[Maths-Education] LOOKING FOR A STUNNING TEXTBOOK

[NG Swee Fong (MME)]

You could try looking at Charles D Miller, Vern E Heeren and E. John Hornsby
Jr's "Mathematical Ideas" published by Addison-Wesley. 
ISBN 0-673-99893-2

Swee Fong Ng
National Institute of Education
Maths and Maths Education Academic Group
1 Nanyang Walk
Singapore 637 616
E-mail: sfng@nie.edu.sg



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> From: Susie Groves [mailto:grovesac@deakin.edu.au]
> Sent: 15 May 2001 10:24
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> Subject: [Maths-Education] LOOKING FOR A STUNNING TEXTBOOK
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> Does anyone know of a STUNNINGLY GOOD TEXTBOOK which covers as many as
> possible of the following topics for use with first year university
> students planning to become primary teachers?
> 
> o	The natural numbers, divisibility, factorisation and primes;
> rational and irrational numbers;  cryptography and bar codes;
> o	the nature of chance and expectation, random events, "fair" and
> "unfair" games, the connection between probability and statistics (eg.
> insurance);
> o	independent and related events;
> o	the nature of a statistical investigation: posing the question,
> collecting the data, summarising, analysing and presenting the data;
> interpreting the results.
> o	regular polygons; regular and homogeneous 
> tessellations, symmetries
> and transformations in the plane; reflections, rotations, 
> translations and
> glide reflections and their combinations; creating and 
> identifying finite
> and infinite patterns in the plane;
> o	an analysis of some of the work of MC Escher; creating 
> Escher-type
> tessellations in the plane;
> o	the Platonic solids and their duals; examples in art and nature;
> construction of solids from nets;
> o	linear, quadratic, exponential and logarithmic functions; and
> o	graphs, directed graphs, spanning trees and networks.
> 
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> Susie Groves
> Associate Professor Susie Groves
> Head, School of Scientific and Developmental Studies
> Faculty of Education
> Deakin University
> 221 Burwood Highway
> Burwood 3125
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> +61 3 9244 6112 (fax)
> grovesac@deakin.edu.au
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