Articles Tagged with calculus

Teaching to the test (II)

Good questions?

The hardest part of teaching may be finding good questions to ask.

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Three dimensions are hard

Two is easy, four is elegant

Sometimes the more sophisticated stuff is easier.

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Better but harder

Simple becomes difficult

We ponder how the same scientific task gets harder with time.

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Technology and tedium

Riemann sums

Sometimes technological advances mean things are less exciting.

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A small change

Making it harder

We ponder the question of just what makes a math problem difficult.

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Don’t know much geometry (II)

Stuff I learned in school

More reasons for apparently useless subjects.

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