[MATHEDCC] Liberal Arts Mathematics

Sallythom@AOL.COM
Sat, 23 Aug 1997 13:34:59 -0400 (EDT)

Three books I use as additional sources for the Liberal Arts course we teach
from For All Practical Purposes:

Africa Counts Claudia Zaslavsky Prindle Weber & Schmidt 1973
Art and the Computer Melvin L. Pruett Mc Graw-Hill 1984
Math Equals: Biographies of Women Mathematicians + Related Activities
Teri Perl Addison-Wesley 1978

These are books I've had for years--don't know it they are in print still.
For a required project, students can read a selected chapter from one of
these books, summarize it and relate it to their own lives. Or do a 3-d
geometry project or collect and analyze stat data. I get comments like "I
didn't know women (or Africans) could do mathematics." Also get insightful
reviews that they are now looking at patterns from a mathematical viewpoint
with good analyses of a pattern not in the book.

Sally Thomas, Orange Coast College, Costa Mesa CA
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