Thanks to you all who took the time to listen to my talk on Radio 702 with Azania from 2-3 pm today (Wednesday 27 Jan 2016).
There were a large number of callers and some very interesting questions raised. I would like to respond to these individually and to attempt to summarise the topics.
It was a great experience to have the opportunity to present my case for improving school-level mathematics at TEDx Johannesburg at the exceptional Soweto Theatre today.
During the talk I posed an interesting mathematical question, which is suitable for the Grade 9 level. I am now analysing this further and exploring its solution, which is far easier than it appears on the surface. The question is to evaluate the following expression:
and there are 3 marks given for the answer. [Read more…]
