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News : November 2011
Sly Mathematics with Raspberry Pi
I wrote an article, "Sly Mathematics", over half term.
It's been accepted for publication by the Maths Association.
It will appear next year in "Mathematics In Schools"
along with links to the MathMagical & RISCOScode websites.
I'm hoping that the £16 Raspberry Pi computer
will have gone national by then in which case
some free RISC OS educational treats are planned.
The Mathematics Repository
What is Geometry ?
"What is Geometry ?" is this website's most popular article.
It was originally published by "Mathematics In School" in 1993.
Here, I've reproduced the full article with improved illustrations.
This is a University undergraduate level item, written in an accessable fashion.
Click on the trees to read the article.
How to solve quadratics
More correctly, "How to prove the formula for solving quadratic equations".
This short item was first published in M500, the OU maths magazine in 2008.
Used at staff INSET at Shrewsbury School.
Suitable for showing to GCSE secondary school pupils.
Click on the banner to read the article.
Boxing Clever
"Boxing Clever", by Martin Hansen, shows how tired old clichés lead to
new insights when theory is confronted with grim reality.
The cliché is calculus, but the textbooks & Sainsbury's disagree on the answer.
Sainsbury's is right.
You will never see a humble cardboard box in quite the same light again.
This is a thoughtful Sixth Form level item on Calculus, first published in 1992.
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The Theorem Of Pyfudgerous
One of mathematics' best known theorems is that which is attributed to Pythagoras.
Pythagoras, however, had a rival, named Pyfudgerous.
He too had a theorem for working out the hypotenuse of
a right-angled triangle from the length of the other two sides
This is a visual Sixth Form level item on Geometric Progressions, first published in 1993.
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Magic Squares
All three parts of Martin's series on
"Magic Squares from a teaching point of view"
were published in "Mathematics In School" during 2010.
Once a few years have passed, they will be added to this website.
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