Sums of Consecutive Positive Integers
| Autor: | Robert W. Prielipp, Norbert J. Kuenzi |
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| Rok vydání: | 1975 |
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| Zdroj: | The Mathematics Teacher. 68:18-21 |
| ISSN: | 2330-0582 0025-5769 |
| DOI: | 10.5951/mt.68.1.0018 |
| Popis: | WHAT is mathematics? For many secondary school pupils, it is solving equa tions, evaluating determinants, using syn thetic division, or finding a derivative. All too frequently what the student does is more closely related to bookkeeping than to real mathematics. Perhaps this is why we have so many prospective mathe matics majors at the university level who breeze through calculus but who never seem able to cope with "abstract mathe matics." Their manipulative skills are adequate, but their ability to think has never been developed. To the mathematician, a substantial part of mathematics is creating more mathematics. It is making conjectures, constructing counterexamples, and writing proofs. It is exploration and discovery of the highest order, complete with exhilara tion and frustration. |
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