You probably got the sense that I like teaching mathematics, but it turns out I like doing it too. Below is a little narrative description of a number theoretical question I was fooling around with. It has minimal prerequisites for understanding — things you’ll probably know if you know about convergent series (a_1 + a_2 [...]
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Number Theory Freestyle
Posted in Mathematics on April 17, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
A Problem in Self-Similar Tilings
Posted in Education, Mathematics on April 14, 2009 | 2 Comments »
This [pdf] is the note on that remarkable series of lessons I mentioned – it has pictures, which is why it’s not posted directly here. The link takes you to the draft currently under review for publication in The Mathematics Teacher. Update (3/16/10): The Mathematics Teacher inexplicably did not accept the note for publication. In [...]
