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I had a meeting with an international student in the MLC on Friday who has having a whole lot of language issues in her maths class.
TMC16 reflections from someone who wasn't there
This post is about my response to TMC16. For the uninitiated, TMC is short for Twitter Math Camp. This is a conference designed by teachers for teachers with teacher speakers, organised through the collective efforts of the Math Twitter Blog-o-Sphere (MTBoS) – a group of people who blog and tweet about their experiences teaching math(s). That description is not the best description of the MTBoS, but I'll get to that later.
[Read more about TMC16 reflections from someone who wasn't there]
David Butler and the Prisoner of Alhazen
Once upon a time, I did a PhD in projective geometry. It was all about objects called quadrals (a word I made up) - ovals, ovoids, conics, quadrics and their cones - and the lines associated with them - tangents, secants, external lines, generator lines. During the first two years, I did talks about my PhD research, which I could not resist calling "David Butler and the Philosopher's Cone" and "David Butler and the Chamber of Secants".
Mansplaining
A few months ago, I learned a new word: "mansplaining". You may have heard it before, but I never had until this year.
The line at infinity
I foolishly said this on Twitter about a month ago:
A Day of Maths
Last Monday, I was invited into my daughter's Year 7 classroom to do a full day of maths with the students. It was the Best Day Ever. I had so much fun giving the students things to think about, and watching and helping the students think and talk about them.
