes, styrofoam and paper mache.

 I painted it and added strings.

This is the finished result. It looks good hey.

 

POMPEII EXHIBITION

 This week I went to an exhibition about Pompeii which was really good. I learned about the eruption when I was reading The Roman Mysteries but this was interesting to see the casts of the bodies that were lying in the streets and of the things they had in their houses at the time the volcano erupted.

There was also a documentary that was a like a movie and showed what it must have been like for the people in those final hours.

Estas tres fotos son del internet.

GREEK PHILOSOPHERS AND PYTHAGORAS

 We're doing a bit more on Ancient Greece because there's so much to learn about it. This week I've been learning a little bit about Greek philosophers and especially Pythagoras because he influenced maths and music so much.

I read about Socrates, Plato and Aristotle and to help me remember what they did and how they thought, me and my mum made up a game called Agora (which is the Greek marketplace) which is really cool and fun to play. We also made some clay coins that you have to earn by answering the questions correctly when you land on the philosopher's podium. When you have enough coins you can buy things in the stalls at the agora and the first person to buy everything on their list in the winner. I usually win because I have a better memory than my mum!

 It's always the other person who has to read out the question.

 The coins have the image of an owl on them because they're from Athens and Athena was the goddess of wisdom.

 This is one of the questions.

Then I made a lapbook to put pictures and things I'd learned in it. 

 I also learned Pythagoras' Theorem which is pretty easy, especially with a calculator!