Well I know that I don't have all that many readers here but I don't mind too much. To judge from recent Sitemeter reports some people are actually reading what I have written, even if they are not so interested in commenting.
A quick reminder. I am no expert, in anything. Just a vaguely mature student of A Level maths who is doing it in his spare time when he isn't down the pub or surfing the blogosphere with increasing frustration and disappointment. So this blog was intended to be a wholly positive space in which I could devote time and effort to something of thought, however superficial. I do have a couple of problems though, especially with graphics and symbols. I still haven't worked out how to show these in blogposts properly. I have heard of something called TeX or LaTeX but i don't know how to use it.
If you have found anything on here useful, then I'm glad. It will be the first geniune contribution a blog of mine has made to the world.
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Showing posts with label introduction. Show all posts
Saturday, 13 September 2008
Wednesday, 6 August 2008
Square Completed
I thought that, given that I am starting to bore the pants off my remaining reader with maths, that I would start another blog - a maths one, in order to ponder, meander, bore and generally think about maths.
As you may or may not care, I am studying A Level Maths: by profession I am an English and primary teacher. I have had "issues" with maths since around 1986, when a few doses of being ritually humilaiated in front of the class, being told to do weird things like "borrowing" and having masses of hard fractions to do cocked everything up - until then I had always been top of the class in maths and English. I had a fantastic Maths teacher for GCSE and, for a while, for AS Maths - but eventually I had to give it up as I was trying for Oxford, plus it was too hard.
So, this year giving me this year's stuff, I decided to take up the maths again and see if I could be brighter than I was at 18, or as bright as I was at 9, or just not completely crap at maths.
Please be warned that if you are coming here looking for expert comment or knowledgeable input, you are in the wrong place. I know next to nothing at all about maths and I am trying to get some sort of handle on it at A Level: I claim no authority of any kind. Anything I write here comes with the caveat "I know nothing at all about maths".
Unlike over at TTD of course...
As you may or may not care, I am studying A Level Maths: by profession I am an English and primary teacher. I have had "issues" with maths since around 1986, when a few doses of being ritually humilaiated in front of the class, being told to do weird things like "borrowing" and having masses of hard fractions to do cocked everything up - until then I had always been top of the class in maths and English. I had a fantastic Maths teacher for GCSE and, for a while, for AS Maths - but eventually I had to give it up as I was trying for Oxford, plus it was too hard.
So, this year giving me this year's stuff, I decided to take up the maths again and see if I could be brighter than I was at 18, or as bright as I was at 9, or just not completely crap at maths.
Please be warned that if you are coming here looking for expert comment or knowledgeable input, you are in the wrong place. I know next to nothing at all about maths and I am trying to get some sort of handle on it at A Level: I claim no authority of any kind. Anything I write here comes with the caveat "I know nothing at all about maths".
Unlike over at TTD of course...
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