Posts Tagged ‘death’
February 8, 2026
Posted in %, algebra, Arithmetic, death by chocolate, Decimals, Fast Food Maths, graphs, Middle School, units weight | Tagged block, calculate, cats, chocolate, death, dogs, dose, fatal, human, kill, lethal, percentage, theobromine, Valentine's Day, warning | Leave a Comment »
February 8, 2026
Posted in %, algebra, decimals, Fast Food Maths, units weight | Tagged %, blocks, calculation, cats, chocolate, danger, death, dogs, dose, kills, LD50, lethal, Middle school, squares, theobromine | Leave a Comment »
February 8, 2026
Chocolate contains a poison called Theobromine.
LD50 for Theobromine for cats is 200mg.
LD = Lethal Dose. LD50= Lethal Dose for 50% of the population. Cats in this case. This is how poison toxicity is measured.
According to The Royal Society of Chemistry, cats are hypersensitive to Theobromine but, as cats cannot taste sweetness, they are rarely poisoned.
Posted in %, death by chocolate, Fast Food Maths, Year 7 mathspig, Year 9 Mathspig | Tagged 9 lives, adult, calculate, cat, cats, chemical, chocolate, death, dog, how much, humans, kill, theobromine, toxic, won't | Leave a Comment »
November 17, 2022
It’s almost summer in Australia. In Melbourne we’ve had floods, mosquito – mozzie- numbers surge and, last Wednesday, I nearly stood on a Tiger Snake that was escaping the floods near the Yarra River!
This post, however, is really a PR exercise for sharks. We fear them. We’re horrified by the thought of being eaten alive!!!. We only have to hear the soundtrack from JAWS to feel the fear. Then we see news footage like the attack below and think it happens all the time. Look at that fin. It’s enormous! But sharks are not THAT dangerous. We really need to look at the statistics to understand the level of threat. See below.
Why do we fear sharks? Look at the numbers. REALLY. Show your students. What about stairs??? Quad bikes? Chairs? Bees? That’s when you should feel the fear!!! We are irrational beings. This is why we need maths. We can make rational decisions using maths. There is also a safety message here. The maths speaks for itself. We won’t hammer it.
THE MATHS:
There is lots of maths you can do with these tables.
- Bar Graphs
- Pie Charts
- Ratios (What’s the ratio of death by Snake to Quad Bike?)
- Fractions (Show death by jet ski to falling down stairs as a fraction)
- Percentages
- Powers to the base 10. How many deaths occur in each country per 100,000 or 1 x 105 head of population for, say, Quad bikes or ATVs? We can use these numbers to compare death rates and find out how dangerous riding a Quad bike is in each country.
……..Population Data 2022:
……..Aust…26 million = 26 x 106
……..USA…332 million = 332 x 106
……..Canada…38 million = 38 x 106
……..UK…67 million = 67 x 106
But we’re doing this for the SHARKS!!! 
- Cyclists. 2. emergency lanes 3. fell off a chair 4.QUAD BIKES. 5. Horse, donkey. 6. buses 7. Cow, bull. 8. ice skates, skis or skateboards. 9. Venemous snake 10. kangaroo 11. bee 12. emu 13. Jet ski 14. Shark 15. Crocodile
1. Quad Bike or ATV: In 2007, 107 children younger than 16 were killed on ATVs. 2. Cyclists 3. choke on vomit 4. Cats, cows, horses, pigs, raccoons. 5. Bees, wasps 6.PWC or Jet Ski 7. Lightning 8. Xmas tree fires 9. Snowboard 10. Venomous Spider 11. Scorpions 12. Venomous Snakes , lizards. 13.Crocs & gators 14. Shark 
- ATV Quad Bike 2. Canoe 3. Kayak 4. PWC or Jet Ski 5. Unpowered inflatable 6. Avalanches or landslides. 7. Lightning 8. Toboggan 9. Moose –Car collision 10. Bears (All Nth America) 11. Rattle Snake 12. Wolves 13. Shark
- falling down stairs. 2. Cyclists. 3. Choke on vomit 4. Falling off Chairs 5. QUAD BIKE or ATV 6. Buses 7. Struck by cow, horse, other mammal 8. hornets, wasps, bees. 9. PWC or jet ski .10. Parachutists. 11. Skateboards, ice skates, skis 12. Canoe. 13. Shark
Posted in %, Arithmetic, Averages, Fractions, Junior School, Middle School, Ratio, Year 7 mathspig, Year 9 Mathspig | Tagged chair, crocodile, death, jet ski, kangaroo, lightning, mathspig, quad bike, shark, skateboard, snake, snow board, stairs, statistics, vomit | Leave a Comment »
October 13, 2021
Tarantino, being a connoisseur of Fake Blood, used several types of Fake Blood in the film Kill Bill II ranging from good splatter to free-flowing blood. According to one fanzine, in this film, Uma Thurman killed 88 opponents with a sword. So the numbers(above)are in the right ‘blood-soaked’ ballpark.
