Applied mathematics

Jean Reyes Period 5 12-13-16 Mayan’s Most Remarkable Achievement The Mayans have accomplished many remarkable things like, their Mayan calendar, trade network map, and building cities, Even though those are remarkable, I think that their number system was the most remarkable thing that they have. The next remarkable thing that the Mayans did was their trade network map. The Mayans really had no transportation to get to where they wanted to be, and they had to carry everything themselves…

teach math, would that make a difference in them wanting to learn? I think that if students were engaged and knew that this applied to their everyday lives,…

The chapter “Thinking Scientifically,” from Natalie Angier's book, The Canon, analyzes the advantages of the application of scientific processes in daily life. This is first done through a description of science as a dynamic state of mind, rather than a list of facts to be memorized and regurgitated. In what amounts to a minor attack on the way science is regularly taught, Angier quotes David Stevenson, saying “Many teachers who don't have a deep appreciation of science present it as a set of…

When most people think about what it takes to fight crime, not a lot of them think about the math that actually goes into it. This paper outlines and gives examples of how math is used every day in police work. When asking students what they think about math many will say that it’s boring, or that they will never use it in life. Math may seem very different from the unpredictable and highly relevant business of fighting crime, but in fact math is very relevant to determining the truth of what…

When people see the result of universal mathematics olympiad which is a test for students aged 14 through 20, Japan always gets a high score and America doesn’t. The latest survey done by PISA shows that too (Programme for International Student Assessment). Students from asian countries including…

Many of us are familiar with the term “Math Anxiety” because we often hear it among students that fear the subject Mathematics. The formal definition of math anxiety as defined by Tobias (1993) is a feeling of nervousness or worriedness that creates tension, therefore preventing someone, usually a student in a college-community setting, to manipulate numbers and solve mathematical problems without panic, paralysis, and mental disorganization. Math anxiety is acknowledged by psychologists around…

and was written up in Time magazine (Smith). Escher received world-wide recognition and reputation. Among his greatest admires were mathematical who recognized in his work principles (Smith). The remarkable part was that Escher received no formal mathematics education beyond secondary school. Escher work included two broad areas: the geometry od space, and the logic of space. Escher used various, of what one may call techniques within these broad areas. For instance, tessellations, polyhedra,…

One of the first rules that is taught when learning Calculus is L’Hospital’s rule. The rule provides an easy technique to solve for a limit that has the indeterminate form 0/0. To get past this roadblock, L’Hospital’s rule allows for the individual differentiation of the numerator and denominator, and taking the limit of the result. If after the first application of the rule the limit once again produces the indeterminate form, it is possible to apply L’Hospital’s rule again. There is mystery…

piloting the use of technology in the classroom to increase student achievement for many years. Stanic and Kilpatrick (2004) state “for mathematics curriculum reform, two historical moments stand out- the first at the turn of the century when a curriculum of unified and applied mathematics was the focus, the other coming during the 1950s and 1960s when modern mathematics was the core of reform efforts” (p. 12). The current root of reform involves technology and the way it can assist, enhance…

Christine Tinsley: Being a Teacher Outside of the Classroom When I was asked what I wanted to be when I grew up, I would always say that I wanted to be a teacher. My grade school instructors had a lasting impression on me. There has been a history of teaching in my family, it kind of runs in my blood. My teachers and family made a significant impact on my life and my decision to be a teacher. I would not have become the person I am today without them. I want to be able to do that or be that for…