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One of my friends and a past MLC staffer graduated from her PhD yesterday (congratulations Jo!). One of my strongest memories of Jo is when she told me something about my teaching that I never knew I was doing, but that she saw as an essential part of what I was trying to achieve at the MLC. That's what I want to share with you today.
Disjointed independence
There are two terminologies in probability which many students are confused about: "independent" and "disjoint". The other day I was working with a student listening to their thinking on this and I suddenly realised why.
Quarter the Cross
At the end of last year, the MTBoS (Math(s) Twitter Blog-o-Sphere) introduced me to this very interesting task: you have a cross made of four equal squares, and you are supposed to colour in exactly 1/4 of the cross and justify why you know it's a quarter. I call it "Quarter the Cross".
The crossed trapezium
Recently I started thinking about the properties of the following shape, which I like to call the "Crossed Trapezium". It has two parallel edges, which are joined by two crossing lines.
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