{"id":133,"date":"2006-10-08T13:01:14","date_gmt":"2006-10-08T13:01:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/maths\/?p=133"},"modified":"2006-10-08T13:01:14","modified_gmt":"2006-10-08T13:01:14","slug":"alternative-arithmetic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/maths\/?p=133","title":{"rendered":"Alternative Arithmetic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img src='\/maths\/latexrender\/pictures\/4835c53995b66d74d2713eb1af2e69d3.gif' title='25 \\div 5=14 \\text{ and } 14 \\times 5= 25\\,?' alt='25 \\div 5=14 \\text{ and } 14 \\times 5= 25\\,?' align=absmiddle> See <a href=\"http:\/\/www.maths.manchester.ac.uk\/~avb\/micromathematics\/2006\/10\/maths-lesson_06.html\" target=\"_blank\">Maths Lesson<\/a> in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.maths.manchester.ac.uk\/~avb\/micromathematics\/\" target=\"_blank\">Mathematics Under the Microscope<\/a> blog for a &#8216;proof&#8217;. <\/p>\n<p>The film clip is amusing but just pause to think how much damage is done by non-specialist mathematics teaching. Good maths teachers should be nurtured and valued but they certainly aren&#8217;t in the UK. Grrr!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>See Maths Lesson in the Mathematics Under the Microscope blog for a &#8216;proof&#8217;. The film clip is amusing but just pause to think how much damage is done by non-specialist mathematics teaching. Good maths teachers should be nurtured and valued but they certainly aren&#8217;t in the UK. Grrr!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-133","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/maths\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/maths\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/maths\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/maths\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/maths\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=133"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/maths\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/maths\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/maths\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/maths\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}