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I might be teaching a class next year simply called "problem solving." The idea of the class is to survey a several different general topics with a goal of teaching students how to mathematically and formally write up their ideas. Basically get students out of the Calc I habit of writing strings of equations and moving them towards a more prose discussion of their work.
Hopefully this will be the answer to students who complain "no one has ever told us what is a proof."
In the past this class has been taught without a textbook but I would be curious if anyone has any recommendations for a textbook on such a general topic.
Text book questions are not that important as I should have a wealth of questions to choose from. Does anybody remember reading a particular text when suddenly it clicked as to how this whole math language thing worked? I'm still waiting for it to click in my head how this whole english language thing works.
Steven
Hopefully this will be the answer to students who complain "no one has ever told us what is a proof."
In the past this class has been taught without a textbook but I would be curious if anyone has any recommendations for a textbook on such a general topic.
Text book questions are not that important as I should have a wealth of questions to choose from. Does anybody remember reading a particular text when suddenly it clicked as to how this whole math language thing worked? I'm still waiting for it to click in my head how this whole english language thing works.
Steven