I’ve been thinking about brass instruments quite a bit recently. I took my daughter to a workshop by Travelling by Tuba, and it got me thinking about the lengths of various brass instruments compared with their length. A French Horn, for example, is well over 3 meters of pipe nicely wound up. There’s a clear … Read more
You might have noticed that the SQA have announced updates to the detailed marking instructions for the Higher Applications of Maths Project. Here I’ll point out what has changed and give some thoughts. The main thrust of the change is make things clearer for students who are working with categorical data, and I think the … Read more
I’ve finally got around to publishing a course plan for Higher Apps next year (which can be downloaded here). I want to share some rationale behind the order of the topics. Last year, I taught the course in the following order: Statistics, Finance, Planning and then Modelling. The rationale for that was fairly simple- I … Read more