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File: SetPoint This article appeared in a Scottish newspaper - name to be confirmed. It is reproduced here without permission and will disappear if I'm challenged on the matter. I've taken the liberty of correcting a few small errors. ---- images/SetPoint.jpg _ Colin is watched by Caileag Walker, of Aberdeen Grammar School, _ and Andrew Freeland, of Harlow Academy. /Picture/by/Kami/Thomson/ *by*Angela*Taylor* ********> The ability to juggle figures is a requirement for mathematicians - but most of them don't actually throw them in the air. Colin Wright, however, is a different matter. And yesterday he demonstrated to north-east schoolchildren how juggling and maths tumble together. His lecture, *Juggling:*Theory*and*Practice,* might have given the impression of a display of juggling skills, but it actually covered many levels of maths and science, how they work, what they mean and why they are important Dr Wright is one of the creators of Siteswap, a form of notation which allows juggling patterns to be written out in a similar way to music, allowing jugglers around the world to share each other's techniques, and jugglers of the future to copy classic patterns. By juggling three balls and explaining the Siteswap notation he explains not just mathematical formulae but also time travel and the speed of light. ******** He said: "So much of the mathematics done in class is related to essential skills like arithmetic and skills that are essential in their other subjects ... and they really don't get to see the other side of it. "Mathematics is everywhere if you know where to look for it - how traffic flows, people move about, buildings stand up. "If I can save one child from a life in accountancy and turn them to do maths or science instead, then I've won." The event, organised by science and maths charity Setpoint Scotland North as the Christmas lecture for the Institute of Mathematics and its Applications, was attended by about 175 pupils and teachers. Dr Wright will be performing at Robert Gordon University again today for some of the north-east's top young mathematicians, to mark the halfway stage of their RoyalInstitution MathematicsMasterclass series, also organised by Setpoint Scotland North. ********< ---- See JugglingTalkFeedback for, unsurprisingly, more feedback ...