Posts Tagged ‘mathematics’
Mathematical mind as flexible clay
Posted by: Gary Ernest Davis on: March 4, 2011
Blair Miller (@millerblair) commented (March 3, 2011) on the blog post A challenge to mathematics teachers: can your class become a community of practice? He agreed with something I’d written on that post: “It’s not hard helping students learn the techniques they need to analyze data. What is hard is getting them to be interested […]
Some fun with a (very) simple matrix
Posted by: Gary Ernest Davis on: February 20, 2011
Geometry of a transformation The matrix is very simple: it has entries consisting only of 0’s and 1’s. As a matrix we can think of as transforming points in the euclidean plane. These are points with coordinates where are real numbers. The matrix transforms the point into the point : We can look at what […]
