Posts tagged mathematics education
On Teaching Analysis
Timothy Gowers, University of Cambridge mathematician and Fields Medalist, is teaching an analysis class this term, and fortunately for me, he’s blogging about it. Analysis IA is part of the first-year math major sequence at the University of Cambridge, and it is a rigorous approach to calculus at the undergraduate level. I am teaching a simi [...]
On Mathematics Education and Music Ed...
This connection between mathematics education and music education has been made several times, especially in mathematics education circles. Paul Lockhart’s famous Mathematician’s Lament starts with an analogy between math education and music education. We would be appalled if music students weren’t allowed touch their instruments until they h [...]
Strumming the Lute of Pythagoras
![A drawing by Joseph Koch incorporates the Lute of Pythagoras into a portrait of Pythagoras himself. Image copyright Joseph Koch. Used with permission.](http://www.evelynjlamb.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/lute1.jpg)
91 Is April Fooling You
![91 Is April Fooling You](http://www.evelynjlamb.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/IMG_8644-300x225.jpg)
Wrong in Public: the 4-Color Theorem ...
![4-color 2 300px](http://www.evelynjlamb.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/4-color-2-300px.jpg)
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