{"id":2,"date":"2004-11-21T12:50:30","date_gmt":"2004-11-21T12:50:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/?p=2"},"modified":"2019-09-14T08:11:01","modified_gmt":"2019-09-14T00:11:01","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/contact\/about-2","title":{"rendered":"About&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/images\/2004\/11\/murray-bourne2.jpg\" alt=\"murray bourne\" title=\"murray bourne\" width=\"128\" height=\"170\" class=\"imgLeft\" \/>This site is owned and maintained by <a href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/112349609860255705013\/posts?rel=author\" rel=\"me\">Murray Bourne<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I was a teacher in secondary schools in Australia for some years. I was in Broken Hill (outback Australia) and then Grafton (northern NSW).<\/p>\n<p>I then moved to Japan where I taught mathematics (in English) for 4 years in an interesting program that prepared Japanese students for college courses in the USA. The students would spend one year improving their English, followed by one year doing a typical freshman program, then they would go to small mid-West colleges in the US. I also taught English while in Japan.<\/p>\n<p>On returning to Australia, I taught in TAFE (Technical and Further Education), Bond University and Griffith University on the Gold Coast, south of Brisbane. <\/p>\n<p>I then moved to Singapore where I taught engineering mathematics in a polytechnic. Subsequently, I did staff training in the same institution.<\/p>\n<p>I'm now a freelance trainer and consultant, still based in Singapore.<\/p>\n<p>My main site is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/\">Interactive Mathematics<\/a>, which is a series of math tutorials enhanced by interactive javascript- and SVG-based applets. There are hundreds of testimonials about IntMath from happy readers on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/help\/site-info.php\">this page<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>To avoid spammers, I hesitate to put my real e-mail address here :-(. If you want to contact me, leave a comment on this post.  \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p class=\"alt\">See the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/contact\/about-2#comments\" id=\"comms\">69 Comments<\/a> below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>And who's the mysterious \"Zac\"? All is revealed...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":""},"categories":[100],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12611,"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2\/revisions\/12611"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}