Maths Abuse…
Periodically the God of Maths-Whizz receives Google email alerts about the world of maths. These tell him who is blogging, posting comments, writing news and press releases with ‘maths’ mentioned somewhere. It has come to the attention of the God of Whizz that ‘maths’ or ‘math’ is a word too often used in anger than [...]
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Widely covered on this snowy (at least for London and SE England Whizzers) Monday, is the story of Carol Vorderman’s appointment to a Conservative party panel to tackle UK maths education (and address the parlous state many claim it to be in). Carol will take an unpaid role at the head of the Tory taskforce, [...]
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Nate Silver is 30 and has no experience as a political pundit or expert. Yet he predicted the historic outcome of the 2008 US elections back in March, 2008, long before the Democratic Party candidate – Barack Obama – had even been selected. The New York Times today reports on Silver’s success.  What was his secret? Maths. Mr. [...]
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