The 8 Category Rooms in the Stacks are:
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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.Class or Laboratory Room The
WorkBooks in this room can accompany and illustrate classroom
discussion. They may also be the basis for laboratory exercises.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.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.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.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!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. 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.
And you may
look for WorkBooks in our 64 Subject Rooms (with cross indexing)
according to the topics they deal with. The Subject Rooms are:
The
WorkBooks in each of these rooms are further ordered according to grade,
and level of experience. The covers of these
WorkBook covers give a clue about the level of experience the author had
in mind for her reader. They are categorized this way:  |
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Elementary |
High
School
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Beginning
College
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Intermediate
College
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Advanced
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When
you visit the title you are interested in, you may now easily browse to
"nearby" WorkBooks according to Purpose, Subject, or Level.
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