Teaching Mathematics Through Games

ISBN-13: 9781470462840

Mindy Capaldi

Opis

Active engagement is the key to learning. You want your students doing something that stimulates them to ask questions and creates a need to know. Teaching Mathematics Through Games presents a variety of classroom-tested exercises and activities that provoke the active learning and curiosity that you hope to promote. These games run the gamut from well-known favorites like SET and Settlers of Catan to original games involving simulating structural inequality in New York or playing Battleship with functions. The book contains activities suitable for a wide variety of college mathematics courses, including general education courses, math for elementary education, probability, calculus, linear algebra, history of math, and proof-based mathematics. Some chapter activities are short term, such as a drop-in lesson for a day, and some are longer, including semester-long projects. All have been tested, refined, and include extensive implementation notes.

Spis treści

• A. Brandt, Tic-tac-whoa!
• A. Glesser and M. Rathbun, Using micro robots to develop mathematical thinking
• V. Y. Lim, Game changers: Building quantitative literacy by simulating structural inequality
• A. Harsy, K. Holmes, S. Kaschner, and M. Meyer, Teaching probability using dice and RiskR
• A. Harsy, K. Holmes, S. Kaschner, and M. Meyer, Counting your winnings at the casino
• A. Montgomery, Probabilitly problems from the Arkham Horror card game
• J. Bartz, Risk it all or play it safe? Exploring probability through Farkle
• J. Heidenreich, Function Battleship
• C. Latulippe, Numeration Systems Sudoku
• M. Martinez, Set theory games with apples to apples cards
• F. Alayont and D. Clark, Learning graph theory by designing games
• T. Davis, L. Grimley, K. Ince, G. Karaali, B. Kostadinov, and R. Soto, From puzzles to proof-writing: Exploring rich mathematical ideas through mechanical puzzles
• K. Blyman and M. Meyer, Mathematical communication games: Telestrations in the mathematics classroom
• T. Goldberg, Game, SET, algebra!
• J. Austin, B. Kronenthal, and S. Molitoris Miller, Off to a good start: Using mathematics to evaluate settlement locations in Catan
• M. P. Allocca and J. F. Vasquez, Bandits on a wall
• M. Capaldi and T. DeRolf, Get in the 'Sonne: Using Carcassone to explore mathematics