Maths teaching – Numbers and Shapes

Continuing my re-discovery of Logo, I thought I’d try to implement a backtracking solution to finding a Hamiltonian cycle in…

We know that we can use the limit definition to compute the derivative of “from first principles”. And…

First, consider written language. If you are going to publish an academic paper for an international readership, what language will…

The Newton-Raphson method for solving algebraic equations : has always presented my students with difficulties. To solve, for…

I’ve been looking up at the sky at night recently, and thinking about the sizes of things. Now it’s all…

I've been thinking about integration rules, as I've got up to that part of an elementary calculus course for engineering…

Astute readers will notice that it’s been a very long time (five months!) since my last post. This is because…

In my last post (nearly three months ago) I commented on online assessment, and in particular on Pearson’s MyMathLab Global,…

This semester I've taken over a large first year subject, for which the previous subject convenor had organized to use…

I intended to post a lot about these calculators over the past few months, but, err… didn’t. Anyway, I’ve been…