Teaching and Learning Discrete Mathematics Worldwide: Curriculum and Research - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 3319703099 ISBN 13: 9783319703091

Verlag: Springer, 2017

Inhaltsangabe

Part I: The Landscape of Discrete Mathematics in the School Curriculum

Discrete Mathematics is Essential Mathematics in a 21^st Century School Curriculum (and introduction to this volume)

Eric W. Hart and W. Gary Martin

The Absence of Discrete Mathematics from Primary and Secondary Education in the United States ... and Why that is Counterproductive

Joseph G. Rosenstein

Discrete Mathematics in Lower School Grades? Situation and Possibilities in Italy

Aaron Gaio and Benedetto Di Paola

Discrete Mathematics and the Affective Dimension of Mathematical Learning and Engagement

Gerald A. Goldin

Part II: Combinatorics and Combinatorial Reasoning

Combinatorial Reasoning to Solve Problems

Tom Coenen, Frits Hof, and Nellie Verhoef

Children's Combinatorial Counting Strategies and their Relationship to Mathematical Counting Principles

Karina Höveler

Reinforcing Mathematical Concepts and Developing Mathematical Practices through Combinatorial Activity

Elise Lockwood and Zack Reed

Complex Mathematics Education in the 21st Century: Improving Combinatorial Thinking based on Tamás Varga's Heritage and Recent Research Results

Ödön Vancsó, Eliza Beregszászi, Hana Burian, György Emese, Eleonóra Stettner, and Judit Szitányi

Part III: Recursion and Recursive Thinking

Discrete Dynamical Systems: A Pathway for Students to Become Enchanted with Mathematics

Robert L. Devaney

How Recursion Supports Algebraic Understanding

James Sandefur, Kay Somers, and Rosalie Dance

Part IV: Networks and Graphs

Food Webs, Competition Graphs, and a 60-year-old Unsolved Problem

Margaret (Midge) Cozzens and Pratik Koirala

Graph Theory in Primary, Middle and High School

Daniela Ferrarello and Maria Flavia Mammana

Part V: Fair Decision-Making and Game Theory

Fairness

Sol Garfunkel

Mathematical Research in the Classroom via Combinatorial Games

Ximena Colipan

Machines designed to play Nim games (1940-1970): A possible (re)use in the modern French mathematics curriculum?

Lisa Rougetet

Part VI: Logic and Proof

Mathematics and Logic: Their Relationship in the Teaching of Mathematics

Vladimir I. Igoshin

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Springer
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2017
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 3319703099
• ISBN 13: 9783319703091
• Einband: Paperback
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