Recently added articles from Mathematics and Computer Education:
A COURSE FOR PRE-SERVICE MATHEMATICS TEACHERS THAT FOCUSES ON MATHEMATICS AND THE INTEGRATION OF TECHNOLOGY
Jan 01, 2009; ... INTRODUCTION This article is both a response to a previous article, Ellington [4], and a description of a similar course, also taught in a mathematics department for students preparing to teach secondary school (grades 7-12) mathematics. The two articles offer a look at the type of ...
WHO BUILT THE EGYPTIAN PYRAMIDS? THE USE OF COMPUTATIONAL TOOLS IN SOLVING PROBLEMS TO MAKE STUDENTS THINK ABOUT RANDOMNESS
Jan 01, 2009; ... ABSTRACT When learning probability, one of the greatest difficulties for students is, quite simply, the concept of chance. The reasoning which students use to decide if a sample has been obtained by chance often opposes formal probabilistic ideas. However, the usual teaching model ...
THE MATHEMATICS OF EGYPT, MESOPOTAMIA, CHINA, INDIA, AND ISLAM: A SOURCEBOOK
Jan 01, 2009; ... THE MATHEMATICS OF EGYPT, MESOPOTAMIA, CHINA, INDIA, AND ISLAM: A SOURCEBOOK Edited by Victor J. Katz Princeton University Press, 2007, 685 pp. ISBN-13: 978-0-691-11485-9 The Mathematics of Egypt, Mesopotamia, China, India, and Islam: A Sourcebook should be an essential addition to the ...
FANTASIA MATHEMATICA
Jan 01, 2009; ... FANTASIA MATHEMATICA Edited by Clifton Fadiman Copernicus Books, New York, 1997, 320 pp. (Originally published by Simon and Schuster in 1958) ISBN: 0-387-94931-3 The roots of this book go back to the 1930s, when the editor became intrigued with mathematics and began collecting stories on ...
ARTIFICIAL PSYCHOLOGY: THE QUEST FOR WHAT IT MEANS TO BE HUMAN
Jan 01, 2009; ... ARTIFICIAL PSYCHOLOGY: THE QUEST FOR WHAT IT MEANS TO BE HUMAN by Jay Friedenberg Psychology Press, New York, 2008, 311 pp. ISBN: 978-0-8058-5885-3 Don't worry, you're not reading the wrong journal! This book is not a psychology textbook - at least, not just a psychology textbook ....
THE UNKNOWN UNIVERSE: THE ORIGIN OF THE UNIVERSE, QUANTUM GRAVITY, WORMHOLES, AND OTHER THINGS SCIENCE STILL CAN'T EXPLAIN
Jan 01, 2009; ... THE UNKNOWN UNIVERSE: THE ORIGIN OF THE UNIVERSE, QUANTUM GRAVITY, WORMHOLES, AND OTHER THINGS SCIENCE STILL CAN'T EXPLAIN by Richard Hammond New Page Books, Franklin Lakes, NJ, 2008, 271 pp. ISBN: 978-1-60163-003-2 This engaging, easy-to-read science book, written for the general ...
HYPATIA OF ALEXANDRIA: MATHEMATICIAN AND MARTYR
Jan 01, 2009; ... HYPATIA OF ALEXANDRIA: MATHEMATICIAN AND MARTYR by Michael A. B. Deakin Prometheus Books, NY, 2007, 231 pp. ISBN: 978-1-59102-520-7 "Imagine a time when the world's greatest living mathematician was a woman ... who was simultaneously the world's leading astronomer." Thus begins Hypatia ...
THE PEA AND THE SUN: A MATHEMATICAL PARADOX
Jan 01, 2009; ... THE PEA AND THE SUN: A MATHEMATICAL PARADOX by Leonard M. Wapner A.K.Peters, Ltd., 2005, 218 pp. ISBN: 1-56881-213-2 The Pea and the Sun: A Mathematical Paradox is a popular account of the Banach-Tarski Theorem and its proof. The Banach-Tarski Theorem (published in 1924) states that it ...
