Teaching specific tactics for problem solving
This is my final blogpost, as my year as President of the Mathematical Association draws to a close, so I've allowed myself to go on at ...
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Teachers of mathematics seem not to be particularly fond of crocodiles/alligators when they are used to give meaning to the inequality signs... -
Can a factor be a fraction? People sometimes agonise over whether a fraction such as $\frac{2}{3}$ can be called ‘a factor’ of another numbe...
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Zero is a strange number - learners sometimes even doubt if it is a number... In my articles in Mathematics in School , I often address ...