Today I will give the list of the top sixteen scientists and mathematicians that we are studying in class. I try to pick a variety of different scientists that I think are relevant to the content. A new scientist is introduced every Monday. We still have sixteen to go for the rest of the year so your favorite may be missing.
Here is my list in the order presented to class this year:
- Albert Einstein
- Marie Curie
- Bernhard Riemann
- Emmy Noether
- Thomas Edison
- Rosalind Franklin
- Carl Friedrich Gauss
- Gregor Mendel
- Galileo Galilei
- Rachael Carson
- G.H. Hardy
- Srinivasa Ramanujan
- Leonhard Euler
- Archimedes
- Robert Hooke
- Sylvia Earl
On the worksheet given to the student, I usually give the name of the scientist, month and day born, year born and one or two short accomplishments. We then put the year born into the Peg system and link the date to the Peg word.
No Darwin? Any GOOD reason?
or just haven’t gotten there yet?
You started following me so I htought I’d take a look.
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linzel,
Thanks for the comment.
Oh, I do Darwin. He’s near the end of the second list. I save the best for last. I have another 16 scientists/mathematicians that we learn.
Darwin was born in 1809 and this gives the peg word of tuf sub.
I hope to teach a class this summer on Wiziq on how to remember numbers and dates. I’ll post on my site here when the date is set. Maybe you’ll be interested?
Kevin
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Its heartening to see Ramanujan in the list, as I am an Indian. Thats great but as was said by linzel, some big names might be missing here!
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Hello Manjil Saikia. I made my list bigger for next year because there are so many good scientists and mathematicians to choose from. Also, I favor the scientists that my students may read about in our curriculum.
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