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	<description>Mathematics, Philosophy and Technology in Education</description>
	<pubDate>Tue, 07 Oct 2008 18:52:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Geometry, by eye</title>
		<link>http://www.ptolemy.co.uk/blog/archives/113</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Oct 2008 18:52:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>alec</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[geometry]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A quickie: here&#8217;s an interesting game from Canada where users have to find various interesting geometrical properties by eye and are assessed programmatically on their accuracy:
http://woodgears.ca/eyeball/
My score as about 3.03, having frustratingly crepty above an accuracy score of 3 with a shocking 9 in my final problem.
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		<title>Maths Education and the Metric System</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Sep 2008 21:07:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The following conversation in Metric Views catches the attention both for the interesting article and the subsequent comments.
Metric Views: Are our schools entrenching the &#8216;very British mess&#8217;?
The gist is that our schools reflect our current social muddle by teaching both imperial and metric measures and their relative magnitudes in school. In the article it is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>John Gray - An Appreciation</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Jul 2008 13:32:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[My dad taught Philosophy and Sociology all of his professional life, and in his retirement continues to study and think about these subjects. He recently gave a talk about the work of John Gray to the Erasmus Darwin Society in Lichfield, Staffordshire.
John Gray is currently Professor of European Thought at the LSE, and has been [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lockhart&#8217;s Lament</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Jul 2008 14:27:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>alec</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[In an ongoing email conversation within the ranks of the ATM on its purpose and voice within the uk educational establishment, one of our numbers recommended we read Lockhart&#8217;s Lament, an article posted on the website of the Mathematical Association of America by Keith Devlin.
Lockhart&#8217;s Lament is a a heartfelt plea to the beauty of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bowland Maths</title>
		<link>http://www.ptolemy.co.uk/blog/archives/105</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Jun 2008 23:07:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>alec</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[The new Bowland Maths Website is the website of a new project which seeks to ground maths in an explorative, problem solving environment.
Bowland Mathematics seeks to develop meta-cognitive skills and promote an analytical, quantitative attitude towards problem solving. These goals are worthy, and important life skills, but they are difficult to measure cleanly. With curricula [...]]]></description>
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