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Tutorials for an intro Arts course: Story makes sense of number
Sometime in the past, I was approached by academics in the Faculty of Arts to discuss the numeracy skills of the students in their faculty. They wanted to discuss how they might include numeracy skills in some of their courses across all the degrees they teach. It was a lot bigger than the MLC could reasonably do, but I said I would certainly be able to do a small thing in a few courses, and certainly help their students in the MLC itself when they came to talk.
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Playing SET
Amie Albrecht recently posted a most wonderful blog post about SET, and it reminded me there were some SET-related things I should post too.
The second part of the Four Fours
The four fours is a rather famous little puzzle that requires some creativity and also gets people thinking about how the operations interact with each other. One thing I find both frustrating and fascinating is what happens when people come up with numbers that are very hard to produce with the standard basic operations of addition, subtraction, multiplication and division. People seem to be focused on producing the results in any way they can, rather than asking whether it's possible to produce the results. You also start getting solutions using All The Things, even though it's totally possible to get the answer for some of them just using the most basic of operations.
