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FALL SEMESTER 2004

EDUC 211-3

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MATHEMATICAL EXPERIENCES I: NUMBERS AND

BEYOND

Office: EDB 8661?

Phone: (604) 291-3662

Wednesday and Friday 9:30-11:20

AQ4120

PREREQUISITE:

None. Students who have taken, have received transfer credit for or are currently

taking MATH 151,

154

or

157

man not take EDUC 211 for credit without permission from the

instructor.

COURSE DESCRIPTION

This course explores a variety of mathematical topics in order to increase the mathematical literacy of

Liberal Arts students in general, and to increase their capabilities for quantitative reasoning and

deductive argumentation in particular. Our focus is on the issues of aesthetics and utility of mathematical

experience, emphasizing the human experience in learning and doing mathematics.

Though the course content comes from mathematics, the approach is a pedagogical one, which draws on

the knowledge and practices from education rather than applying the lecture/tutorial format most

commonly seen in undergraduate mathematics courses. Students will engage in problem solving,

investigate conjectures, and develop connections among mathematical topics.

The mathematical content chosen for these courses is flexible and in other settings may be considered as

"enrichment". However, in-depth exploration of these topics provides an engaging opportunity to revisit

and strengthen more basic concepts that lie at the heart of numeracy. Topics include:

• Fibonacci Numbers and Patterns of Nature

• Pascal's Triangle

• Focus on Integers: Divisibility, casting out nines, prime numbers as building blocks

• Modular (clock) arithmetic

• Beyond integers: rational and irrational

• Exploring the infinite

• Mathematics of chance - topics in probability

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Navigating through data - topics in statistics

Course requirements:

Active participation

Weekly homework

. Midterm exam

Problem solving journal

. Collaborative project

. Final exam

Text:

Burger, E. B. and Starbird, M. (2000). The Heart of Mathematics. Key College Publishing ISBN:

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