Synopses & Reviews
This book is a readable and enjoyable text designed to strengthen the problem-solving skills of undergraduate students.
Synopsis
Supported by narrative, examples, and exercises, Ants, Bikes, and Clocks: Problem Solving for Undergraduates is a readable and enjoyable text designed to strengthen the problem-solving skills of undergraduate students. This book, which provides hundreds of mathematical problems, demonstrates the connectedness of mathematics, and improves students analytical and computational problem solving.
Synopsis
Mathematics educators agree that problem solving is one of the essential skills their students should possess, yet few mathematics courses or textbooks are devoted entirely to developing this skill. Supported by narrative, examples, and exercises, Ants, Bikes, and Clocks: Problem Solving for Undergraduates is a readable and enjoyable text designed to strengthen the problem-solving skills of undergraduate students. This engaging book will strengthen students' mathematical skills, introduce them to new mathematical ideas, demonstrate for them the connectedness of mathematics, and improve both their analytical and computational problem solving.
Table of Contents
1. Introduction; 2. A problem solving framework; 3. Problem solving strategies; 4. How do you do it?; 5. Parts of the whole; 6. A world of change; 7. At any rate; 8. Difference equations; 9. Insight and computing; 10. Take a chance; 11. Toward modeling; 12. Solutions; Bibliography; Index.