John Gray - An Appreciation 27 Jul 2008
My dad taught Philosophy and Sociology all of his professional life, and in his retirement continues to study and think about these subjects. He...
May 2008: News
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Primitives
Primitives is an innovative new idea for visualising numbers and the relationships between numbers. Primitives is freely available to use on this website.
About
ptolemy.co.uk is the website of Alec McEachran, a maths and philosophy teacher, and software developer.
Alec's first title, Furbles was published by Sherston Publishing in January 2007.
Primitives, first published in late 2007, is free software for visualising numbers and their relationships. It was featured in an article in Mathematics Teacher magazine in March 2008.
The ptolemy.co.uk blog is Alec's blog about his interests in the overlapping worlds of maths education, philosophy education, and technology.
A small collection of Flash/AS3 experiments is also available online.
Recent Blog Posts
Lockhart's Lament 10 Jul 2008
In an ongoing email conversation within the ranks of the ATM on its purpose and voice within the uk educational establishment, one of our...
Bowland Maths 16 Jun 2008
The new Bowland Maths Website is the website of a new project which seeks to ground maths in an explorative, problem solving...