Book reviews
Book Review: Insights into Game Theory by Ein-Ya Gura & Michael M. Maschler
Game theory is one of those areas of mathematics that students often encounter by name long before they get any real sense of what it involves. Gura and...
Book reviews
Book Review: Mathematicians: An Outer View of the Inner World by Mariana Cook
This is a book unlike almost anything else on a mathematics shelf. Mariana Cook is a photographer, and what she has produced here is a portrait collection of...
Book reviews
Book Review: Neural Networks and Deep Learning by Michael Nielsen
Michael Nielsen’s Neural Networks and Deep Learning has quietly become one of the most respected introductions to the subject available, and having spent time with it I can...
Book reviews
Book Review: The Computational Beauty of Nature by Gary W. Flake
There are not many books that manage to connect computation, mathematics and the natural world in a way that feels genuinely unified rather than forced. Gary Flake’s The...
Book reviews
Book Review: The New Quantum Universe by T. Hey & P. Walters
Quantum mechanics is one of those subjects that students hear about constantly but rarely get to see explained in a way that is both honest and accessible. Hey...
Book reviews
Book Review: How to Think Like a Mathematician by Kevin Houston
I came across Kevin Houston’s How to Think Like a Mathematician a while back and honestly wish someone had put it in my hands much earlier. If you’re...
IB Mathematics
What Teaching Mathematics in Different Countries Taught Me?
I have taught Mathematics in India, the UAE, Singapore and Switzerland. Each system taught me something the others could not. Here is what I carried forward from each...
IB Mathematics
Do We Really Need Exams? What the IB Cancellation in West Asia Reveals
The recent decision by the IB to cancel examinations in parts of West Asia has triggered an important question. Not just for students, but for educators, school leaders,...
IB Mathematics
Using Rosenshine’s Principles in IB Mathematics Teaching
Rosenshine's Principles of Instruction offer a powerful framework for IB Mathematics teachers. Here is how to apply them alongside the Harkness Method in DP and MYP classrooms.
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