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And Thinking about How To Categorize the Shapes How To Look at the Symmetries of Them Look at the You Know the Ways That You Can Simplify Stuff To Try and Get some Kind of Classification and in Particular We Were Looking at a Thing Called Choreographies Which as You Can Probably Guess from the Name Involve Things That Are Sort Of Dancing in a Very Nice Pattern Yeah Um so It's if You Imagine You Know a Set of Particles Orbiting but They'Re all Following the Same Path One after the Other and if You Take the Whole System
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And We Kind Of Developed a Set of Talks That He Already Did and and Kind Of Built Versions That I Could Do Um that I Could Then Take into Schools and We Had a Couple of Other People That Did Them As Well at the Time so We Kind Of Started a Little Company Uh Which Became Think Maths Yeah and that Kind Of Went from There and that Was a Major Part of the Work That I Was Doing Was Doing Schools Talks for Think Maths for a Good Number of Years Yeah Yeah You Had Your Break What What Sort of What Have You Evolved into since It's Hard To Say
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And It's Partly To Do with the Fact that the Way We Teach Maths Is Very Much There Is a Correct Answer You'Ve Got To Do this You'Ve Got To Get the Right Answer and if You'Re Not Getting this Right Answer It's because You'Re Bad and You Don't Know What You'Re Doing and I Know no One Would Ever Deliberately Say that to Someone but that Is Kind of the Impression That Comes Across from the Way Maths Is Sometimes Taught and You'Ve Kind Of Got To Get across to People That Actually Finding It Difficult Is Normal and the Way That You'Ll Succeed with It Is if You Find It Difficult Feel the Fear
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