Random Horizon Podcasts

The Horizon Prep Lioncast is a production of the Horizon Prep Parent Teacher Fellowship, to INCLUDE, INFORM, and INSPIRE the Horizon Prep parents and teachers. Each week we talk about what’s going on at the HP campus and then talk with one of the teachers or staff and learn about them and their role at the school.

Categories: Education

Tags: classicaleducation, Horizon, horizonprep, privateschool, ranchosantafe, sandiego

Since the dawn of civilisation, humans have used everyday materials to create mathematical models of the world around them. This album explores the ancient Greeks’ astrolabe as a model of the skies; the sundial, to tell the time; Babylonian clay tablets to record wages and trading of sheep; wooden tallies for bulk-buying beer, the Incas’ use of knots and string, and the sophisticated number-engine invented by Charles Babbage. This material forms part of The Open University course MST121 Using mathematics.

Categories: Education

Tags: astronomy, Greeks, Horizon, Imagination, mathematician, mathematics, modelling, navigation, numbers, stereoscopic stars, zenith