Writing Projects for Mathematics Courses

Download or read book Writing Projects for Mathematics Courses written by Annalisa Crannell and published by American Mathematical Soc.. This book was released on 2004-12-31 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Writing Projects for Mathematics Courses is a collection of writing projects suitable for a wide range of undergraduate mathematics courses, from a survey of mathematics to differential equations. The projects vary in their level of difficulty and in the mathematics that they require but are similar in the mode of presentation and use of applications. Students see these problems as real in a way that textbook problems are not, even though many of the characters involved (e.g. dime-store detectives and CEOs) are obviously fictional. The stories are sometimes fanciful and sometimes grounded in standard scientific applications, but the mere existence of the story draws the students in and makes the problem relevant.