By Katie Steckles. Posted October 7, 2024 in News Roundup
Here’s a round-up of mathematical news stories from last month.
Maths Research News
A claimed proof has...
Show that the boundary-value problem
can be converted to a problem with zero boundary conditions:
Define a new function in terms of as follows:
where...
In my last blog post, I focused on students’ beliefs about themselves and mathematics, commonly known as a “productive disposition”. To help us as teachers...
Podcast: DownloadHow should axioms be justified? By appeal to intuition, or sensory perception? Or are axioms legitimated merely indirectly, by their logical consequences? Plato...
Angela Tabiri, a young mathematician from Ghana, in July captured global attention by winning the title, World’s Most Interesting Mathematician. Here is her...
At some point, maybe thirty years ago, it became fashionable to emphasize functions and their multiple representations in secondary school math. This was in...
By Katie Steckles and Peter Rowlett. Posted September 27, 2024 in Mathematical Objects
A conversation about mathematics inspired by a space-filling curve. Presented by Katie...
3rd graders continue to develop their understanding of measurement by learning about liquid volume.
Liquid volume is the amount of liquid contained in a...
This essay chronicles the liberation of plus and times from narrow notions about what sorts of things can be added and multiplied — and, relatedly, what sorts of things...
Galileo is the most overrated figure in the history of science. That is the thesis of Season 1 of my podcast, which consists of the following 18 episodes.
Galileo...
Daniel May -- professor at Black Hills State University in South Dakota -- enjoys not only teaching mathematics to future teachers but also exploration of the...