Newsworthy Math
A Discussion about Mathematics in Society
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"Show Your Working"
One of the many things that makes math difficult to learn is the seemingly universal reluctance to be comfortable with incomplete thoughts. In math terms this translates to “write down you’re intermediate results”. Kids hate to do this. If you ask them to do a multi-step problem it is an enormous struggle to get them [...]
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Who Needs Algebra?
One of the biggest questions about mathematical education has to be: Why bother? Anyone teaching math gets lots of practice answering that. It’s a good question. There are two types of justification, the aesthetic and the practical. The aesthetic case is actually the easy one. Math is one of the least obvious, most complex, profound [...]
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