“Researchers asked 3,000 11 to 14-year- olds in England to sit maths exams taken by pupils in 1976, and compared their scores with the earlier results. Analysis suggested there was little difference between the two generations.” BBC News article (no attribution)
What I noticed about this research is the way ‘maths’ is assumed to have some [...]
“The first thing she found is that young people today write far more than any generation before them. That’s because so much socializing takes place online, and it almost always involves text. Of all the writing that the Stanford students did, a stunning 38 percent of it took place out of the classroom—life writing, as [...]
Computers have windows and some way of pointing at things on the display. Mobile devices are moving over to touch sensitive displays with ‘gestural’ commands. Here is some pre-history…
Ivan Sutherland’s SketchPad demonstrated by Alan Kay. Sutherland’s PhD supervisor what Claude Shannon, and he in turn supervised Kay’s research. Alan Kay contributed to the development of [...]
You can blog about (almost) anything. Forgotten Bookmarks is a blog that shows photographs of book covers with the bookmarks found inside them. My favourite so far is the Lab Work bookmark. Neat starting point for a story…
There are some photos of an old school arithmetic exercise book dated 1904, with some nice percentage problems!
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Diving into the large trifle that is enrolment soon, and catching up after holidays. Lots of Maths coming, but for now
BBC page on PowerPointA ‘eulogy’ for the online presence of someone who is alive, well and probably having funWhy you should set a WiFi password on your router