The blunt pencil by Tamarin Norwood

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Sharpening the pencil by Phil Sawdon

“…The text is titled 'Hector can you see me?'…”
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The Scaur Pencil by Phil Sawdon

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Drawing attention: Ways of knowing derived in the movement of the pencil by Tamarin Norwood

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Quadratic operator pencils associated with the conservative Camassa-Holm flow by Jonathan Eckhardt, Aleksey Kostenko

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Gel'fand inverse problem for a quadratic operator pencil by Y.V. Kurylev, M. Lassas

“…We assume that the Gel'fand data on the boundary is given; i.e., we know the boundary partial derivative M and the boundary values of the fundamental solution of A(lambda), namely, R-lambda(x, y), x, y is an element of partial derivative M, lambda is an element of C. …”
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Applications of Nijenhuis geometry II: maximal pencils of multihamiltonian structures of hydrodynamic type by Alexey Bolsinov, Andrey Yu Konyaev, Vladimir S Matveev

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Applications of Nijenhuis geometry II: maximal pencils of multihamiltonian structures of hydrodynamic type by Alexey Bolsinov, Andrey Konyaev, Vladimir Matveev

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Madame Pipe and the curious crayon: a fantastical incident in a pencil’s life by Phil Sawdon

“…Madame Pipe and the curious crayon: a fantastical incident in a pencil’s life…”
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Applications of Nijenhuis geometry III: Frobenius pencils and compatible non-homogeneous Poisson structures by Alexey Bolsinov, Andrey Konyaev, Vladimir Matveev

“…We give an algebraic interpretation of this problem in terms of Frobenius algebras and reduce it to classification of Frobenius pencils, i.e., linear families of Frobenius algebras. …”
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Norms and validation of the online and paper-and-pencil versions of the Abbreviated Math Anxiety Scale (AMAS) for Polish adolescents and adults by Krzysztof Cipora, Klaus Willmes, Adrianna Szwarc, Hans-Christoph Nuerk

“…Results indicate that psychometric properties of the AMAS do not differ between online and paper-and-pencil administration. …”
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On a class of integrable systems of Monge-Ampere type by B. Doubrov, Evgeny Ferapontov, B. Kruglikov, Vladimir Novikov

“…We investigate a class of multi-dimensional two-component systems of Monge-Ampere type that can be viewed as generalisations of heavenly-type equations appearing in self-dual Ricci-flat geometry. …”
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Singularities of bihamiltonian systems and the multidimensional rigid body by Anton Izosimov

“…Two Poisson brackets are called compatible if any linear combination of these brackets is a Poisson bracket again. The set of non-zero linear combinations of two compatible Poisson brackets is called a Poisson pencil. …”
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Algebraic aspects of compatible poisson structures by Pumei Zhang

“…Brief statements of several open problems related to our main results are also mentioned in this part. In Chapter two, we applied the so-called Jordan–Kronecker decomposition theorem to study algebraic properties of the pencil P generated by two constant compatible Poisson structures on a vector space. …”
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Singularities of bi-Hamiltonian systems by Alexey Bolsinov, Anton Izosimov

“…As the main tool, we introduce the notion of linearization of a Poisson pencil. …”
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A semi-automatic computer-aided assessment framework for primary mathematics by Adewale O. Adesina

“…Results from studies carried out with students showed that the MuTAT prototype tool was usable, and performance scores on it were comparable to those obtained when paper-and-pencil was used. …”
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Eckardt loci on hypersurfaces by Izzet Coskun, Artie Prendergast

“…We also determine the number of hypersurfaces in a general pencil in P n, with n = `q+1 2 ´ , that contain a point where the second fundamental form has rank n − 1 − q. …”
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An investigation of the response time for maths items in a computer adaptive test by Chris Wheadon, Qingping He

“…This study investigates the response time for maths items in a computer adaptive test designed as a baseline assessment for pupils aged from 11 to 18 in the UK. …”
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The introduction of practical craft skills into the Scottish technology curriculum: a new beginning or the beginning of the end? A reply to my critics by John R. Dakers

“…I am weary of doing and dating The day with the thing to be done, This painful self translating To a language not of my own Give me to fashion a thing: Give me to shape and to mould; I have found out the song I can sing, I am happy, delivered, and bold. …”
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Bi-Hamiltonian structures and singularities of integrable systems by Alexey Bolsinov, A.A. Oshemkov

“…We study the structure of the singular set K where the differentials df1, . . . , dfs become linearly dependent and show that in the case of bi-Hamiltonian systems this structure is closely related to the properties of the corresponding pencil of compatible Poisson brackets. …”
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The desired qualities of customer contact employees in complaint handling encounters by Thorsten Gruber, Isabelle Szmigin, Roediger Voss

“…An empirical study using the means-end approach and the paper-and-pencil version of the laddering technique provides a deeper understanding of attributes of effective customer contact employees and reveals the underlying benefits that complainants look for. …”
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Hamiltonian operators of Dubrovin-Novikov type in 2D by Evgeny Ferapontov, Paolo Lorenzoni, Andrea Savoldi

“…This allowed us to obtain a complete classification of n-component operators with n≤4 (for n = 1; 2 this was done before). …”
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Probing expert anticipation with the temporal occlusion paradigm: experimental investigations of some methodological issues by Damian Farrow, Bruce Abernethy, Robin Jackson