More survival math (The Hunger Games) here.
Posted in Halloween Math, Middle School, Rates, Units Volume, Year 7 mathspig, Year 9 Mathspig | Tagged bleed, blood, braindead, death, dracula, fake, Halloween, kill bill, litres, loss, Middle school, movie, oz, Tarantino, volumes | Leave a Comment »
June 29, 2021
London yesterday. Spectators give a spontaneous standing ovation to Oxford Professor Sarah Gilbert (below), who was one of the scientists involved in developing the Astra-Zeneca vaccine and one of 100 key worker special guests on opening day. (The Age, 29 JUN, 2021)
Here are the Covid-19 Vaccination stats for the UK as of yesterday:
BBC, 29 JUN 2021
The UK recorded 22, 868 cases yesterday, but only 3 deaths.
The last time the UK recorded close to 23,000 cases was on 16 December 2020. That day, 613 deaths were announced. (The Age, 29 JUN 2021)
In 2019, in the UK, the total death toll was 616,014 or 1688 per day. Tragically but realistically elderly patients with multiple health issues are more likely to contract Covid and die from complications exacerbated by Covid-19 but not necessarily caused by the virus.
The death toll numbers are now encouragingly low in the UK despite the high infection rates from the highly contagious Covid Delta variant.
UPDATE:
On 9 July 2021, the UK recorded 35,707 cases and 29 Deaths. According to Worldometer stats (below), the case numbers and deaths are still rising. Too soon to celebrate even though the UK Freedom Day is only 10 days away.
Posted in %, bar graphs, COVID-19 Math, Real Life Math, Year 7 mathspig, Year 9 Mathspig | Tagged 2021, applause, AstraZeneca, Covid 19, crowd, death, ovation, Oxford Professor, rates, Sarah Gilbert, stats, tennis, UK, vaccine, Wimbledon | Leave a Comment »
February 24, 2021
Posted in %, algebra, Arithmetic, death by chocolate, Decimals, Fast Food Maths, graphs, Middle School, units weight | Tagged %, block, calculate, cats, chocolate, death, dogs, fatal, formula, Graph, kill, Math, percentage, theobromine | 1 Comment »
February 22, 2021
Posted in %, algebra, decimals, Fast Food Maths, units weight | Tagged blocks, calculation, cats, chocolate, danger, death, dogs, dose, kills, LD50, lethal, Math, Middle school, squares, theobromine | Leave a Comment »
February 21, 2021
Chocolate contains a poison called Theobromine.
LD50 for Theobromine for cats is 200mg.
LD = Lethal Dose. LD50= Lethal Dose for 50% of the population. Cats in this case. This is how poison toxicity is measured.
According to The Royal Society of Chemistry, cats are hypersensitive to Theobromine but, as cats cannot taste sweetness, they are rarely poisoned.
Posted in %, death by chocolate, Fast Food Maths, Year 7 mathspig, Year 9 Mathspig | Tagged 9 lives, adult, calculate, cat, cats, chemical, chocolate, death, dog, how much, humans, kill, theobromine, toxic, won't | Leave a Comment »
January 22, 2021
Mathspig has tracked the Covid 19 Stats through the Worldometer tracker and calculated the AVERAGE NO. DEATHS per day at the 50, 60, 70, 80, 100 , 200 DAY mark …
and now at the 1 YEAR mark.
New York Times article here.
BBC article here.
Posted in %, Arithmetic, Averages, COVID-19 Math | Tagged %, 1 Year, average, cases, Corona, Covid 19, Day, death, deaths, extra, per day, rate, stats, total, World | 1 Comment »
* Vetmedicine: Cooking chocolate contains 8-10 times the Theobromine in Milk Chocolate.
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