| It is much easier to get the right answer than explain why. For students who will go on to advanced mathematics, being able to verbalise your thinking is an invaluable skill. So let’s start now! This units has tasks are designed to be fun, challenging and particularly suited to explaining mathematical thinking in your natural language. |
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Bibliography: A list of the books which have served to inspire tasks within the EUMY Mathematics set.
Acknowledgements: Lynne Kelly, the author, would like to acknowledge the invaluable assistance of her mathematical models who appear in these tasks:
Epsilon-pi and Smidgin Ubiquitous
We call them Epsi and Smidge!