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Manya Raman Sundström studies the teaching and learning of mathematics. She will be blogging from 25 February to 10 March.

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Umeå Center for Advanced Studies?

Some time in December, I took my daily walk to work and marveled at the environment I found myself in.  Do you remember the magnificent winter weather we had just around Christmas, in which snowflakes...

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Math Challenge #1

I guess it is the math teacher in me, but I can’t blog for two weeks without asking people to think about a math question or two.  I learned this one from my 11th grade math teacher.  It isn’t too...

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Math Challenge #2

Ok, here is a harder one. I was planning to post this next week, but with many people off for sportlov, I thought maybe it was good to post it now, so you have a nice problem in your head while waiting...

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To test or not to test: Is that the question?

Discussions of mathematics education in many countries seem to often center around international test results.  For instance in Sweden, Anders Borg and Tomas Tobé refer to Sweden’s mediocre showings on...

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Ethnic Food Fantasies

Now that Corona has filed for bankrupcy, and we spread out to the remaining restaurants, there is plenty of time while waiting in a long line at Universum to ponder the available eating venues, and...

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Solutions and thanks

This post marks the end of my two-week blog, and time to reveal solutions to the two math challenges. I must say these math challenges were the highlight of this assignment—it was very fun to read...

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