Just your average paradox
Let’s suppose you were interested to know the demographic of a particular neighbourhood, and so you sent out two survey teams to collect the data. Survey Team A came back…
Raters gonna rate
We live in a world that is extraordinarily dynamic. Understanding the world is therefore in large part about understanding how things change. Enter the concept of rate, which is far…
The way it functions (Part 3)
In this article, we are going to scrutinize both surjective (onto) and injective (one-to-one) functions and study their significance. Recall that we first introduced them in Remark 9.1 in a…
The way it functions (Part 2)
Last time, we had an introductory discussion of the concept of functions in a more or less informal setting. In particular, we described functions using arrow diagrams. While they are…
The way it functions (Part 1)
What is the single most important concept in mathematics? Answering this question is never easy as it can be subjective at times. But if we were to suggest top 5…
WP2: A math problem meant for primary school kids
Recently, a friend of mine asked for my help to solve and explain a math problem as she’s required to teach it to primary school kids. I was like, “Sure…