A fusion of art, mathematics and computing from digital artist Martin Hansen.
 

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July 2010

"Mathematics In School" published my article
"Magic Squares from a teaching point of view - Part 1"
in the March 2010 edition.
This magazine is available from The Mathematical Association.
Parts 2 & 3 to follow, Autumn 2010

 
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.
I presented it at a staff INSET last year at Shrewsbury School.

 
Suitable for showing to GCSE secondary school pupils.

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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.

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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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