HIPPOCAMPUS
Jan 01, 2009; ... HIPPOCAMPUS http://www.hippocampus.org Contact: Monterey Institute for Technology and Education 3 Beach Way, Monterey, California 93940 Phone: (831) 642-9459, Price: Free Website Free interactive study guides on the web are popular with highschool and ...
KEYRECORDER
Jan 01, 2009; ... KEYRECORDER http://www.tech.plym.ac.uk/Research/mamematics_education/index.htm Contact: Centre for Teaching Mathematics, University of Plymouth Drake Circus, Plymouth, Devon, UK PL4 8AA Phone: +44 (0)1752 232772. Price: Free Software Application I recently ...
THE WAY BACK FROM ANYWHERE: EXPLORING THE ROAD COLORING CONJECTURE
Jan 01, 2009; ... Some high school and lower-division college students are capable of appreciating high-level mathematics and also capable of exploring difficult unsolved problems. If the problem can be stated in simple terms and initial explorations can be done immediately, unsolved problems can be fun and ...
PEER TUTORING IN MATHEMATICS FOR UNIVERSITY STUDENTS
Jan 01, 2009; ... ABSTRACT A peer tutoring service has been implemented with volunteer senior students from third year mathematics and statistics classes. This simultaneously bridges the gap in the university budget and helps both the tutors' education as well as their students' education. In this paper ...
THE ELGAMAL CRYPTOSYSTEM ON THE TI-83
Jan 01, 2009; ... INTRODUCTION Cryptography, the science of secret writing, has been integrated into "liberal arts" mathematics courses for non-majors and "honors" courses for students who may or may not be mathematics majors at both Radford University and North Carolina Wesleyan College. In a previous ...
AN EXAMPLE OF PORTFOLIO OPTIMIZATION USING A VARIANT OF FAST SIMULATED ANNEALING
Jan 01, 2009; ... ABSTRACT Simulated annealing (SA) is one of the most widely used optimization techniques. The SA method is essentially a random search that only uses the information obtained in the previous iteration. A simple portfolio optimization problem is solved by implementing this search ...
ADDRESSING STUDENTS' MISCONCEPTIONS ABOUT PROBABILITY DURING THE FIRST YEARS OF COLLEGE
Oct 01, 2008; ... ABSTRACT Teachers of probability often have to deal with their students' misconceptions that may interfere with instruction. Identifying and addressing these non-standard concepts is an important instructional goal that is often overlooked. The present paper is based on a workshop ...
Addendum
Oct 01, 2008; ... Addendum: HILL CIPHERS OVER NEAR-FIELDS (Vol. 41, No. l, pp. 46-54, Winter 2007) by Mark Farag The following key reference was inadvertently omitted ...
THE WABASH COLLEGE MATHEMATICS PROGRAM
Oct 01, 2008; ... Wabash College is a selective, four-year, liberal arts college for men, located in rural Indiana. Approximtely 170 students graduate each year. Twenty years ago, 16% of these graduates were mathematics majors or minors (6% majors, 10% minors). From 1995 to 2003, this number dropped to 9% (3% ...
APPROXIMATING AN ELLIPSE WITH FOUR CIRCULAR ARCS
Oct 01, 2008; ... (ProQuest: ... denotes formula omitted.) 1. INTRODUCTION This material uses only precalculus mathematics and is suitable for courses in geometry, and engineering. Ellipses find wide applications in mathematics, physics, engineering, and drafting, as well as in ...
HIGH-SCHOOL STUDENTS STUDYING FOR A UNIVERSITY DEGREE IN COMPUTER SCIENCE
Oct 01, 2008; ... ABSTRACT The Open University of Israel (OUI) is an accredited distance learning institution that offers university courses to high-school students so they may begin their studies towards a Bachelor's degree in parallel to their high-school studies. Hundreds of high-school students have ...
USING DYNAMIC GEOMETRY SOFTWARE AT A TECHNICAL COLLEGE
Oct 01, 2008; ... ABSTRACT Dynamic geometry software allows new opportunities for teaching geometry by making it possible to create drawings quickly, accurately, and flexibly. At the Univeristy of Debrecen, the full-time engineering students have a weekly two hour seminar and a two hour lecture on ...