Letters to the MT Editors
It is always very gratifying to receive letters from readers of Mathematics Teaching.
Rather than print them in the Journal where they take up valuable space and appear a long time after the relevant article was printed, we print them here...
Thomas Croke, Minnesota, United States
I recently ... came across the Mathematics Teaching magazine. ... I think Mathematics Teaching is doing a marvelous job ... as a resource which they can use in their classroom. I look forward to using and implementing many of the ideas...
MT195
<< Read this letterDerek & Barbara Ball
We are writing to...welcome the new-look MT incorporating Micromath, with its appropriate front cover showing two students doing maths with IT (MT194). The program they are using is Colour grids, one of ATM’s programs...
MT193
Bob Burn
Here is a brief comment on the problem addressed in MT191 Transformation Geometry. The problem was: ‘Why do (ie teach or learn) geometric transformations?’
MT189
Trevor Fletcher
I was deeply impressed ... to see the many articles which referred to the Cockcroft Report...
MT188
Joyce Brown, Sunderland re the nth Term MT188
Just to say thanks ... but I feel I must point out the error...
Jane Eades re Mathematics in Context
Fifty years ago my sister was confused by an 11+ essay question which started “When I went upstairs to bed... Continue”. She didn’t understand that she had to lie...
MT187
Bob Burn
It was good to read Paola Iannone’s “Did I tell you my Pythagoras horror story?”...
Thank you for publishing an article about the teaching and learning of undergraduate maths.
Dick Tahta
The interesting article ... “Did I tell you my Pythagoras horror story?” raises various questions about proof...
MT186
Francis Ahia, Assistant Professor, Toronto, Canada
I enjoyed ... Ray Huntley’s paper: “Exploring a Mental Squaring Method”. However, I think one of the ‘simplest’ reasons why the method ... works is the difference of two squares...
