HANDS-ON MATHEMATICS

Catalog description

Students take turns learning a topic and then teach that topic to the class. No text is required; the students use web resources and materials supplied by the instructor. Many of the topics have a hands-on component. Some examples are two- and three-dimensional tiling problems, the Towers of Hanoi and other problems with an inductive solution, and ‘magic tricks’ with a basis in algebra, parity or modular arithmetic.