Ants, bikes, & clocks : problem solving for undergraduates

By: Briggs, WilliamMaterial type: TextTextPublication details: USA: SIAM, [c2005]Description: 168 pISBN: 9780898715743LOC classification: QA63
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
Summary: Ants, Bikes, and Clocks: Problem Solving for Undergraduates is a readable and enjoyable text designed to strengthen the problem-solving skills of undergraduate students. The book, which provides hundreds of mathematical problems, gives special emphasis to problems in context, often called story problems or modeling problems, that require mathematical formulation as a preliminary step. Both analytical and computational approaches, as well as the interplay between them, are included. This engaging book will strengthen students' mathematical skills, introduce them to new mathematical ideas, demonstrate the connectedness of mathematics, and improve both their analytical and computational problem solving. Students are encouraged to use the computer, or any tool at hand, for experimentation or to test their ideas.
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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

Ants, Bikes, and Clocks: Problem Solving for Undergraduates is a readable and enjoyable text designed to strengthen the problem-solving skills of undergraduate students. The book, which provides hundreds of mathematical problems, gives special emphasis to problems in context, often called story problems or modeling problems, that require mathematical formulation as a preliminary step. Both analytical and computational approaches, as well as the interplay between them, are included. This engaging book will strengthen students' mathematical skills, introduce them to new mathematical ideas, demonstrate the connectedness of mathematics, and improve both their analytical and computational problem solving. Students are encouraged to use the computer, or any tool at hand, for experimentation or to test their ideas.

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