Samuel Hansen and I have been doing the Math/Maths Podcast (#MathMaths to those on Twitter) for almost a year. In fact, our 50th episode next weekend will coincide with the one year anniversary of our first recording. To celebrate, we plan to stream the podcast recording live as we record it. We will record at…
Too old for such silly toys
Recently I had a birthday. My family kindly bought me a set of mathematical presents, including a Tippe Top, a Rattleback and a Gaussian gun. I show these and my other presents in action (the mathematical ones, at least) in the following video.
HE Mathematics HE Curriculum Summit in THE
There is an article on the website of Times Higher Education (THE) ‘Maths teaching seeks the formula for good graduates‘, which is about the report of the HE Mathematics Curriculum Summit, which I edited. I recording some thoughts about this hours before the deadline for the related funding call as episode 8 of the Maths…
Smart Phone Apps for University Mathematics
You may remember I work on curriculum innovation as part of the Mathematical Sciences Strand of the National HE STEM Programme. Hazel Kendrick, who works on outreach, has been collecting a list of smart phone and tablet apps for mathematics undergraduates and lecturers. Her original request to the Maths-Prom mailing list said: We are interested…
Maths of AV: a reading list
On the recent Math/Maths Podcast, among other things, we discussed the upcoming referendum on the UK voting system. Since then, I’ve become aware of a few more articles and blog posts that may be of interest. The referendum asks for a “Yes” to change the method of running the election of MPs to Westminster to…
Mathematical podcasting
Samuel Hansen and I appear in the report from the 13th IMA Early Career Mathematicians Conference in the latest Mathematics Today, which we spoke at on ‘Mathematical Podcasting’, during “Math/Maths Week” last November. Next up were two of our more tech-savvy colleagues Samuel Hansen (University of Nevada, Las Vegas) and Peter Rowlett (University of Birmingham),…
‘Technology in mathematics HE teaching & learning’
On the second day of Young Researchers in Mathematics 2011 at the University of Warwick I gave my second of two talks, this time on ‘Technology in mathematics HE teaching & learning’. This is a demo of some ways people are including technology in their teaching, learning and assessment. This follows the talk on the…