Browsing Research Articles (Mathematics and Applied Mathematics) by Author "Wiggins, Harry"

Browsing Research Articles (Mathematics and Applied Mathematics) by Author "Wiggins, Harry"

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  • Perpendicular lines : four proofs of the negative reciprocal relationship 
    Wiggins, Harry (Association for Mathematics Education of South Africa, 2018)
    One of the great joys of mathematics is finding multiple ways of arriving at a solution or proving a result. Some approaches can be messy and longwinded, while others can be elegant and succinct. But the joy lies in arriving ...
  • Sibling curves of cubic polynomials 
    Wiggins, Harry (NISC (Pty) Ltd and Informa UK Limited (trading as the Taylor & Francis Group), 2020)
    Sibling curves are a new way to represent the zeroes of any complex-valued function. Interesting results are already known for the sibling curves of quadratic polynomials. In this article a complete investigation of sibling ...
  • Student enrichment in mathematics : a case study with first year university students 
    Wiggins, Harry; Harding, Ansie; Engelbrecht, Johann (Taylor and Francis, 2017-10)
    This paper presents an enrichment case study to showcase a possible avenue for attending to the needs of academically strong mathematics students. We report on a group of university students who were presented with the ...