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9 Reasons for Using Spreadsheets in Schools – What If Spreadsheet Math

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Teaching the Angle Sum Theorem in Triangles

Missing angles in a triangle leads us to the angle sum theorem which states that there are 180˚ in every triangle.  Really???  In EVERY...

Family Math Night Resources – Math For Love

Teachers, administrators, and students all spend the bulk of their time in schools, and sometimes...

Mathematics — a Beautiful Mystery

     Guided by Facebook, I have found and explored a variety of Math Poems on YouTube.  Here is a sample stanza from a...

S01 overview – Intellectual Mathematics

Galileo is the most overrated figure in the history of science. That is the thesis of Season 1 of my podcast, which consists of...

Societal role of geometry in early civilisations – Intellectual Mathematics

Podcast: DownloadIn ancient Mesopotamia and Egypt, mathematics meant law and order. Specialised mathematical technocrats were deployed to settle conflicts regarding taxes, trade contracts, and...

the oral character of Greek geometry – Intellectual Mathematics

Podcast: DownloadGreek geometry is written in a style adapted to oral teaching. Mathematicians memorised theorems the way bards memorised poems. Several oddities about how...

history and purpose of Pythagorean Theorem – Intellectual Mathematics

Podcast: DownloadThe Pythagorean Theorem might have been used in antiquity to build the pyramids, dig tunnels through mountains, and predict eclipse durations, it has...

the dream of reduction to logic – Intellectual Mathematics

Podcast: DownloadEuclid’s Elements, read backwards, reduces complex truths to simpler ones, such as the Pythagorean Theorem to the parallelogram area theorem, and that in...

What makes a good axiom? – Intellectual Mathematics

Podcast: DownloadHow should axioms be justified? By appeal to intuition, or sensory perception? Or are axioms legitimated merely indirectly, by their logical consequences? Plato...

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