Over fifteen years, my colleague Burkard and I gave tons of free talks and articles and everythings for the Mathematical Association of Victoria. In turn, they, and by “they” I mean 98%…| BAD MATHEMATICS
There have appeared a number of things to write about, but I have been too crazy-busy to write on any of it. That should change a little now, and I will try to chip away at the backlog, but imminen…| BAD MATHEMATICS
I cannot stand podcasts. I really hate them, for all the obvious reasons. They typically consist of self-satisfied tossers interviewing their self-satisfied tosser mates, teaming up to aimlessly pi…| BAD MATHEMATICS
A few years ago, before having introduced the secret exam business and the exam error lists, I posted a WitCH on a question from the previous year’s Specialist Exam 1. For me, there was a gla…| BAD MATHEMATICS
The VCE exam leak story is obviously big news, with both Melbourne newspapers running prominent reports and op eds, steadily increasing the heat. The Age published a strong editorial yesterday, whi…| BAD MATHEMATICS
Presumably many readers of this blog will have read or heard of Susie O’Brien’s new Herald-Sun story, on the “compromised” VCE exams, and if not they will probably hear plen…| BAD MATHEMATICS
Go for it. UPDATE (15/11/24) VCAA has now published the exam, here. UPDATE (06/12/24) And the marking guide is here.| BAD MATHEMATICS
It is not our intention, much less our desire, to be actively monitoring Foundation Mathematics. Whatever the real or imagined purposes for such a subject, it is of close to zero interest to us. We…| BAD MATHEMATICS
Let’s see. Who haven’t we insulted recently? Ah, yes: teachers. OK, so the title of this post could have been a tad less inflammatory. I’m serious, however, so what the hell. We&#…| BAD MATHEMATICS
