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Ford celebrates Pi Day
March 14 isn’t just another day on the calendar for Ford engineers. To them, and many other math fanatics around the world, today is Pi Day (3.14 day), a holiday recognizing the role mathematics has in...
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The i(pads) have it
Grade 2, late-1980s, Australia… Sitting inside my primary school’s computer lab, we played Sheepdog Round-Up on huge Macintosh computers that were, for the time, pretty swanky. Remember DOS? Yep. That....
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Saskatchewan First Nation students win national mathematics honours
For most of us, competitive mathematics doesn’t exactly set the pulse racing. But for a group of high-achieving First Nations students, it has provided a widened set of skills and recognition on the...
View ArticleNew U of R course is designed to make better math teachers
When Kathy Nolan was a classroom teacher, she specialized in math, a subject she enjoyed as a student. But in the past 16 years as a University of Regina education professor, she has met many teachers...
View ArticleOpinion: Education cuts threaten advances in curriculum renewal
On Nov. 1, Education Minister Bronwyn Eyre joined radio host John Gormley to discuss mathematics education in Saskatchewan. Much of the discussion centred on ideas of how mathematics should be taught —...
View ArticleLetter: Education woes cited by Sask. Party created by Sask. Party
Christopher Keyes of Regina writes: I was somewhat dismayed by remarks Saskatchewan’s education minister, Bronwyn Eyre, made recently. Her criticism of both mathematics and Indigenous education in this...
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