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Critical Thinking Exercises for Mathematics instruction

  • contributed by :By Janet Wyatt and Min Zeng, Longview

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    Mathpages.com has several papers on different approaches to doing Math which might be helpful to students:

    This link illustrates the intuitive notion of the tangent plane to a graph of a function of two variables: This site provides an interactive learning on parametric curves from a calculus course. This site provides an interactive learning on "Finding Areas with the Gauss-Green Formula" This site "Internet for Educators" contains 5 links to math resources
    We can also learn (or teach) by showing what not to do:
    The Glossary of Mathematical Mistakes
    For a novel approach, try some games which are designed to help in understanding numbers and math. 
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