Member of the e-learning unit in Newcastle University's School of Mathematics and Statistics.

Lead developer of Numbas.

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Christian Lawson-Perfect commented on Applied y-intercepts: Investing in boats 8 years, 5 months ago

I don't like how the graph works - why drag a slider and not the line itself?

The label on the slider says "p = ..." - what's p?

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Christian Lawson-Perfect on Factorising Quadratic Equations with $x^2$ Coefficients of 1 8 years, 5 months ago

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Christian Lawson-Perfect on Factorising Quadratic Equations with $x^2$ Coefficients of 1 8 years, 5 months ago

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I've changed the parts so:

  • part a always has two negative roots
  • part b always has one positive root and one negative
  • part c is the difference of two squares.

I don't think there was any point in the version which had a constant on the RHS.

I've added a marking script to check that the student's answer is factorised, rather than using string restrictions.

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Christian Lawson-Perfect on The gambler's fallacy - probability of getting heads again after repeatedly getting heads 8 years, 5 months ago

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Split from a bigger question.

The advice had confused trials with events.

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Christian Lawson-Perfect on Which coin is more likely to be biased? 8 years, 5 months ago

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Christian Lawson-Perfect on Which coin is more likely to be biased? 8 years, 5 months ago

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Christian Lawson-Perfect on Theoretical Probability vs Experimental Probability 8 years, 5 months ago

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Christian Lawson-Perfect on Theoretical Probability vs Experimental Probability 8 years, 5 months ago

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