Rediscovering Mathematics
You Do the Math
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- Author: Shai Simonson, Stonehill College, Massachusetts
- Date Published: May 2016
- availability: Available in limited markets only
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780883857809
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Rediscovering Mathematics is a guide to more effective mathematical education, offering topics and puzzles that can inspire a renewed interest in mathematics among students and enthusiasts. Suitable for anyone wanting to expand their view of mathematics, the book's topics are linked by the theme of mathematical learning through investigation, challenge, and discovery. This book can be used as a text for training mathematics teachers at all levels, and is recommended for anyone interested in mathematics and how mathematics should be taught. Containing dozens of illustrations, tables, and exercises, the book focuses on problem solving and understanding, subsuming learning by memorization. Topics range from number theory and applications, to secure Internet communication, to probability in sports and gambling.
Read more- Includes nearly 200 end-of-chapter exercises
- Frequent challenges with hints and solutions are offered throughout
- The focus on learning through problem-solving and understanding is enhanced by linking mathematical topics to everyday-life scenarios
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- Date Published: May 2016
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780883857809
- length: 211 pages
- dimensions: 253 x 178 x 12 mm
- weight: 0.44kg
- contains: 68 b/w illus. 15 colour illus. 7 tables
- availability: Available in limited markets only
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
A guide for the reader
Introduction - how to read mathematics
1. Mathematical discovery in the classroom
2. Don't reach for your calculator (yet)
3. Have another piece of pie, Zeno?
4. Thinking like a mathematician - lessons from a medieval Rabbi
5. What's mathematics good for?
6. Three averages
7. Algorithms - the unexpected role of pure mathematics
8. Pythagoras' Theorem and math by pictures
9. Memorizing versus understanding
10. Games and gambling
11. Soccer balls and counting tricks
12. Pizza Pi and area
13. Back to the classroom
Resources for rediscovering mathematics
Further reading
Index.
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