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Help -- I'm stuck in my ivory tower!
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gowers wrote 5 months ago: The UK Qualifications and Curriculum Authority is considering introducing a new A’level course … more →
I was once in a math war skirmish… Aftermath... We win... and lose
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jd2718 wrote 5 months ago: In the late 1990s the Math Wars, ignited in California, were spreading across the country. I was a w … more →
Why aren't all functions well-defined?
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gowers wrote 6 months ago: I’m in the happy state of just having finished marking exams for this year. There is very litt … more →
A solution to an exposition problem
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gowers wrote 7 months ago: Let me explain the title of this post by quoting from Timothy Chow’s highly recommended exposi … more →
Tricki now fully live
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gowers wrote 8 months ago: Update (25/4/09). Since the launch, the number of pages on the Tricki has doubled (from 104 to 208), … more →
Tricki available for viewing
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gowers wrote 8 months ago: It’s been a long time coming, but the Tricki is now on the point of going fully live. If you n … more →
I was once in a math war skirmish... Part 3: teaching Math Connections
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jd2718 wrote 11 months ago: In the late 1990s the Math Wars, ignited in California, were spreading across the country. I was a w … more →
Just-do-it proofs
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gowers wrote 1 year ago: This post is another sample Tricks Wiki article, which revisits a theme that I treated on my web pag … more →
How to use Zorn's lemma
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gowers wrote 1 year ago: I am continuing my series of sample articles for the Tricks Wiki with one that is intended to repres … more →
Dimension arguments in combinatorics
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gowers wrote 1 year ago: Here is another article that I hope to develop into an entry on the Tricks Wiki. It concerns the use … more →
Recognising countable sets
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gowers wrote 1 year ago: As may be obvious from the sudden increase in my posting rate (which I don’t expect to be able … more →
Should they know what's on the test?
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jd2718 wrote 1 year ago: Sounds silly, right? Of course they should. But I mean, should they know the questions in advance? B … more →
Math Ed, must read: Math Panel, Lockhart, Schmidt
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jd2718 wrote 1 year ago: 1. The National Mathematics Advisory Panel issued its final report last week. Dave Marain (Math Nota … more →
Examples first II
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gowers wrote 2 years ago: It’s what blogging is all about I suppose, but I have been surprised in several different ways … more →
My favourite pedagogical principle: examples first!
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gowers wrote 2 years ago: This post is about a very simple idea that can dramatically improve the readability of just about an … more →
How should vector spaces be introduced?
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gowers wrote 2 years ago: This question arose in the discussion of my previous post, but deserves a place to itself because (i … more →
How should logarithms be taught?
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gowers wrote 2 years ago: Having a blog gives me a chance to defend myself against a number of people who took issue with a pa … more →
Delayed Gratification
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jd2718 wrote 3 years ago: I was supposed to teach my algebra class “the distance formula” (Note to any and all: ho … more →
