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Gerry-mean-dering
A recent video from Howie Hua showed how if you split a collection of numbers into equal-sized groups, then find the mean of each group, then find the mean of those means, it turns out this final answer is the same as the mean of the original collection. He was careful to say it usually does 苍辞迟听work if the groups were different sizes. Which got me to wondering: just how much of an effect on the final mean-of-means can you have by splitting a collection of numbers into different-sized groups?
Making the lie true
We at my university regularly sell quite a big lie.
Introducing Digit Disguises with a small game
Because [reasons], my game Digit Disguises has been on my mind recently, and reading the original blog post from 2019, I suddenly realised I had never shared my ideas on how to introduce the game to a whole class at once.
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Why mathematical induction is hard
Students find mathematical induction hard, and there is a complex interplay of reasons why. Some years ago I wrote an answer on the Maths Education Stack Exchange describing these and it's still something I come back to regularly. I've decided to post it here too.
Space to enter
This is a photo of the entrance to my Maths Learning Centre. What do you notice?
Book Reading: You're Not Listening
This blog post is about the book聽You're Not Listening by Kate Murphy, and in particular my reactions to it from a teacher's perspective.
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