A random walk through experimental mathematics

نویسندگان

  • Eunice Y. S. Chan
  • Robert M. Corless
چکیده

We describe our adventures in creating a new first-year course in Experimental Mathematics that uses active learning. We used a stateof-the-art facility, called The Western Active Learning Space, and got the students to ‘drive the spaceship’ (at least a little bit). This paper describes some of our techniques for pedagogy, some of the vignettes of experimental mathematics that we used, and some of the outcomes. EYSC was a student in the simultaneously-taught senior sister course “Open Problems in Experimental Mathematics” the first time it was taught and an unofficial co-instructor the second time. Jon Borwein attended the Project Presentation Day (the second time) and gave thoughtful feedback to each student. This paper is dedicated to his memory.

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • CoRR

دوره abs/1801.05423  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 2018