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=Welcome to the 'Of All The People In All The World' wikispace=

This wiki space is inspired by the show with the same name from 'Stan's cafe' Theatre company [] as seen at the [|ATM] conference in Swansea April 2009. The aim of the site is to provide a collaborative workspace for mathematics educators to share their responses, ideas and experiences with reference to their own mathematics classrooms.

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If you would like to participate in and edit pages here then please follow the 'join this wikispace' link at the top of the menu on the left. The wikispace is currently administrated by Jim Noble - Head of Maths - International School of Toulouse - contact here with questions or difficulties.

The following is taken from Stan's Cafe's website:
**Of All The People In All The World (UK)** uses grains of rice to bring formally abstract statistics to startling and powerful life.

Each grain of rice = one person and you are invited to compare the one grain that is you to the millions that are not. Over a period of days a team of performers carefully weigh out quantities of rice to represent a host of human statistics

- the populations of towns and cities - the number of doctors, the number of soldiers - the number of people born each day, the number who die - all the people who have walked on the moon - deaths in the holocaust.

The statistics are arranged in labelled piles creating an ever changing landscape of rice. The statistics and their juxtapositions can be moving, shocking, celebratory, witty and thought provoking.

The show adapts to its setting: the country, city and building it is in. The amount of rice used varies according to which version is performed, **Of All The People In All The World: UK** is a standard small version using 1,000Kg of rice to represent 60,000,000 people. **Of All The People In All The World: Europe** at 12,000Kg is an example of a medium size version. So far there has been a single presentation of **Of All The People In All The World** in which the whole world's population was represented by 104 tons of rice in Stuttgart.

The following are links to some existing web references to the show

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From here navigate to the following pages

Responses to the show - This page is a centre for people to put down their thoughts on the show, its power and its potential, good points and bad points. For longer responses it is possible to upload documents to this page

Statistics - on this page, the aim is to collect ideas about different 'Numbers of People' to be represented. These might be recalled from the exhibition or new. Either way, the page becomes a resource for anyone wanting to recreate the show in their schools. *** Note, if entries for this page became numerous, this would be better kept in a spreadsheet/database. This could be done collaboratively using google docs or similar.

Ideas - This page is for people to note down any ideas they have for how the show could be recreated or for other related spin off ideas like those suggested by Stan's Cafe at the show 'It doesn't have to rice and it doesn't have to be people' - Pleae note that discussion tab would be the best place to discuss ideas that people have submitted.

Experiences - This page is the place for people to write about their experiences of activities inspired by the show. For longer responses it is possible to upload documents onto this page