Mathematical headaches? Problem solved!
Hi, I'm Colin, and I'm here to help you make sense of maths
Mathematical headaches? Problem solved!
Hi, I'm Colin, and I'm here to help you make sense of maths
June already? That sounds like it's almost summer. However, bad luck, you still have a few weeks of exams to go. How are they coming along? Well, what can I help you with this week? Just drop me a comment below and I'll do what I can to answer it.
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"The race that does not value trained intelligence is doomed." - A.N. Whitehead
Read More →One of my students scoffed at me the other day for saying I liked football. In particular, I like bad football - the last game I went to see was Maidenhead United against Truro City in the second qualifying round of the FA Cup, and even that was a bit
Read More →Radians - as I've ranted before - are the most natural way to express angles and do trigonometry. No ifs, no buts, degrees are an inherently inferior measure and the sooner they're abolished, the better. (In other news, the campaign to replace the mishmash of units called 'time' by UNIX
Read More →Welcome to exam season. What's on your mind? Well, what can I help you with this week? Just drop me a comment below and I'll do what I can to answer it.
Read More →"That's the nice thing about maths," said someone who shall remain nameless. "There's always one right answer!" I coughed. I may have said 'bullshit' under my breath, a little bit. It's my second-least-favourite thing to hear anyone say1 . The idea of maths problems always having one right answer is
Read More →My favourite trick, when I was helping students at the Physics Homework Centre at Montana State University, was to eyeball a question for a moment and say "... which is, what, 53.13 degrees or so..." without batting an eyelid. The poor students! There they were trying to figure out which
Read More →Must be getting close to C1 and C2 now, huh? Well, what can I help you with this week? Just drop me a comment below and I'll do what I can to answer it.
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