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Is 9 Men’s Morris a Tic-tac-toe taken to the next level? Oh, No!

Use it to teach logic and problem-solving in your class.The Mill board game transforms teaching through the use of engaging hands-on Miller Activities that inspire the joy and discovery of learning.

Grades Covered: 3 through 11+.

Subjects Covered: Math, Social Studies.
Curriculum topics: Logic, Strategy, Mathematical Reasoning, Problem Solving, Critical Thinking, British Traditions and Culture.

Learn more with the following example: 

The setting phase is over with 9. ... Foxtrot 2. It seems like it is going to be a tie in spite of Black's closed mill at Bravo 2-4-6. By using this advantage, can Black claim victory in the second phase of the game? Yes, he can. Blocking technique is the key to success here. The AI with depth of 15 PLY can dance a Morris like that... at Delta 1 - Delta 2 - Dealta - 3. Can you  see the PC engine dancing the Black Swan pas de deux?

My hedgehog poetry collection

Hope you enjoy it!

1. Beneath the garden wood pile I hear sounds of excavation
As a hedgehog starts preparing for his autumn hibernation.

2. The Hedgehog went for a walk one day.
Off out all on his own, What can I say.
He crossed the road but he forgot to look left and right.
He didn’t see the car, In his sight.

3. I could tell it was a Hedgehog
simply by it's silhouette,
and if it didn't move real soon
would get squashed flat, I'll bet.

4. Oh lovely, little hedgehog, playing in the grass,
I love your prickly, stylish coat, it brings you so much sass.

5. The little flower pot wept and cried
Thrown on the compost heap on his side
A little hedgehog scurrying by,
Said “little flowerpot do not cry.”

I had an adult and baby one last year. I saw them quite a lot in our garden, though the dog did his best to bark them into a ball. The neighbour had a little food bowl outside his patio door for them. Then one night coming home, I noticed the adult squashed in the road, and not seen one since.

   Also, I had one in my back garden a few weeks ago, and its back again tonight. My back garden is fenced off, and mostly concrete, I have given it some cat food. The dog found it, not me, she didn’t bark this time.

On the name of Shakespeare

(Notes for Year 10) 

Education cannot produce a Shakespeare, it cannot create genius, but it can give genius that chance in early elementary training without which even the most adaptive minds lose their direction.

--Charles G. Harper

     

      The name of Shakespeare was not in olden times a respectable one. It signified originally one who wielded a spear; nor a chivalric and romantic knight warring with the infidel in Palestine, or jousting to uphold the claims to beauty of his chosen lady, but a common soldier, a rough man-at-war.

     (Spoiler 1) The first Shakespeare of whom we have any notice in Stratford-upon-Avon was a John of that name. He was hanged punished for robbery, and perhaps he was one of those very many unfortunate persons who have been in all ages wrongly convicted.   

     (Spoiler 2) One Shakespeare before the dramatist’s time had reached some kind of local eminence. This was Isabel Shakespeare, who became Prioress of the Priory of Baddesley Clinton.
     (Spoiler 3) Warwickshire was, in fact very rich in Shakespeares. They grew in every hedgerow, and very many of them owned the Christian name of William, but they spelled their patronymic in an amazing number of ways as a matter of taste and fancy. We will forbear the most of these. “Shaxpeare” and “Shagspeare” are the commonest forms.
      Sure and certain foothold upon genealogical fact is only reached with William Shakepspeare’s father, who established himself at Stratford-upon-Avon about 1551. John Shakespeare was a rising tradesman and became a member of the town council.