Australian Mathematics Teacher back issues from March 2006:
Angle defect and Descartes' theorem.
Mar 22, 2006; ... We discuss here a delightfully simple theorem of Descartes, which will enable us to determine easily the number of vertices of almost every polyhedron. Angle defect We define the angle defect at a vertex of a polyhedron to be the amount by which the sum of the face ...
Editorial.
Mar 22, 2006; ... Welcome to another (busy) new year! A special welcome also to new readers of AMT. This year we hope to bring you articles that provide much food for thought--both pedagogically and mathematically. Perhaps some articles may provoke some controversy--of the civilised, scholarly kind, of ...
Letter to the Editors.(Letter to the editor)
Mar 22, 2006; ... Dear Editor (AMT) In the interests of accuracy (and in case anyone is setting their students the sums as an exercise) you should note that the twelfth digit of [2.sup.67] - 1 (AMT 61(3) p. 3) is a ...
Paper folding in the middle school classroom and beyond.
Mar 22, 2006; ... Introduction Paper folding can be used in the classroom to introduce the standard results of school geometry, such as the transversal and parallel lines results along with results concerning angles in convex polygons and centres of triangles, for example. Angle bisectors, ...
Diversions.(mathematical recreations)
Mar 22, 2006; ... Prediction is a great skill to have in any walk of life: it can, in fact, save your life at times. While the two investigations I pose for you in this edition may not be that dramatic, they might just increase your appreciation of some important connections between grids and rectangles and ...
Erratum.(Correction notice)
Mar 22, 2006 ... An error appeared in the Diversions solutions in AMT 16(4), page 17. The second paragraph should have read: <Pre>Hopefully you will have seen that n = 4and n = 6 do not yield prime numbers for[2.sup.n] - ...
Enrichment Maths for Secondary School Students.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2006; ... Enrichment Maths for Secondary School Students Anne Joshua 2004, 419 pp., paperback, ISBN 0646431625 Available from the Mathematical Association of NSW (www.mansw.nsw.edu.au) $60.00 ($50.00 for MANSW members) This book is an excellent resource for all teachers of high school ...
Essentials of Mathematics: Introduction to Theory, Proof and Professional Culture.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2006; ... Essentials of Mathematics: Introduction to Theory, Proof and Professional Culture Margie Hale Published by the Mathematical Association of America, Classroom Resource Materials Series 2003, 180pp., hardback, ISBN 0883857294 US $47.50 Each chapter of this interesting book begins ...
Mathematical Olympiad Treasures.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2006; ... Mathematical Olympiad Treasures Titu Andreescu & Bogdan Enescu Published by Birkhauser 2004, 234 pp., paperback, ISBN 0817643052 US $30.00 It was a pleasure to read Mathematical Olympiad Treasures by Titu Andreescu and Bogdan Enescu. This book is the fruit of the prodigious ...
Mathematics for Business Decisions Part 1: Probability and Simulation.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2006; ... Mathematics for Business Decisions Part 1: Probability and Simulation Richard B. Thompson, Christopher G. Lamoureux & Pamela E. Slaten Published by The Mathematical Association of America 2005, 314 pp., paperback, ISBN 0883857421 + CD & student notebook US $66.95 Mathematics for ...
Mathematics as a Constructive Activity: Learners Generating Examples.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2006; ... Mathematics as a Constructive Activity: Learners Generating Examples Anne Watson & John Mason Published by Lawrence Erlbaum Associates 2005, 248 pp., paperback, ISBN 0805843442 $58.95 Using examples to motivate, initiate or illustrate a mathematical concept or object is a ...
Issues concerning the teaching and learning of mathematics and numeracy in Australian schools.
Mar 22, 2006; ... Background For over 30 years I have been involved in the teaching and learning of mathematics and numeracy in Australian schools. I taught mathematics in high schools (Years 8-12) for more than 20 years at different school settings ranging from rural and remote to inner city, ...
Further mathematical patterns.(Discovery)
Mar 22, 2006; ... Mathematics is sometimes said to be about patterns. Here are some examples for your students to investigate. Example 1 Imagine a pattern of coloured counters in a straight line. The pattern continues like this: two red, three blue, two red, three blue ... ...
The 2005 Australian Informatics Competition.
Mar 22, 2006; ... The Australian Informatics Competition is a non-programming competition aimed at identifying students with potential in programming and algorithmic design. It is the first step in identifying students to represent Australia at the International Olympiad in Informatics. ...
A spreadsheet project.(CACTUS)
Mar 22, 2006; ... A spreadsheet project can become hard work for teachers, students, their parents and sometimes others in their community. Here are some suggestions that may make life easier for all. As an example, I have based this article on the traditional project of designing and coding a ...
Using CensusAtSchool data to motivate students.
Mar 22, 2006; ... Imagine being able to engage your students in learning statistics! You would need your students to have access to a large database of real data, preferably about students. It would be even better if your students were part of the database. Ideally, the data would enable your students to ...