MUMS Friday Event: Graph Algebras.

Posted on October 21st, 2010 by Mobyseven

Argh! This is it, folks — the last seminar of the semester (as next week we’ve got a trivia night planned instead)! You don’t want to miss out on this…so don’t! Same time and place as always: Details are below the fold… —————

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Fuck fractions.

Posted on October 21st, 2010 by Mobyseven

Oh, Jason Rosenhouse, how you make my maths sense tingle. He’s written up a beautiful, beautiful rant about all manner of things relating to how fractions are taught in school: And why is it that every kid, when learning how to add fractions, is told of the terrible things that occur upon failing to use [...]

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