This year’s Blog Action Day is devoted to the theme of Climate Change and an understanding of mathematics is certainly essential for anyone involved in making making decisions about how to respond to this issue (which in a democracy is presumably all of us).
The choice of Math and Climate as the theme of this year’s [...]
Since my institution has started using WPMu for faculty and departmental websites I had better have a look at this from bavatuesdays (which came to me via Stephen Downes).
xkcd - A Webcomic - Locke and Demosthenes.
Inventing cute mnemonics is fun, and the process of inventing and checking them may help reinforce the definitions, but beyond that they really are useless - and I believe they do more harm than good when people actually try to use them.
It takes much more time (and mental effort) to correctly recall and decode one [...]
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