BSc MScSt DipCompSci (UQ) PhD (Bond) Professor Sugden's present research interests at Bond University centre on the use of technology in mathematics education, especially the use of modern spreadsheet programs such as Microsoft's Excel. In 2002, he established the electronic journal Spreadsheets in Education, hosted at Bond. This journal publishes fully peer-reviewed articles plus classroom resources for teachers. In recent years, he has been very active in consulting work and was responsible for the mathematical models presently employed by Jupiter's KENO in Queensland.
Articles
The slumbarumba jumbuck problem, Spreadsheets in education (2011)
The potential for simple linear relationships arising from a computer game to build student modelling...
Spreadsheets and Bulgarian goats, International journal of mathematical education in science and technology (2011)
We consider a problem appearing in an Australian Mathematics Challenge in 2003. This article considers...
The Number Crunch game: A simple vehicle for building algebraic reasoning skills, International journal of mathematical education in science and technology (2011)
A newspaper numbers game based on simple arithmetic relationships is discussed. Its potential to give...
Colour by numbers in Excel 2007: Solving algebraic equations without algebra, Spreadsheets in education (2010)
This is an update of an earlier paper, and is written for Excel 2007. A...
Basic finance made accessible in Excel 2007: "The Big 5, Plus 2" (with David Miller), Spreadsheets in education (2010)
The basic principles and equations are developed for elementary finance, based on the concept of...
Books
Problem solving with Delphi, Problem solving with Delphi (2009)
The purpose of the book is to use Delphi as a vehicle to introduce some...
Computer Mathematics using Pascal, 2nd Edition (with John Simmond), Information Technology papers (1988)
This book introduces elementary programming in Pascal as a tool to solve introductory problems in...
Book Chapters
Discrete phase-locked loop systems and spreadsheets (with Sergei Abrramovich, Elena Kudryashova, and Gennady A. Leonov), Models and applications of chaos theory in modern science (2011)
This paper demonstrates the use of a spreadsheet in exploring non-linear difference equations that describe...
Spreadsheet conditional formatting illuminates investigations into modular arithmetic (with David Miller), Applications of spreadsheets in education: The amazing power of a simple tool (2011)
Modular arithmetic has often been regarded as something of a mathematical curiosity, at least by...
Computing sequences and series by recurrence, Information Technology papers (2009)
Extract:
Many commonly-used mathematical functions may be computed via carefully-constructed recurrence formulas. Sequences are...
Other
A Class of Direct Search Methods for Nonlinear Integer Programming, Theses (1992)
This work extends recent research in the development of a number of direct search methods...