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Archive for February 2011

Save 30%, be 30% better off?

Posted by: Gary Ernest Davis on: February 22, 2011

A travel advertisement running, currently in the US, says you can save 30% on travel costs, and so be 30% better off. Is that right? How about 50% off? To make it easier to think about, let’s think how much we would save if we got 50% off the price of something. Suppose some item […]

What would you do?

Posted by: Gary Ernest Davis on: February 21, 2011

In a previous post I explained how I have, over recent semesters, organized my teaching around projects and a more studio style of teaching. I rely a lot on technology in teaching students to solve differential equations because for the most part that is exactly how they will solve them in their professional life, if […]