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5 great things about being a maths teacher

Posted by: Gary Ernest Davis on: May 1, 2012

This is a guest post written by Kimberley McCosh (@spyanki_apso on Twitter) ________________________________________________ 5 great things about being a maths teacher Kimberley McCosh I love maths.  I have had a few jobs before becoming a maths teacher but the urge to teach was always there.  I am a self confessed maths geek and I love nothing […]

A lovely observation

Posted by: Gary Ernest Davis on: January 13, 2012

Ben Vitale (@BenVitale on Twitter) recently made the elementary and lovely observation that x Some people asked why this is so, and the answer, simple as it is, makes a nice middle or high school problem First let’s think about what’s happening here. The numerators of these fractions are sums of the first few odd […]