Coming up...
Watch this space for info about our next events and displays.
If you have an idea for something mathsy you'd love to see or collab with us for, let us know!
You can read what sorts of things we've got up to previously below.
Past events
Show Your Working (November 2023)
Numbers can tell us where we are, they tell us when, they tell us how much - they let us dig into questions like: how can we use GPS to do earthworks? How do software engineers deal with different timezones? And what's the deal behind property valuation?
On Thursday 30 November, Tūranga hosted the ‘Show Your Working’ speaker event about interesting maths in the workplace addressing these very questions. This was facilitated by local professionals from a range of careers.
Matt Duffy, Senior Product Manager at Trimble Inc, talked about the use of satellites and GNSS to program construction equipment such as bulldozers to make sure they are being used efficiently.
Mark Dow, Director of Dow and Associates and teaching fellow at Lincoln University, discussed how property valuation is both an art and a science. Mark showed attendees how maths is utilised to find patterns in recent sales, which can then be used to predict a property’s value.
Josie Smith, Software Developer at Phocas Software, spoke about maths in software engineering, focusing on time zone calculations and how it’s practically impossible to make them always accurate.
Plenty of questions were asked in the Q+A session. The audience were invited to stay for refreshments and to further discuss the talks, check out the mathematical book display and the 3D printed mathematical models. We received lots of positive feedback and are keen to run a similar evening of career-based maths talks in the future.
