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Christine Vretta and Steve Smith are Second Year Joint Honours students at Keele University.
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Christine Vretta
Christine Vretta and Steve Smith are Second Year Joint Honours students at Keele University.
Christine Vretta
Find out how modern telephone networks use mathematics to make it possible for a person to dial a friend in another country just as easily as if they were in the same street, or to read web pages that are on a computer in another continent.
This article appeared in The Independent, Wednesday 30 April 1997 and is reprinted with their kind permission.
The atmosphere in one polling company's office was described as "frantic" yesterday as pollsters prepared to publish their final figures tomorrow - the ones on which they will be judged. After the disaster of 1992, when the opinion polls mis-estimated the Tory lead by between seven and 11 percentage points, their reputation is on the line.
I have come across a problem to which I have so far been able to find no satisfactory answer. I wonder if any of your readers can help me!
A man witnesses a crime involving a taxi. He says that the taxi is blue. You know from previous research that witnesses are correct 80% of the time when making such statements. You also know that 85% of the taxis in the town are blue.
Geoff Tennant teaches mathematics at Mill Hill School, Muswell Hill, North London. He also acts as a consultant for TV productions designed for mathematics teaching.
Peter Edwards, Senior Lecturer in Engineering Mathematics, Department of Product Design and Manufacture, Bournemouth University
e-mail:pedwards@bournemouth.ac.uk
This article appeared in the April 1997 issue of Mathematics Today and is reprinted with their kind permission.
Trevor Easingwood, C.Math. FIMA
Honorary Treasurer, Chair of Education Committee
This paper outlines the main features of the specifications for the new cores for all subjects at AS- and A-levels which are being introduced into syllabuses to be taught from September 1998.
CAL is a biennial conference which met in March of this year at the School of Education, University of Exeter. The focus of the conference is on the use of computers to enhance teaching and learning in all sectors of education. Each conference is organised almost entirely by members of the host institution so there are refreshing differences between each meeting which sets CAL apart from other conferences I have attended.
Carnivorous beetles hunt down breakfast