Sentences with phrase «mathematical work»

He has studied mathematical work, student thinking, and teacher decision - making in geometry classrooms with particular attention to the use of reasoning and proof to solve problems and develop new ideas.

In 1890, when Russell was his freshman pupil at Trinity College, Cambridge, Whitehead conceived a large scheme of mathematical work, which he pursued for decades.

So far we have explored the technical shortcomings of Whitehead's most significant mathematical works, Universal Algebra and Principia Mathematica, and their connections with and implications for his philosophy of mathematics.

The roots of Francesco De Comité's Serendipist Alien Angel go back 2,300 years to Greek geometer Apollonius of Perga, whose mathematical work inspired the idea of an Apollonian gasket.

It is a fascinating mathematical work that demonstrates undoubted genius.

These are his most purely mathematical works, yet even here it is precisely the careful hand - rendering and sense of laborious process coming up against the ideal of pure mathematical structure that makes them powerful art.

There is yet a third place where Kurt Gödel's mathematical work has theological purchase: in Einstein's failure to reconcile the deterministic world of general relativity with the probabilistic world of quantum mechanics.

«With some mathematical work, I described the plate tectonic «quadrupole», which defines two points of «net convergence» and two points of «net divergence» of tectonic plate motions.»

With SM, students are required to show their mathematical work, not explain in essays how they did the problems or how they felt about them.

Pat Herbst is a mathematics educator whose research focuses on the nature of the mathematical work that students do in secondary classrooms and on the work teachers do to manage knowledge development.

Even when you do make it part of every job description, codify this in writing, glue it to the table, and read and reread it before every class, some students will insist on sticking to their lane because roles give students something they can do, allowing them to avoid the challenge of the mathematical work that they believe they can't do.