Timeline for Book request: teaching proving and reasoning at an American university
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| Dec 28, 2021 at 6:10 | review | Close votes | |||
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| Dec 28, 2021 at 5:50 | comment | added | user155 | Does this answer your question? How to teach Proofs | |
| Feb 8, 2018 at 19:31 | comment | added | guest | I would go with an "easier" book and just cover it all. Or supplement it towards end of course (if you really cover it all). I think there is way too much "fashion" of wanting hard books but of not really getting mastery of them. Mastery of a slightly lower book is better than partial understanding of a higher book. You can always go back later and deeper. But if you don't build solid foundations, it makes things harder. Instead of looking for the fanciest book, give them a reasonable book and then teach the heck out of the course! | |
| Oct 26, 2017 at 2:37 | comment | added | Dan Christensen | To introduce the basic methods of proof, may I humbly suggest my DC Proof 2.0 freeware with accompanying tutorial. For more information, visit my homepage at dcproof.com | |
| Oct 24, 2017 at 8:13 | comment | added | Dave L Renfro | "I am particularly interested in material that gets them as close as possible to being able to read non-American textbooks." This seems to be a strange request to me, especially since "non-American" is extremely broad, even ambiguous. If this is not a typo, could you elaborate a bit on the rational for this aspect of your question? | |
| Oct 23, 2017 at 23:51 | comment | added | shuhalo | @AlexanderWoo: The university plays in the upper league and math majors will attend the course. Probably some other math-enthusiasts too. I am basically looking for a more friendly version of Bourbaki. | |
| Oct 23, 2017 at 20:41 | comment | added | Flounderer | I strongly dis-recommend a book called "Chapter Zero: Fundamental Notions of Abstract Mathematics" which I had to buy once for an undergraduate course. It is badly over-written and uses weird notation that makes it quite hard to understand. | |
| Oct 23, 2017 at 18:23 | comment | added | Alexander Woo | 3) There are dozens of textbooks for this, and this is really a shopping question. | |
| Oct 23, 2017 at 18:23 | comment | added | Alexander Woo | 2) Roughly speaking, do you want to optimize how well your best students do, or how well your average student does, or how well your worst students (only counting ones putting in reasonable effort) do? | |
| Oct 23, 2017 at 18:21 | comment | added | Alexander Woo | 1) How selective is your university? There is a big difference even between students at UC Berkeley and UC Riverside, never mind Arizona State or Northwest Southeast Central State U. | |
| Oct 23, 2017 at 18:19 | comment | added | Michael Lugo | Has this course been taught before at your university? If so, what text has been used? What prerequisites does the course have? What students typically take it (only math majors? everyone?) | |
| Oct 23, 2017 at 12:15 | answer | added | Gerald Edgar | timeline score: 6 | |
| Oct 23, 2017 at 11:52 | answer | added | Mark Fantini | timeline score: 6 | |
| Oct 23, 2017 at 7:34 | history | edited | Dag Oskar Madsen |
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| Oct 23, 2017 at 4:05 | answer | added | ncr | timeline score: 3 | |
| Oct 23, 2017 at 2:32 | answer | added | perigon | timeline score: 6 | |
| Oct 22, 2017 at 23:48 | answer | added | Daniel R. Collins | timeline score: 6 | |
| Oct 22, 2017 at 23:46 | review | First posts | |||
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| Oct 22, 2017 at 23:42 | history | asked | shuhalo | CC BY-SA 3.0 |