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Sudakov, Ivan; Bellsky, Thomas; Usenyuk, Svetlana; Polyakova, Victoria V. – PRIMUS, 2016
This work discusses the creation and use of infographics in an undergraduate mathematics course. Infographics are a visualization of information that combines data, formulas, and images. This article discusses how to form an infographic and uses infographics on topics within mathematics and climate as examples. It concludes with survey data from…
Descriptors: College Mathematics, Mathematics Instruction, Undergraduate Study, Teaching Methods
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Taylor, Tara; Knoll, Eva; Landry, Wendy – PRIMUS, 2016
Students often struggle with concepts from abstract algebra. Typical classes incorporate few ways to make the concepts concrete. Using a set of woven paper artifacts, this paper proposes a way to visualize and explore concepts (symmetries, groups, permutations, subgroups, etc.). The set of artifacts used to illustrate these concepts is derived…
Descriptors: Algebra, Mathematical Concepts, Generalization, Abstract Reasoning
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McGee, Daniel, Jr.; Moore-Russo, Deborah; Ebersole, Dennis; Lomen, David O.; Quintero, Maider Marin – PRIMUS, 2012
With the help of the National Science Foundation, the Department of Mathematics at the University of Puerto Rico in Mayaguez has developed a set of manipulatives to help students of science and engineering visualize concepts relating to points, surfaces, curves, contours, and vectors in three dimensions. This article will present the manipulatives…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Calculus, Higher Education, Manipulative Materials