Wednesday 4 September 2019

Discovering Category Theory with primary school children


A few years ago I ran a maths circle for primary school children experimenting with teaching category theory. The meetings were documented in a series of blog posts which were recently published as a series of articles by Mathematics Teaching, the journal of the Association of Teachers of Mathematics (issues 264-268).

 I am posting a copy of the articles (PDF) with the permission of the ATM: 
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