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#mathematics #cats

When you finally find a real life solution you can apply maths to:

Picture of 2 cats, both share a box but one is also in another box.

Formula (x+x^y)^y but x is a cat drawing and y a box drawing.

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Mathematics Teaching 296 now available online https://atm.org.uk/Mathematics-Teaching-Journal-Archive/177731

Design and cover photographs by me

Four free articles for non-members:

Everyone can think mathematically by Tom Francome
Tom Francome explores ways of developing the mathematical thinking of all students, including low attainers.
https://atm.org.uk/write/MediaUploads/Journals/MT296/02.pdf

Book review Learning with AI by Ian Benson
Ian Benson reviews 'Learning with AI' by Joan Monahan Watson published by Johns Hopkins University Press (296 pages, $24.95)
https://atm.org.uk/write/MediaUploads/Journals/MT296/14.pdf

Book review Breaking images by Pete Wright
Pete Wright reviews ‘Breaking images: Iconoclastic analyses of mathematics and its education’, edited by Brian Greer, David Kollosche, and Ole Skovsmose.
https://atm.org.uk/write/MediaUploads/Journals/MT296/15.pdf

Ole Skovsmose—the man who put the critique in critical mathematics education by Peter Gates
Peter Gates has collated this obituary for Ole Skovmose.
https://atm.org.uk/write/MediaUploads/Journals/MT296/16.pdf

#MathematicsTeaching #iTeachMath #MathEd #MathsEd #Math #Mathematics #education #design #GraphicDesign #atm #MT #MT296 #photography

Cover of Mathematics Teaching 296, June 2025. The cover is mainly white and is dominated by four photographs of people at the Joint Conference of Mathematical Subject Associations. Top left: an audience applauds a speaker that is outside the picture. Top right: a smiling woman holds an octahedron made of yellow balloons and another woman looks on. Bottom left: people seated at tables look at a woman holding a large piece of paper with writing and drawing on it. Bottom right: a smiling man wears a hat made of red, yellow and purple balloons.

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‘Exploring triangles at the Institute of Mathematics Pedagogy (IMP)’
Tandi Clausen-May reflects on an exploration of 3D shapes made from triangles.

https://atm.org.uk/write/MediaUploads/Journals/MT295/03.pdf

One of the two free articles from Mathematics Teaching 295 for non-members.
#geometry #triangle #helix #polydron #MathematicsTeaching #atm #MT #MT295 #iTeachMath #MathEd #Math #Education #mathematics

Photographs of colourful 3D shapes made from Polydron triangles.
Figure 11. Joining tetrahedra.
Figure 12. Quadruple helix.
Figure 13. One-ribbon triple helix.
Figure 14. Two-ribbon triple helix.

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“The USA Math Olympiad is an extremely challenging math competition for the top US high school students… Hours after it was completed…a team of scientists gave the problems to some of the top large language models, whose mathematical and reasoning abilities have been loudly proclaimed… The results were dismal: None of the AIs scored higher than 5% overall”
—Ernest Davis & Gary Marcus, Reports of LLMs mastering math have been greatly exaggerated
https://garymarcus.substack.com/p/reports-of-llms-mastering-math-have
#mathematics #llms #llm #ai

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