| Mathematics
Home Study/Home Schooling Room |
 The
WorkBooks in this room are designed for individual, private study.
Students go at their own pace. In particular, this material is
suited to HomeSchooling and Independent Study.
These
WorkBooks are designed to allow students to ask their own questions.
We feel that their questions are more important than our answers.
And we understand that genuine learning requires time, effort,
and reflection, usually outside of the "prepared" environment
of a classroom, or even of a course.
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| Class
or Laboratory Room |
The
WorkBooks in this room can accompany and illustrate classroom
discussion. They may also be the basis for laboratory exercises.
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| Visualization
and Discovery Room |
The
etymology of the word 'theorem' is 'spectacle,' hence the object
of a vision. Computer environments are excellent heuristic tools
in the sense that they may stimulate the reader to 'see' the meaning
of a mathematical construction, technique, or process. The WorkBooks
in this Room were chosen mainly because their authors used this
strategy. They can help learners visualize certain new
ideas, and then invite them to ask questions and explore
the topic in an independent way.
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| Course
Collections Room |
These
WorkBooks form coherent and sequential explorations that are organized
around courses. In some cases, the courses have been organized
around the sequence of WorkBooks. You may download the entire
sequence at once, or select them one at a time.
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| Math
and Computers Room |
This
Room pays homage to the emerging synergy between computer environments
and mathematics. The WorkBooks here are independent explorations
of mathematical topics for which interesting computer algorithms
are employed to develop them. We explore this synergy from the
other side (the contributions of mathematics to computing) in
the discussion of 3-Dimensional graphics and of Lava in the MATH
Cafe.
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| Game
Room |
This
category contains a number of Mathwright Books that may have no
strong pedagogical justification. Sometimes, they illustrate
a useful point of relevance for course-related study, but they
are geneally simply gratuitous exercises that aim to teach through
play. So there is no excuse for this room. Just go there and
have fun!
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| Tools
Room |
The
WorkBooks in this room provide tools for specific types of calculation
(e.g. Row reduction of matrices). The authors of these WorkBooks
generally assume that the reader has some understanding of what
the tool is for, but they place the tool in a context or a story
that can elicit questions and experiments, and so lead to a deeper
understanding.
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| Young
Learners' Room |
The
books in this category are for Primary School students (Grades
3-8) Many of these books were designed and built by college students
(Sophomores and Juniors) in a pre-service teaching course. While
these latter books may not be as polished as the general holdings,
they are included because they illustrate the powerful ideas of
these young authors on issues of early teaching and learning.
Notice also that the books often take advantage of multimedia
to capture the attention of their young readers.
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