Learning and Doing Mathematics: Using Polya's Problem-solving Methods for Learning and Teaching

John Mason

ISBN 10: 1858530490 / ISBN 13: 9781858530499

Editore: QED Books, 1996

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• Titolo: Learning and Doing Mathematics: Using Polya's Problem-solving Methods for Learning and Teaching
• Editore: QED Books
• Data di pubblicazione: 1996
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 1858530490
• ISBN 13: 9781858530499
• Rilegatura: Paperback
• Edizione: seconda edizione
• Condizione: Used; Very Good

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Learning and Doing is for anyone keen to develop learning skills or to enhance their problem-solving powers. It will help you develop your own strategies by recognising blockages and then using the techniques of generalizing and specializing to identify routes to a solution.Examples are varied. Many are mathematical in flavour, but they are accessible to anyone with an interest in the subject and the methods proposed apply across the curriculum and indeed to everyday situations in modern life. Developed at the Open University, all the material is tried and tested.Professor Mason’s style is relaxed and colloquial – accessible to all, whether a teacher wanting to use it for examples and fresh ways to inspire, or a parent or student wanted to boost their learning and broaden their mathematical thinking. Contents:SpecializingGeneralizingSpecializing and Generalizing TogetherConvincing Yourself and OthersWhen is an Argument Valid?Further Food for ThoughtFive Interludes are presented between the chapter – to provoke practical mathematical thinking, and have some fun.

Informazioni sull?autore

John Mason, formerly Professor of Mathematical Education at the Open University and at Oxford University