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ERIC Number: EJ1236122
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2020
Pages: 17
Abstractor: As Provided
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ISSN: ISSN-1051-1970
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Classroom Experiences in Introducing Students to Conjectures, Exploration and Visual Proofs Using Experiments on the Möbius Strip
Flórez, Rigoberto; Mukherjee, Antara
PRIMUS, v30 n1 p50-66 2020
We describe some classic experiments on the Möbius strip, the projective plane band, and the Klein bottle band. We present our experience with freshmen college students, college teachers, high school students, and Mathematics Education graduate students. These experiments are designed to encourage readers to learn more about the properties of the Möbius strip and provide visual proofs of these properties using exploration techniques. The experiments include constructing the objects, observing their properties, and explaining via experiments that altering the objects by cutting them does not preserve their hereditary properties.
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Descriptive
Education Level: Higher Education; Postsecondary Education; Secondary Education; High Schools
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Language: English
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