Math Girls Talk about Integers

ISBN-13: 9781939326232 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 236 str.

Hiroshi Yuki; Joseph Reeder; Tony Gonzalez

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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.