#MTT2K: Teachers critique Khan Academy
Pretty much everyone has an opinion about learning, and the teaching that causes, impedes or just precedes it. Sal Khan famously just started making videos with the aim of helping people learn, without...
View ArticleKaTeX is a (partial) alternative to (some of) MathJax
Khan Academy has released a new library to typeset mathematical notation on webpages, called KaTeX. “But we already have MathJax!” you say, perhaps a little too enthusiastically. Well, Khan Academy has...
View ArticleBreakthrough Junior Challenge prize for the best 10-minute explanation of a...
The organisation behind the Breakthrough Prize has announced a competition aimed at school-age kids, called the Breakthrough Junior Challenge, which encourages them to get excited about maths and...
View ArticleNot mentioned on The Aperiodical this week, 18th September 2015
Gender inclusivity in mathematics at Harvard Some mathematicians at Harvard have formed an organisation called “Gender inclusivity in mathematics”, which is dedicated to “creating a community of...
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