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Volume 51 - May 1967

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Class-Room Notes

Research Article

  • Markov Chains And Snakes And Ladders

  • D. E. Daykin, J. E. Jeacocke, D. G. Neal
  • Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    03 November 2016, pp. 313-317

  • Everybody is familiar with the game of “Snakes and Ladders”, but not so many realise that the game constitutes an interesting example of a Markov chain. We feel that a good way of introducing Markov chain theory is by solving the problem, How long does a game of Snakes and Ladders last? Doubtless the reader has found that the last game before sending a child to bed seems to drag on interminably, and we used a computer to determine the actual average number of moves when 2 people play on a typical board.

  • Activities

  • H. B. Griffiths
  • Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    03 November 2016, pp. 135-136

  • Space does not allow much room for “reporting” in The Mathematical Gazette, though that deficiency is greatly offset by the Newsletter. As it happens, however, two very contrasting items arrived while this Number was in the proof stage and so they are included, as typical of much else, to give some information about mathematical activities in general.

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Mathematical Notes

Research Article

  • Maths Today

  • Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    03 November 2016, pp. 136-137

  • This is the most ambitious attempt yet made to help mathematics teachers and pupils through the medium of television. It is designed for all but the least able pupils in the first year of the secondary school (i.e. of about 11 years of age), and will extend for two years. It aims to act as a guide-line for teachers who feel they would like to modernise their mathematics teaching both in content and method.

Correspondence

  • To the Editor of The Mathematical Gazette

  • D. A. Young
  • Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    03 November 2016, p. 245
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