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Quasilogarithms: an approach to the logarithm function

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 August 2016

Neil Bibby
Neil Bibby*
Affiliation:
Centre for Educational Studies, King’s College London (KQC), Chelsea Campus, 552 King’s Road, London SW10 0UA
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The decision by the GCE boards to ensure that all A-level Mathematics syllabuses contain a common core of pure mathematics is currently in course of implementation and near completion. In the wake of the syllabus changes a crop of new and revised A-level text books has appeared: many of these have a very familiar style and content, and have on the whole avoided any serious reappraisal of their subject matter. In particular most fail to exploit the calculator or microcomputer to any significant extent in the development of new concepts.

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Research Article
Information
The Mathematical Gazette , Volume 70 , Issue 452 , June 1986 , pp. 114 - 123
Copyright
Copyright © Mathematical Association 1986

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