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The title of this book, Learning Discrete Mathematics with ISETL
raises two issues. We have chosen the word "Learning" rather than
"Teaching" because we think that what the student does in order to
learn is much more important than what the professor does in order
to teach. Academia is filled with outstanding mathematics teachers:
excellent expositors, good organizers, hard workers, men and women
who have a deep understanding of Mathematics and its applications.
Yet, when it comes to ideas in Mathe matics, our students do not
seem to be learning. It may be that something more is needed and we
have tried to construct a book that might provide a different kind
of help to the student in acquiring some of the fundamental
concepts of Mathematics. In a number of ways we have made choices
that seem to us to be the best for learning, even if they don't
always completely agree with standard teaching practice. A second
issue concerns students' writing programs. ISETL is a pro gramming
language and by the phrase "with ISETL" in the title, we mean that
our intention is for students to write code, think about what they
have written, predict its results, and run their programs to check
their predic tions. There is a trade-off here. On the one hand, it
can be argued that students' active involvement with constructing
Mathematics for themselves and solving problems is essential to
understanding concepts."
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