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Variety of Approaches Helps Maths Learning

June 2nd, 2009

Recent research from Holland lends weight to the (some might suggest) obvious finding that varied media and methods boost learning, especially in maths.

Even if you feel this another example of educational researchers preaching to the choir, it is worth having a look at the ScienceDaily report and the research site itself.

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Capture the Spam

November 24th, 2008

Bit of blog news, here.

We’ve had a torrent of spiced-ham-based electronic communications (otherwise known as ‘spam‘) on the blog of late.

Deleting them all is giving the Whizzers repetitive strain injury, so we’ve installed a clever little device called ‘reCAPTCHA‘ to ensure all our comments come from bona-fide humans.

If you want to comment on the blog on any subject from maths to Monty Python - and we thoroughly encourage you to do so - type the two words shown in the reCAPTCHA image and submit your comment as normal.

By typing the reCAPTCHA words you’ll even help to digitize the printed pages from which those words are taken. You can find out more on the reCAPTCHA page, above.

Mayan Maths

September 23rd, 2008

For those of us in the northern Hemisphere the Autumn Equinox is just behind us, and our hugely successful Summer Adventure is coming to an end.

Chichen Itza - Mayan ruins

“Boo”, I hear you say. But what better opportunity to look back at the methods that made the central American Mayans (in whose wild forests the Professor’s Summer Adventure is set) such pioneers of maths?

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Abstraction and Subtraction

April 28th, 2008

Abstract concepts are better for teaching maths than real-world ones, according to a study reported on in a recent New York Times article. What does this mean for teaching maths and what does it mean for Maths-Whizz?

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