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INFINITY: WELCOME TO OUR PAGE
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This Blog was created for our Math 3940 course to inquire about a math concept of our choice. We chose to investigate the concept of infinity and provide current information that we could apply in the primary/elementary classroom. Mar 31, 2007. WELCOME TO OUR PAGE. Welcome to our blog about Infinity. Please use the table of contents to the right to navigate through our inquiry. Enjoy! Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Professional Resources for Math. You can't get there from here!
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INFINITY: HISTORY OF INFINITY
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This Blog was created for our Math 3940 course to inquire about a math concept of our choice. We chose to investigate the concept of infinity and provide current information that we could apply in the primary/elementary classroom. Mar 31, 2007. What is Infinite about endlessness is only the endlessness itself." - Wittganstein (Wikipedia). Aristotle, C 384- 322 BC. Galileo, 1564- 1642. Georg Cantor, 1845- 1918. In 1655, John Wallis proposed the "lazy 8" as the symbol for Infinity. This symbol may have...
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INFINITY: PROFESSIONAL RESOURCES FOR MATH
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This Blog was created for our Math 3940 course to inquire about a math concept of our choice. We chose to investigate the concept of infinity and provide current information that we could apply in the primary/elementary classroom. Mar 30, 2007. PROFESSIONAL RESOURCES FOR MATH. Krpan, Cathy Marks. The Write Math, Writing in the Math Class. Parsippany,NJ: Dale Seymour. Publications. 2001. ISBN: 0769025056. Leinwand, Steve/Bush, William S. Mathematics Assessment: A Practical Handbook.
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INFINITY: REFERENCES
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This Blog was created for our Math 3940 course to inquire about a math concept of our choice. We chose to investigate the concept of infinity and provide current information that we could apply in the primary/elementary classroom. Mar 30, 2007. Asimov, I. (1959). Cambridge, Massachusetts: Riverside Press. Butterworth, B. (1999). What Counts: How Every Brain is Hardwired for Math. York, NY: The Free Press. Gelman, R., Gallistel, C.R. (1978). The Child’s Understanding of Number. Maletsky, M, E. (1987).
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INFINITY: WHY INFINITY?
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This Blog was created for our Math 3940 course to inquire about a math concept of our choice. We chose to investigate the concept of infinity and provide current information that we could apply in the primary/elementary classroom. Mar 25, 2007. Earlier in this semester we were asked to write a journal entry in response to, "What is mathematics? Is math a human entity or does it exist without us? What role does math play in divinity? What math concepts lend themselves to divinity? As curious as we were, w...
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INFINITY: IMPORTANCE OF INFINITY
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This Blog was created for our Math 3940 course to inquire about a math concept of our choice. We chose to investigate the concept of infinity and provide current information that we could apply in the primary/elementary classroom. Mar 31, 2007. The great mathematician Hermann Weyl called mathematics. The science of the infinite,. Its goal the symbolic comprehension of the infinite with human, that is finite, means'. Indeed, one cannot get very far in mathematics without infinities. ". Subscribe to: Post ...
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INFINITY: REFLECTION
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This Blog was created for our Math 3940 course to inquire about a math concept of our choice. We chose to investigate the concept of infinity and provide current information that we could apply in the primary/elementary classroom. Mar 31, 2007. Great fleas have little fleas upon thier backs to bite 'em,. And little fleas have lesser fleas, and so ad infinitum. And the great fleas themselves, in turn, have greater. Fleas to go on;. While these again have greater still,. And greater still, and so on. Newfo...
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INFINITY: INFINITY TEACHING IDEAS
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This Blog was created for our Math 3940 course to inquire about a math concept of our choice. We chose to investigate the concept of infinity and provide current information that we could apply in the primary/elementary classroom. Mar 31, 2007. There Was a Young Man From Trinity. There was a young man from Trinity,. Who solved the square root of infinity. While counting the digits,. He was seized by the fidgets,. Dropped science, and took up divinity. Anonymous (Maletsky, 1987). Where is the beginning?
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INFINITY: WHAT IS INFINITY?
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This Blog was created for our Math 3940 course to inquire about a math concept of our choice. We chose to investigate the concept of infinity and provide current information that we could apply in the primary/elementary classroom. Mar 27, 2007. Infinity is a floorless room without walls or ceiling.". Anonymous (Tyson, 2003). As future teachers, we feel infinity is not often dealt with in the primary/elementary classroom, but that is offers the potential to explore topics such as:. The concept of zero.