One more reward !

On the 26th of April the Pomegranate Team was awarded by the Minister of Education for the distinction of ATOM. Half of us, without Eleni and our kids, that  were having the time of their lives in Antalya, tried to explain what ATOM meant to us : Here it is !

One more quality label for AToM

Today, the Greek team was awarded with the etwinning quality label, as well as the brand new Pupil Quality Label, also awarded to all partners for their team's work.
We'd like to thank all our colleagues for this collaboration and wish the project all the best!

Pupils´ evaluation

Students' Evaluation

Good-bye Flashmeeting images

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"A mathematician's diet" Elefsina's farewell song

Pythagoras, the 6^th century B.C. Greek mathematician, scholar and so much more, was a vegetarian and thought that beans were kin to men, so they shouldn’t be eaten. More theories on bean abstinence here

Look out for our film on Pythagora's banquet in Food for thought!

Eratosthenes, the 3^rd century B.C. Greek mathematician was able to culculate the earth’s circumference with great proximity. Of course he thought it was a sphere, but mankind forgot that for many centuries later. He starved himself to death, when he realized he was going blind.

More Math and diet trivia:

The Tyrian mathematician Porphyry  Malchus, Eratosthenes’ contemporary, was a vegetarian, since he was influenced by Pythagorian theories about animals having a soul.

Kurt Gödel, Eistein’s friend, and one of the most important people of the 20th century, who proved that one cannot attain absolute mathematical truth (incompleteness theorem), starved himself for fear of getting poisoned.

Please remember: Millions of mathematicians were normal eaters!!

 

The first QL

The first ATOM QL. Congratulations, Amsterdam! Good luck to the other teams!

ATOM in images

This video is a kind of report in images.

Geometry in town. Elefsina

This is the result of a couple of walks around our school. There is more to come, but we are in exam period and must concentrate on that for the time being. This is a really fun task!
Some photes are from the wonderful ebook about our town's museum and archeological site. Browse through it here!

Atom in Greek Student Festival 2011

It took us several hours of work to prepare an old table with wheels and paint it, so it would become the AToM exhibition table in the library. But when we were invited to show the project in the annual student festival in Elefsina, it proved really handy, with all the food and info about Maths and Cooking. Among other things, we made the Avila cookies again (thank you very much, Avila, and many thanks, once more, AToM mom for making them), the fractal salad, we offered a little port with walnuts, the prize for mathematical excellence in Trinity College, England, and added Eratosthenes' sieve, a nice way to find the prime numbers. Click here and see how many "holes" the sieve will have! Of course there were a lot of other things to include, from all countries, but...the table wasn't big enough, so visitors were prompted to visit the AToM blog.

A Piece of Pie in Karviná

A piece of pie in Amsterdam

Here our answer to the collective task:

Happy Easter from Greece!

We wish you a most pleasant Easter with lots of new tastes! Look out for our parcels. The Pomegranate team.

Women's (mathematicians') Day!

'I am in my own right a whole person, responsible to myself alone for all that I am, all that I say, all that I do. When I add the sum total of my graces, I confess I am inferior to no one."

Declared in the 18th century by  Marquise Emile du Chatelet, one of the few mathematicians prior to women's liberation. With her you can see Lord Byron's daughter, Ada Lovelace, the Russian Sophia Kavolevsky, and the ancient Greek Hypatia of Alexandria.

Happy Women's Day to our AToM females!

Learning about ancient Mathematical thought

The secret geometry

KRYFH GEOMETRIA

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The secret geometry in the School of Athens, St Peter’s Basilica in Rome, 1560

By G. Matzaridis. Translated by the Pomegranate team seeds Vretti Kotorou and Natalie Mantikou.

By encircling Plato’s and Aristotle’s heads, I include their thoughts and theories in a circle.

By connecting the two philosophers’ eyes, the circle’s diameter is created. Right after that, I draw the middle vertical line of the diameter. The intersection of the diameter and the vertical line is the center of the circle. I draw two lines starting from the center of the circle, each ending on  Pythagoras’ and Euclid’s’ heads. I connect the ending points of those two lines with another line, and what do you know: an isosceles triangle!

 I draw the bisectors of the base-angles of the triangle, the extension of which points directly to Thucydides and Aeschenes. Then, I extend the lines of the triangle’s sides towards Apollo and Athena, I connect the ending points and another isosceles triangle is created!

 I draw the bisectors of the two angles of the new triangle, and they once again point to Thucydides and Aiskenes. Then, from the center of the circle, I draw the verticals of the two isosceles triangles. The extension of the line shows the perspective of the painting. The triangles’ vertical creates 4 rectangular triangles. From the latter, I draw the verticals of each right angle. The straight line which unites the two intersections of the four verticals passes from the center of the painting and intersects all of the philosopher’s heads.

Conclusion: The major impact of the ancient Greek way of thinking on Renaissance artists. The interrelationship of the ancient world’s sciences.

The greatness of Art as the highest form of expression.  

Conclusion II : “Let no one ignorant of geometry enter” in Plato’s academy. It seems that the ones who did enter, did it through Raphael’s brush. None the less, we, the fresco’s admirers,  “entered” the painting only when we discovered the geometrical patterns that are revealed in the painting. Only then did we come to appreciate the deep symbolism it conveys.  

The Fibonacci poem from Greece

Fighting

Famine

Bread, Beans

Poor man’s food

Savored once in ancient Greece

Wheat was gifted by the gods to us

Soup made of holy beans, raised the world’ s brightest brains whose methodology remains

Beans, Bread, as divine med, sent from heaven to heal and spread.

Wondrous works were read and made within philosophy’s array.

Μια

Φασολάδα

Και ψωμί

Ισοδυναμεί με ευχή

Στων τότε Ελλήνων το τραπέζι

Ευλογία των θεών, είν’ το «κρέας των φτωχών»

Σίτος, δώρο της θεάς, άρτος έγινε για μας, παντού δίνοντας ζωή, ανάλαφρη αναπνοή

Μαθηματικά μυαλά ξύπνησαν με όλ’ αυτά, και φιλόσοφοι μεγάλοι άρχισαν ανεμοζάλη στων επιστημών τον κόσμο όλα άλλαξαν διαμιάς κι έμειναν αθάνατα.

Class Logo from Avila

Although we are still on holiday, I contacted the Art teacher. He could only send me the class logo. Let me explain you how they work. first they have a brainstorming to get ideas. then, they choose and work on it, making it part of the Art syllabus. The, they have individual samples. this is the one they agreed on. Students are still working on their individual ones.

This is everything we can present now.

Have a nice evening.

Valentina

Elefsina

Here is Elefsina, its archeological site, as photographed yesterday by the Pomegranate team. The puzzle is 2.300 years old and it belongs to Archimedes, the ancient mathematician, one of the three greatest ever. You can print and cut and assemble it. This is a simple way to solve the puzzle that has buffled people so much, it gave them a stomachache. That is probably why it is called "stomachion". Another explanation is that you mingle the parts, just as the stomach mingles food. Do you know the other two top mathematicians?