Math Girls Talk about Integers
Author | : Hiroshi Yuki |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 236 |
Release | : 2014-09-16 |
ISBN-10 | : 1939326249 |
ISBN-13 | : 9781939326249 |
Rating | : 4/5 (249 Downloads) |
Download or read book Math Girls Talk about Integers written by Hiroshi Yuki and published by . This book was released on 2014-09-16 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Math Girls Talk About Integers introduces students to a variety of fun and informative topics in discrete math, including curious features of the prime numbers, tricks for checking for multiples of 3 and 9 (and why those tricks work!), using division remainders to solve some unusual problems, and an in-depth look at proof by mathematical induction. These topics are introduced through conversations between the characters from Math Girls, offering a fun way to learn this serious content. Each chapter comes with review problems and answers, and an appendix gives more challenging, open-ended problems for readers wanting to push the limits of their understanding.