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ERIC Number: EJ961094
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2011-Nov
Pages: 6
Abstractor: As Provided
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ISSN: ISSN-0746-8342
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One Problem, Nine Student-Produced Proofs
Birky, Geoffrey; Campbell, Connie M.; Raman, Manya; Sandefur, James; Somers, Kay
College Mathematics Journal, v42 n5 p355-360 Nov 2011
This paper tells the story of what happened when students in the authors' sophomore-level introduction-to-proof classes were given a theorem to prove with no expectation about what proof method to use. The paper discusses the nine different student-produced proofs of the statement: If "n" is an integer such that "n" is greater than or equal to 3, then "n"[superscript 3] is greater than ("n" + 1)[superscript 2].
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Descriptive
Education Level: Higher Education
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Language: English
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