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Can Monkeys Write Shakespeare?
The Infinite Monkey Theorem states that a monkey hitting a keyboard an infinite number of times will, at some point, end up typing the works of Shakespeare. Find out how to calculate the probability of independent events, and how many...
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Nightingale's Diagram
How Florence Nightingale's design of the pie chart saved millions of lives by demonstrating statistics in a simple, visual way. Maths - Statistics And Probability A Twig Math Film. Reinforce and extend the learning required by the...
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Mind Control
When the largest study ever asked whether humans could control machines with their minds, the results were surprising. But aside from study size, were these astounding results significant? Maths - Statistics And Probability A Twig Math...
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Huntington's: The Dilemma
Huntington's is a genetic disease, which usually occurs in middle age. There is a genetic test for Huntington's but, with no cure available, would you choose to be tested if you were at risk? Biology - Cells And DNA - Learning Points. A...
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Benford's Very Strange Law
Mathematicians would expect that each of the numbers 1-9 would appear in the world at random. But physicist Frank Benford discovered that in fact they appear in sequence, with surprising regularity, across the man-made and natural world....
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Variables: Dating By Number
Can algebra help a group of unlucky-in-love men find a date? See how manipulating the values in an algebraic equation can skew the outcome. Maths - Algebra A Twig Math Film. Reinforce and extend the learning required by the curriculum....
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The Birthday Paradox
How many people do you need to have in one room to be sure that two will share the same birthday? The answer is not as high as you might think... Maths - Algebra A Twig Math Film. Reinforce and extend the learning required by the...
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The Odds Are Against You
Find out how bookmakers weight the odds in their favour to ensure they nearly always win. And why gamblers are near certain to lose. Maths - Statistics And Probability A Twig Math Film. Reinforce and extend the learning required by the...
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Climate Models
Predicting the future of Earth's climate is a daunting task. How are complex climate models calculated, taking chaos theory into account? Earth Science - Human Impacts - Learning Points. Climate models use data to calculate the...
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Primed for Survival
Why do Periodica Cicada only emerge en masse during prime-numbered years? Mathematicians believe it gives the species the best chance of protecting its breed. Maths - Number A Twig Curriculum Film. Delivering key learning points. Get...
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Beating the Stock Market
Could mathematicians devise a formula to eliminate risk from the stock market? The story of the mathematical formula which made traders billions – until the unexpected happened. Maths - Statistics And Probability A Twig Math Film....
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Enigma: Cracking The Code
The Enigma machine could pair up letters in 150 million million ways. How did the machine work to give so many different permutations – and how was the code eventually cracked? Maths - Number A Twig Math Film. Reinforce and extend the...
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Logic: Bayesian Robots
Meet the robots who use statistics to learn about the world around them. Maths - Statistics And Probability A Twig Math Film. Reinforce and extend the learning required by the curriculum. Twig’s context films show abstract concepts in...
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A Pattern in the Primes
For centuries, mathematicians have sought to impose order on prime numbers. How far have they managed to do this? Maths - Number A Twig Math Film. Reinforce and extend the learning required by the curriculum. Twig’s context films show...
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Why Do Shares Change Price?
What are shares, and what affects their price? Discover why share price is not only dictated by monetary value, and why this makes trading a risky business. Maths - Statistics And Probability A Twig Math Film. Reinforce and extend the...
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The Card Counter
How a maths professor used the difference between types of events to prove a formula for playing Blackjack existed. Maths - Statistics And Probability A Twig Math Film. Reinforce and extend the learning required by the curriculum. Twig’s...
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Insuring the Titanic
Discover how insurance companies use probability to calculate insurance premiums, and what factors would have been considered when underwriters insured the Titanic. Maths - Statistics And Probability A Twig Math Film. Reinforce and...
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The Prisoner's Dilemma
Should two suspects, held in separate cells, accuse the other of the crime to secure their own freedom? And why a similar situation led to a vital equilibrium in the Cold War nuclear arms race. Maths - Statistics And Probability A Twig...
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Probability: Irrational Fears
Why do people fear flying but not coconuts? Or rollercoasters but not ladders? Find out how to calculate the theoretical or experimental probability of events, and why this shows that often the things we fear the most are the least...
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Tank Wars
How an unlikely algebraic equation outdid allied spying efforts at providing insight into Nazi tank production – and helped to win the war. Maths - Algebra A Twig Math Film. Reinforce and extend the learning required by the curriculum....
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The Monty Hall Problem
This film describes the classic game show problem in which contestants can pick one of three doors and win either a car or a goat. Discover how the odds work to mean you're always better to swap your door if you're given the chance....
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Degrees of Separation: Erdős
Paul Erdős is the most published mathematician ever. To such an extent that now everyone in the world has an assigned 'Erdős number', showing the degrees of separation between their work and his! Maths - History Of Maths A Twig Math...
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Understanding Thresholds in Machine Learning
Join Tracy as she explores the concept of thresholds in machine learning, focusing on their critical role in binary classification tasks. Learn how activation functions and thresholds determine the classification of data points, using a...