bodmas blog

Timetabling (that three dimensional jigsaw puzzle) is occuring and it looks like I’ll be teaching a GCSE Maths course next year. Expect a week by week puzzle page. Hot Potatoes looks like the way to go with quizzes and puzzles delivered through a blog like WordPress with ‘future posting’. Animated formulas (see below) might be [...]

Napier’s Bones were a 16th century calculating device based on lattice multiplication, from the inventor of logarithms.

NeoOffice/J for Mac OS X is an Aqua native build of OpenOffice 1.4 with Java widgets (the file windows look different). But, it does not round trip edit with Word files alas…

An olive oil can leads to choice of colours