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Ben Sparks
@sparksmaths.bsky.social
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Mathematician, Musician, Speaker, Teacher. Freelance - MEI - Uni of Bath

Working with @Numberphile @MathsInspiratn @TMiPUK and on YouTube @SparksMaths

Get in touch and/or book me for a maths talk or workshop:
www.bensparks.co.uk
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It's almost a new tax year. Here's my visualisation of how income tax works (or did in 2023-24).
Explainer vid: youtu.be/zXJCyffu8Og
Interactive version: www.geogebra.org/m/p97htgc3
March 31, 2025 at 1:25 PM
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Here's the moving version
March 31, 2025 at 1:23 PM
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I am unreasonably proud of combining several obsessions in one animation. An impossible tribar (aka a Penrose Triangle) level 4 fractal (Sierpinski Triangle), in 3D GeoGebra, with dynamic lighting (using the dot product).
January 29, 2025 at 2:34 PM
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New Fractal Build on @geogebra.org - The Dragon Curve:
youtu.be/PaS2xaMOMp8
November 20, 2024 at 11:19 AM
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Made a new adjustable spinner in GeoGebra @geogebra.bsky.social - might be useful.
www.geogebra.org/m/zwwtmgbs
November 5, 2024 at 5:45 PM
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Always satisfying to be able to wrestle Geogebra into submission - here's a Hilbert Curve being traced.
Draft interactive version here: www.geogebra.org/m/a4emmsym
November 4, 2024 at 1:07 PM