Mathematics and Beauty: Aesthetic Approaches to Teaching Children
Nathalie Sinclair makes a compelling case for the inclusion of the aesthetic in the teaching and learning of mathematics, and illuminates how the materials and approaches we use in the mathematics classroom can be enriched for the benefit of all learners.
Paper folding not only simplifies the learning of mathematics it also builds an experiential base necessary for further learning. The exercises in this publication, appropriate at various grade levels, lead students to discover and demonstrate such mathematical relationships as reflections, transformations, and symmetry.
Foundations for the Future in Mathematics EducationThe central question addressed in Foundations for the Future in Mathematics Education is this:
What kind of understandings and abilities should be emphasized to decrease mismatches between the narrow band of mathematical understandings and abilities that are emphasized in mathematics classrooms and tests, and those that are needed for success beyond school in the 21st century? This is an urgent question.
Matroid Applications (Encyclopedia of Mathematics and its Applications)This volume, the third in a sequence that began with The Theory of Matroids (1986) and Combinatorial Geometries (1987), concentrates on the applications of matroid theory to a variety of topics from geometry (rigidity and lattices), combinatorics (graphs, codes, and designs) and operations research (the greedy algorithm).
Higher Mathematics for Engineers and Physicists (Second Edition)
The favorable reception of the First Edition of this volume appears to have sustained the authors' belief in the need of a book on mathematics beyond the calculus, vritten from the point of view of the student of applied science. The chief purpose of the book is to help to bridge the gap which separates many engineers from mathematics by giving them a bird's-eye view of those mathematical topics which are indispensable in the study of the physical sciences.
