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• Elementary Number Theory in Nine Chapters
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• Innumeracy

Elementary Number Theory in Nine Chapters

The British Educational Technology show, held annually at Olympia in London, was its usual busy success this year. The big players were all there - RM, IBM, Compaq, ICL/Fujitsu, Intel and last, but of course not least, Microsoft.

Dear Sir,

Back in March the Department for Education and Employment (DfEE) invited businesses, educationalists (including our very own Millennium Mathematics Project) and the media to a conference in London to introduce their strategies for the Maths Year 2000, which will begin in January and run throughout next year.

Mathematics is vital for any modern technological nation. Economic success depends on technology, which depends upon engineering, which depends upon science, which ultimately depends upon mathematics. But because mathematics lies at the far end of this chain, its importance is not always appreciated: and many people think that mathematics is what they were taught at school and have no idea of its true depth. Some people are even proud of being bad at it!

If you'd like to contribute to "Geometer's corner" please write to PASS Maths using Any comments?.

In the first instalment of a series of articles on the use of Geometry software at A-level, Paul Blythin of Peter Symonds' College takes us through his experiences with Geometer's Sketchpad.

Review by Don Kite, a Secondary Schools Maths Teacher.
Followed by a response from the authors.

PC CD-ROM, developed by the CALM Team,
Department of Mathematics, Heriot-Watt University.

Teaching maths through contextualised material. Have you given it a sporting chance?

A request from Garrod Musto who is currently a maths teacher at Kingswood School in Bath.

For many years educationalists have talked about "Relevancy of the Curriculum", and "maths in context", with a view to preparing pupils for everyday life, and thus the importance of "real world applications".

http://nrich.maths.org.uk

NRICH has established a worldwide following with registrations of new members and schools increasing at a rate of 50 per month. All materials are freely available on the Internet and registration (also free) is only necessary in order to submit solutions for publication, join the mailing lists or use the "Ask a Mathematician" Answering Service.