Lecturer at Maths Learning Centre, Uni Adelaide (my views here). Grad Dip Ed & PhD Finite Geom. Love maths and helping people learn. he/him #MTBoS #100factorial
Jan 28, 2022 • 98 tweets • 20 min read
New thread for Wordle results after deciding on my latest non-emoji way to share. Previous game is here:
1: Y b b b Y …
2: Y Y b b b …
3: b G Y b b …
4: G G b b G …
5: G G G G G …
A fairly lucky guess at Guess 5 there!
Nov 3, 2020 • 55 tweets • 9 min read
I am going to #trymathslive with this question from @jamestanton
(Just to clarify: I will be tweeting my whole thought process including questions I ask to myself, and do not need suggestions or corrections unless I explicitly say I want outside help.)
The problem was intriguing because it seemed like it wasn’t much information that has to be true to force the whole function to behave a certain way.
Jul 2, 2020 • 9 tweets • 2 min read
I just had a most interesting conversation with a high school student who is losing marks because he isn’t showing enough working. He is really struggling to know where the line is for what working to show or not show.
The most interesting thing was his description of how he uses his own written working:
He does what he can in his head, and writes things down when he feels he doesn’t have room to hold all the information at once. The paper is for him an external drive to save information.