“…Skilled and novice tennis players either made pencil-and-paper predictions of service direction (Experiment 1) or attempted to hit return strokes (Experiment 2) to tennis serves while their vision was temporally occluded in either a traditional progressive mode (where more information was revealed in each subsequent occlusion condition) or a moving window mode (where the visual display was only available for a fixed duration with this window shifted to different phases of the service action). …”
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Equivalence transformations in linear systems theory by Paul Fretwell

“…The new equivalence is termed Fundamental Equivalence (FE) and CSE is shown to be a matrix characterisation of it. …”
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Game-Based Training to Promote Arithmetic Fluency by Timothy Jay, Jake Habgood, Martyn Mees, Paul Howard-Jones

“…Children played the game in their classrooms for 20 min a day for 2 weeks. Comparisons between pre- and post-tests showed that the game playing group outperformed controls with a medium to large effect size (>0.6). …”
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The influence of the basic electronic calculator on the teaching and learning of mathematics in the 11-16 age range by Paul G. Edmonds

“…Chapter 1 investigates the contribution the basic calculator makes as a calculating aid which should cause the teacher to reassess the place of the standard pencil and paper algorithms in the curriculum. …”
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Hyperdrawing [IN: Hyperdrawing: beyond the lines of contemporary art] by Russell Marshall, Phil Sawdon

“…Practitioners of hyperreal works, 2d 3d 4d pieces and installations that push beyond photorealism all find their place within this new conception of hyperdrawing as techné, a productive space no longer limited by spatial boundaries. …”
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A study of keying skills and various alphanumeric keyboards by Janet Mary Martin

“…For example, as long ago as 63 BC Marcus Tullius Tiro invented a system of shorthand in order to ensure he had a complete record of Cicero's orations. …”
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The effect of a computer-based cartooning tool on children’s cartoons and written stories by Mark Madden, Paul Chung, Christian Dawson

“…This paper reports a study assessing a new computer tool for cartoon storytelling, created by the authors for a target audience in the upper half of the English and Welsh Key Stage 2 (Years 5 and 6, covering ages 9 to 11 years). …”
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Touch arithmetic: a process-based computer-aided assessment approach for capture of problem solving steps in the context of elementary mathematics by Adewale Adesina, Roger Stone, Firat Batmaz, Ian Jones

“…The tool was evaluated in an observational study among 8 and 9 year old primary school children (N=39). …”
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Open-ended course evaluations: a response rate problem? by Jenny A. Darby

“…These combine structured and open ended formats. Pencil and paper forms have a long history of use by trainers in business and commerce and more recently in education. …”
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An investigation of social and other factors which influence evaluations of educational courses by Jenny A. Darby

“…A series of ten studies investigated evaluations of a wide range of courses, some taught by the researcher. …”
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Spatial neglect in the digital age: Influence of presentation format on patients' test behavior by Hannah Rosenzopf, Christoph Sperber, Franz Wortha, Daniel Wiesen, Annika Muth, Elise Klein, Korbinian Moeller, Hans-Otto Karnath

“…The investigated additional variables have the potential to aid in neglect diagnosis, in particular when the CoC cannot be validly assessed (e.g., when the test is not performed to completion).…”
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Math4Speed - a freely available measure of arithmetic fluency by Hannah D Loenneker, Krzysztof Cipora, Christina Artemenko, Mojtaba Soltanlou, Elien Bellon, Bert De Smedt, Javier García-Orza, Vaitsa Giantouli, Ismael Gutiérrez-Cordero, Katarzyna Lipowska, Jean-Philippe van Dijck, Xinru Yao, Hans-Christoph Nuerk, Julia F Huber

“…Construct validity was reflected in the largest associations between inverse operations (e.g., multiplication and division). Convergent and divergent validity were reflected in higher associations of the M4S with other arithmetic measures than with a spelling test. …”
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Construct validity and dimensionality of the measure of criminal social identity using data drawn from American, Pakistani, and Polish inmates by Nicole Sherretts, Dominic Willmott

“…Design/methodology/approach:  Adopting a cross-sectional survey design, the opportunistic sample consisted of offenders incarcerated in three different countries; 351 inmates from Poland, 501 from the USA, and 319 from Pakistan (combined data set n=1,171), with inmates completing anonymous, self-administered, paper-and-pencil questionnaires. …”
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Item selection and application in Higher Education by David O'Hare, A. Boyle, Dougal Hutchison, Anne Patterson

“…We argue that the use of complex item formats such as those available in TRIADs could enhance validity and produce assessments with features not present in pencil and paper tests (cf. …”
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Pathways to depression from childhood and adulthood attachment by Wendy Nicholls

“…Intemet Mediated data collection and the "paper and pencil" method were both used there were 244 (200 females and 44 males) participants at time one, of which 70 (55 females and 15 males) returned at time two. …”
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Process and product development for a novel automotive coating by Herrick Yu

“…After a detailed material screening to develop a dual-cure formulation to achieve high scratch resistance (2H pencil hardness), 3D formability, and UV-resistant nanocomposite hard-coats, a new formulation has been developed. …”
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Integrable four-component systems of conservation laws and linear congruences in ${\mathbb P}^5$ by Evgeny Ferapontov, S.I. Agafonov

“…We propose a differential-geometric classification of the fourcomponent hyperbolic systems of conservation laws which satisfy the following properties: (a) they do not possess Riemann invariants; (b) they are linearly degenerate; (c) their rarefaction curves are rectilinear; (d) the cross-ratio of the four characteristic speeds is harmonic. …”
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