Archive for June 2012
Pre-service elementary teachers’ attitudes to algebra
Posted by: Gary Ernest Davis on: June 8, 2012
Changing Pre-Service Elementary Teachers’ Attitudes to Algebra Educators of pre-service elementary teachers face a constant challenge: their students’ limited understanding of what constitutes mathematics and a mathematical approach to problems. Pre-service elementary teachers’ attitudes to mathematics are generally instrumental, viagra focussed on formulas and correct answers. Here are some illustrative remarks from our students: “… […]
Growth rates of simple integer recurrences
Posted by: Gary Ernest Davis on: June 5, 2012
The sequence of integers defined by – where , the floor of , is the greatest integer – begins 2, 3, 4, 6, 9, 13, 19, 28, 42, 63, 94, 141, 211, 316, 474, 711, 1066, 1599, 2398, 3597, 5395, 8092, 12138, 18207, 27310, 40965, 61447, 92170, 138255, 207382, 311073 and grows rapidly. One can numerically […]
