Math Made Visual: Creating Images for Understanding Mathematics (Classroom Resource Materials) - Hardcover

Alsina, Claudi ; Nelsen, Roger B.

9780883857465: Math Made Visual: Creating Images for Understanding Mathematics (Classroom Resource Materials)

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ISBN 10: 0883857464 ISBN 13: 9780883857465

Publisher: The Mathematical Association of America, 2006

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A book describing how visualization techniques can be used in understanding and teaching mathematics.

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The object of this book is to show how visualization techniques may be employed to produce pictures that have interest for the creation, communication and teaching of mathematics. The authors describe methods to visualize mathematical ideas, with applications to concrete cases, and practical approaches for making visualizations in the classroom.

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The object of this book is to show how visualization techniques may be employed to produce pictures that have interest for the creation, communication and teaching of mathematics. Mathematical drawings related to proofs have been produced since antiquity in China, Arabia, Greece and India but only in the last thirty years has there been a growing interest in so-called proofs without words. In this book the authors show that behind most of the pictures proving mathematical relations are some well-understood methods. The first part of the book consists of twenty short chapters, each one describing a method to visualize some mathematical idea (a proof, a concept, an operation,...) and several applications to concrete cases. Following this the book examines general pedagogical considerations concerning the development of visual thinking, practical approaches for making visualizations in the classroom and a discussion of the role that hands-on material plays in this process.

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Publisher: The Mathematical Association of America
Publication date: 2006
Language: English
ISBN 10: 0883857464
ISBN 13: 9780883857465
Binding: Hardcover
Number of pages: 190

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Math Made Visual: Creating Images for Understanding Mathematics (Classroom Resource Material)

Roger Nelsen; Claudi Alsina

Published by The Mathematical Association of America, Washington, D.C., 2006

ISBN 10: 0883857464 ISBN 13: 9780883857465

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Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Ex-library with the usual library markings (if not for the library markings this copy would be graded in fine condition); overall a nice used copy! Full-color pictorial boards with black and white lettering. 173 historical and informative pages nicely enhanced by black and white photographs and illustrations! "The object of this book is to show how visualization techniques may be employed to produce pictures that have interest for the creation, communication and teaching of mathematics. Mathematical drawings related to proofs have been produced since antiquity in China, Arabia, Greece and India but only in the last thirty years has there been a growing interest in so-called 'proofs without words.' In this book the authors show that behind most of the pictures 'proving' mathematical relations are some well-understood methods. The first part of the book consists of twenty short chapters, each one describing a method to visualize some mathematical idea (a proof, a concept, an operation,.) and several applications to concrete cases. Following this the book examines general pedagogical considerations concerning the development of visual thinking, practical approaches for making visualizations in the classroom and a discussion of the role that hands-on material plays in this process.". Seller Inventory # 052150

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