| 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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