Professor Smudge Paddy MacMahon Jemma Sherwood (@jemmaths27 on Threads) Alex ~ Vic Maths Notes Timothy Gowers @wtgowers And there is what makes teaching hard and interesting: there are always things that are clear to you that aren’t to them and vice versa, there are always new ways you never thought people would be confused and new ways you never thought people would understand.

Surprised myself today by figuring out live with a student using only a drawing on the unit circle why
arcsin(cos(x))=π/2-x for x in the first quadrant.

if you think STEM is for smart people and humanities isn't you're dumb

I honestly don’t know how anyone can be expected to give meaningful feedback on the structure of a new university while simultaneously helping students make sense of what the hell Lagrange multipliers are doing.

We have just made available the recording of Prof Francis Su's public lecture at UniSA on Mathematics for Human Flourishing.

Thanks again to Francis for visiting, and for kindly allowing us to make this available to everyone.

Watch here: youtube.com/watch?v=mhrunq…

UniSA CRESI

“If you think the white nationalists are doing such a bad job analyzing black crime statistics, why don’t you analyze it for them?”

New post: Thinking about conceptual understanding.

jemmaths.wordpress.com/2024/04/21/thi…

Following on from reading 𝐁𝐚𝐫𝐫𝐲 𝐆𝐚𝐫𝐞𝐥𝐢𝐜𝐤 today.

Back to work after 11 days off.
Looking at The List, I’m tired already.

How many? #unitChat