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Alayont, Feryal – PRIMUS, 2014
This article presents a problem-based approach that prepares students for future learning in the classroom. In this approach, students complete problem-based activities before coming to class to familiarize themselves with the topics to be covered. After the discussion on how the use of these activities relate to the learning and transfer…
Descriptors: Problem Based Learning, Learning Activities, Class Activities, Calculus
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Jorgensen, Theresa A.; Shipman, Barbara A. – PRIMUS, 2012
This paper presents guided classroom activities that showcase two classic problems in which a finite limit exists and where there is a certain charm to engage liberal arts majors. The two scenarios build solely on students' existing knowledge of number systems and harness potential misconceptions about limits and infinity to guide their thinking.…
Descriptors: Majors (Students), Liberal Arts, Class Activities, Learning Activities
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Bardzell, Michael; Poimenidou, Eirini – PRIMUS, 2011
In this article we present, as a case study, results of undergraduate research involving binomial coefficients modulo a prime "p." We will discuss how undergraduates were involved in the project, even with a minimal mathematical background beforehand. There are two main avenues of exploration described to discover these binomial…
Descriptors: Mathematics Curriculum, Undergraduate Study, Class Activities, Learning Activities
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Garrison, Laura A. – PRIMUS, 2005
This paper describes two classroom activities and a project that supplement a Liberal Arts Mathematics course's coverage of logic and reasoning. The first classroom activity introduces the writing of inductive and deductive arguments, and the second activity involves analyzing a guest speaker's arguments. The project consists of using logic and…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Learning Activities, Games, Logical Thinking