Passing Curiosity: Posts tagged maths https://passingcuriosity.com/tags/maths/maths.xml Thomas Sutton me@thomas-sutton.id.au 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z Fundamental Constructs in Mathematics Education https://passingcuriosity.com/2006/fundamental-constructs-in-mathematics-education/ 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z Fundamental Constructs in Mathematics Education John Mason and Sue Johnston-Wilder (editors).

After an introduction to the beingness of the thinghood of constructs (named, described phenomena as far as I can tell), this book launches straight into extracts describing some of the most important and influential experiments in mathematics education. I’ve read the first chapter which describes a number of experiments that have been used to investigate the way children learn mathematical concepts. So far it has been a good deal more readable than I was expecting.

]]> Yet Another Book Purchase or This Time, It's Maths https://passingcuriosity.com/2005/yet-another-book-purchase-or-this-time-its-maths/ 2005-08-25T00:00:00Z 2005-08-25T00:00:00Z Recent Data Mining lectures have been looking at the Apriori Principle The discussion of a set-theoretic framework within which to consider data mining (more specifically, market basket analysis) prompted me to have a look in the maths section of the bookshop for a book on the topic. I came out with a copy of Introduction to Lattices and Order. What [little] I’ve read of it so far is very well written.

The bad news is that I need to get back into reading so that I can write the literature review and background sections of my thesis without screwing anything up or misrepresenting anything too badly. I have a feeling that it’s going to be a long time before I finish up the 17 books I’ve got bookmarks in.

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