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“Math Wars”

Photo credits: two unknown and one from monkeymucker Edited by Brian

I recently read a post at:

dolcevitaacademy, which talked a bit about something that is close to my heart, which is: should you focus on teaching concrete skills first, or rather on concepts? (I’ve blogged about that on [...]

Hintikka’s Paradox

I’ve got lots more to post about bases, but right now I’m faced with a paradox – Hintikka’s Paradox, to be precise. 

Hintikka’s Paradox comes from Deontic Logic, a form of Modal Logic. I first read about it in Raymond Smullyan’s “Alice in Puzzleland’ (a brilliant book about logic, and Alice in Wonderland, that is [...]

Bases – What are they? (Part 2)

Continued from the post about  ”What is a Base?”:

The same person wrote a follow up comment:

“you are not pretending i’m stupid!!!!! Okay is a base the number you can multiply by????? “example: base two is 2,4,6,8,10,12,14,16,18 ?????????i don’t know what you mean!”

Yeah, keep trying to convince me that you’re stupid. From your [...]