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ERIC Number: EJ578333
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1998
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Reference Count: 0
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ISSN: ISSN-0025-5769
On Proofs and Their Performance as Works of Art.
Winicki-Landman, Greisy
Mathematics Teacher, v91 n8 p722-25 Nov 1998
Presents a mathematics activity that illustrates how such adjectives as elegant, surprising, concise, and challenging can be, and in fact are, attributed to proofs by a not very expert audience. (ASK)
Descriptors: Aesthetic Values, Algebra, Mathematical Concepts, Mathematics Activities, Mathematics Instruction, Proof (Mathematics), Secondary Education, Secondary School Mathematics
Publication Type: Guides - Classroom - Teacher; Journal Articles
Education Level: N/A
Audience: Practitioners; Teachers
Language: English
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