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Projects in mathematics class: GeoGebra
Posted by: Gary Ernest Davis on: February 10, 2011
x On January 29, Michel Paul sent me the following email: “The first posting I saw of yours was No tests, quizzes, exams and no homework about a year ago. It deeply resonated with me, as in trying to incorporate GeoGebra, Python, and Sage in my classes, the idea of more project-based assessment started to […]
Ï€ does go on forever (unpredictably)
Posted by: Gary Ernest Davis on: January 26, 2011
Reuters new agency reported on January 20, here 2011 that a Japanese systems engineer, Shigeru Kondo, had used a home-built computer to calculate to trillions of digits and thereby broken the existing Guinness Book of Records entry for calculating . A sentence toward the end of the report caught my eye: “Calculating a more accurate […]
