From time to time, I’ve had guest posts on this blog: see here, here, here, here and here. More accurately, these guest posts were pre-written articles that the authors agreed to be republished on the blog. In any case, I’m happy to contemplate more such posts, pre-written or otherwise, and I’m now inviting readers to consider this. Continue reading “Host Requests Posts by Guests”
Month: July 2022
PoSWW 28: The Intersection of Feminism With PISA
A few days ago Greg Ashman handballed an article to us, suggesting we might enjoy it, although clearly he meant “enjoy” it. The (paywalled) article, just published in the journal Research in Mathematics Education, is titled
Intersectional feminism to reenvision mathematical literacies & precarity
Yeah, you don’t have to read the article. We did.
Continue reading “PoSWW 28: The Intersection of Feminism With PISA”
Eulogy 2
Again. At least this time I kind of know what a eulogy is. But for Jeff? He was way too young for this. And too weird, too unconventional. Anti-conventional. But here goes. Continue reading “Eulogy 2”
VTAC Converts an Own Goal
VTAC, the Victorian body responsible for figuring out ATARs and the like, is, of course, a professional and widely respected organisation. VTAC is staffed by very well-qualified boffiny stats types, just quietly doing their boffiny stats thing, and they don’t make mistakes. Well, except for this. And this. And really, really this.
Anyway, a few months ago the Evil Mathologre alerted us to some new(ly discovered) weirdness courtesy of the always-perfect VTAC. Or, maybe it’s courtesy of ACTAC, which is the national umbrella group encompassing all of the State-TACs. It’s difficult to tell, since, much like QANTAS, it seems that ACTAC cannot be contacted, appearing to exist only as an abstract concept. Anyway anyway, to the weirdness. Continue reading “VTAC Converts an Own Goal”
Discussion of the 2022 NHT Specialist Exams
This is our post for discussion of the 2022 NHT Specialist Mathematics exams, which have now been posted, here and here. (See also our corresponding 2022 NHT Methods exams post.) We’ve had a quick browse, and found plenty of irritants but no glaringly large errors. We don’t plan to look further or to post on the exams, except to follow up on whatever people find worthy of comment. Continue reading “Discussion of the 2022 NHT Specialist Exams”
Discussion of the 2022 NHT Methods Exams
This is our post for discussion of the 2022 NHT Mathematical Methods exams, which have now been posted, here and here. (See also our corresponding 2022 NHT Specialist exams post.) We’ve had a quick browse, and found plenty of irritants but no glaringly large errors. We don’t plan to look further or to post on the exams, except to follow up on whatever people find worthy of comment. Continue reading “Discussion of the 2022 NHT Methods Exams”
Goodbye to Jeff
Philosopher, poet, musician. A dreamer with neither foot ever anywhere near the ground. Father, husband. Brother. Continue reading “Goodbye to Jeff”
AAMT Incorporates Nonsense
The following was just forwarded to us. The application (dropbox links) are here and here, and the proposed constitution is here.
The MERGA Competition
Time for another competition. This one is sort of a localised version of a previous competition, and the motivation is similar. Continue reading “The MERGA Competition”
They Don’t Make ‘Em Like That Anymore
Now that we got it, what do we do with it? (And yes, we were bothered by the absence of brackets, but that’s probably not the main issue here.) Continue reading “They Don’t Make ‘Em Like That Anymore”