Overview
Learning and Doing Mathematics Second Edition John Mason, formerly Professor of Mathematical Education at the Open University Learning and Doing is for anyone keen to develop learning skills or to enhance their problem-solving powers. It will help you develop your own strategies by recognising blockages and then using the techniques of generalizing and specializing to identify routes to a solution. Examples are varied. Many are mathematical in flavour, but they are accessible to anyone with an interest in the subject and the methods proposed apply across the curriculum and indeed to everyday situations in modern life. Developed at the Open University, all the material is tried and tested. Professor Mason's style is relaxed and colloquial - accessible to all, whether a teacher wanting to use it for examples and fresh ways to inspire, or a parent or student wanted to boost their learning and broaden their mathematical thinking. Contents: * Specializing * Generalizing * Specializing and Generalizing Together * Convincing Yourself and Others * When is an Argument Valid? * Further Food for Thought * Five Interludes are presented between the chapter - to provoke practical mathematical thinking, and have some fun. Reviews of the First Edition ""An excellent resource...an impressive, carefully chosen array of examples...I will certainly recommend it."" John Baylis, The Mathematical Gazette ""Fresh, lively and energetic...we should buy [his] books before they are banned."" Ralph Schwarzenberger, Mathematics Teaching
Full Product Details
Author: John Mason
Publisher: QED Books
Imprint: QED Books
Edition: 2nd Revised edition
Dimensions:
Width: 17.80cm
, Height: 0.50cm
, Length: 25.40cm
Weight: 0.190kg
ISBN: 9781858530499
ISBN 10: 1858530490
Pages: 100
Publication Date: 01 October 1999
Audience:
College/higher education
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Professional and scholarly
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Undergraduate
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Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: Out of print, replaced by POD
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Reviews
""An excellent resource...an impressive, carefully chosen array of examples...I will certainly recommend it."" -- John Baylis, The Mathematical Gazette ""Fresh, lively and energetic...we should buy [his] books before they are banned."" -- Ralph Schwarzenberger, Mathematics Teaching
An excellent resource...an impressive, carefully chosen array of examples...I will certainly recommend it. -- John Baylis, The Mathematical Gazette Fresh, lively and energetic...we should buy [his] books before they are banned. -- Ralph Schwarzenberger, Mathematics Teaching
Fresh, lively and energetic...we should buy [his] books before they are banned. -- Ralph Schwarzenberger, Mathematics Teaching An excellent resource...an impressive, carefully chosen array of examples...I will certainly recommend it. -- John Baylis, The Mathematical Gazette
Author Information
John Mason, formerly Professor of Mathematical Education at the Open University and at Oxford University
