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So much of the mathematics content we teach appears to many students to be fairly dry on the surface - we hope we bring them on the journey...

"Even a monkey can differentiate" - that's how I described the rules based approach that seems to dominate so many students...

It's been nearly a year now since I changed my classroom configuration from rows to groups : Overall I'm very pleased with t...

Do you remember high school trigonometry? Was it a blurred sequence of formulae with a recipe book of incantations for solving standard exa...

Thanks to this post on A Rambling Soul  I now have easy-to-use built in LaTex in this blog! So now I can write $ax^2 + bx + c = 0$ and $\f...

A curious composite image from the TRACE solar observation satellite , watching the planet Mercury move across the sun in 2003. Parall...

It's been a long time between posts .. but rest assured I'm still alive - just swamped by teaching right now. Hope to write some mor...