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Soldiers and horses | Mathematics under the Microscope
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Mathematics under the Microscope. Atomic objects, structures and concepts of mathematics. Selected Passages from Correspondence with Friends. Posted by: Alexandre Borovik. February 8, 2015. From a discussion at a LinkedIn group on mathematics education:. Q: You’re the general of an army. You have many soldiers and many horses. Each soldier needs one horse. What’s the fastest, most efficient way to see if the # of soldiers = the # of horses? Laquo; The Metaphysician’s Nightmare. On April 2, 2015. Fill in ...
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Calling a spade a spade: Mathematics in the new pattern of division of labour | Mathematics under the Microscope
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Mathematics under the Microscope. Atomic objects, structures and concepts of mathematics. Selected Passages from Correspondence with Friends. Posted by: Alexandre Borovik. December 15, 2014. Calling a spade a spade: Mathematics in the new pattern of division of labour. This is the last pre-publication version. Alexandre V. Borovik, Calling a spade a spade: Mathematics in the new pattern of division of labour, arXiv:1407.1954v3. The growing disconnection of the majority of population from mathematics is.
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My Teaching Manifesto | Mathematics under the Microscope
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Mathematics under the Microscope. Atomic objects, structures and concepts of mathematics. Selected Passages from Correspondence with Friends. Teaching is not a science, it is an art, and should be treated as such. Students are not customers (“persons who buy”) – they are clients (“persons who seek the advice of a professional man or woman”). This cannot be achieved without teachers being experts in their disciplines. The role of managers is to create an environment which helps professional standards to b...
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Fibonacci | Mathematics under the Microscope
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Mathematics under the Microscope. Atomic objects, structures and concepts of mathematics. Selected Passages from Correspondence with Friends. Posted by: Alexandre Borovik. August 14, 2014. It appears that Fibonacci was the first person in Europe to represent a real number in a place value system: he wrote a root of the equation. Laquo; This is what I call numeracy. Educational value of deliberate mistakes. On August 14, 2014. Yes, base 60, of course. On August 14, 2014. On August 14, 2014. Kolmogorov...
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Mathematics under the Microscope | Atomic objects, structures and concepts of mathematics | Page 2
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Mathematics under the Microscope. Atomic objects, structures and concepts of mathematics. Selected Passages from Correspondence with Friends. Posted by: Alexandre Borovik. May 16, 2014. NYT: “Who gets to graduate? Posted by: Alexandre Borovik. February 2, 2014. A curious blog about mathematics for preschoolers: Tricky PreK Math. Posted by: Alexandre Borovik. February 1, 2014. V A Uspensky: Mathematics belongs to Humanities. ВА Успенский: Математика это гуманитарная наука. Posted by: Alexandre Borovik.
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Kolmogorov’s “5/3” Law | Mathematics under the Microscope
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Mathematics under the Microscope. Atomic objects, structures and concepts of mathematics. Selected Passages from Correspondence with Friends. Posted by: Alexandre Borovik. April 4, 2008. Kolmogorov’s “5/3” Law. This is a follow-up to my earlier post on named numbers. The text is mostly cannibalised from my book. I refer the reader to the book (available for free download) for bibliography, etc. 8221; law for the energy distribution in the turbulent fluid [A. N. Kolmogorov,. The Great Wave off Kanagawa.
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Selected Passages from Correspondence with Friends | Mathematics under the Microscope
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Mathematics under the Microscope. Atomic objects, structures and concepts of mathematics. Selected Passages from Correspondence with Friends. Selected Passages from Correspondence with Friends. Selected Passages from Correspondence with Friends. Is exactly what it says on the tin: a collection of anonymised and slightly edited and expanded excerpts from emails to mathematician colleagues, mostly about mathematics education. A monotonous bounded sequence as a metaphor for mathematics education. Mathematic...
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Help! Are there any GOOD A-level mathematics textbooks? | Mathematics under the Microscope
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Mathematics under the Microscope. Atomic objects, structures and concepts of mathematics. Selected Passages from Correspondence with Friends. Posted by: Alexandre Borovik. May 18, 2011. Are there any GOOD A-level mathematics textbooks? Indeed, can anyone recommend GOOD. I mean REALLY GOOD. The ones that can act as model of a good textbook? Laquo; The secrets of long multiplication. Consistency of Peano Arithmetic. This is what real text books start to look like, no fancy gimmicks or jokes like [4], but o...
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Educational value of deliberate mistakes | Mathematics under the Microscope
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Mathematics under the Microscope. Atomic objects, structures and concepts of mathematics. Selected Passages from Correspondence with Friends. Posted by: Alexandre Borovik. August 18, 2014. Educational value of deliberate mistakes. This recent story, Confuse Students to Help Them Learn. Moved me to re-publish a post from my previous blog. The Economist (22 Sept 2007), of all journals, published a long obituary of a parrot, Alex the African Grey. Who became an ex-parrot. On 6 September 2007, aged 31. And t...
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Calling a spade a spade: Mathematics in the new pattern of division of labour | Mathematics under the Microscope
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Mathematics under the Microscope. Atomic objects, structures and concepts of mathematics. Selected Passages from Correspondence with Friends. Posted by: Alexandre Borovik. July 14, 2014. Calling a spade a spade: Mathematics in the new pattern of division of labour. Calling a spade a spade: Mathematics in the new pattern of division of labour. This paper is an attempt to describe the socio-economic landscape of mathematics education without resorting to euphemisms. Leave a Reply Cancel reply. You are comm...