Math Girls Talk about Integers

✍ Scribed by Hiroshi Yuki; Tony Gonzalez

Publisher: Bento Books
Year: 2014
Tongue: English
Leaves: 224
Series: Math Girls Talk About... 2
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

Math Girls Talk About the Integers introduces students to a variety of fun and informative topics in discrete math, including curious features of the prime numbers, tricks for checking for multiples of 3 and 9 (and why those tricks work!), using division remainders to solve some unusual problems, and an in-depth look at proof by mathematical induction. These topics are introduced through conversations between the characters from Math Girls, offering a fun way to learn this serious content. Each chapter comes with review problems and answers, and an appendix gives more challenging, open-ended problems for readers wanting to push the limits of their understanding. This book is the second in a series aimed at preparing students for advanced mathematics studies.

✦ Table of Contents

Math Girls Talk About Integers
To My Readers
Cast of Characters
Contents
Prologue
Chapter 1 - Checking for Multiples
Problems for Chapter 1
Chapter 2 - Prime Numbers
Problems for Chapter 2
Chapter 3 - Number Guessing and Mysterious 31
Problems for Chapter 3
Chapter 4 - Math on Clocks
Problems for Chapter 4
Chapter 5 - Mathematical Induction
Problems for Chapter 5
Epilogue
Answers to Problems
Answers to Chapter 1 Problems
Answers to Chapter 2 Problems
Answers to Chapter 3 Problems
Answers to Chapter 4 Problems
Answers to Chapter 5 Problems
More Problems
Extra Chapter 1 Problems
Extra Chapter 2 Problems
Extra Chapter 3 Problems
Extra Chapter 4 Problems
Extra Chapter 5 Problems
Afterword
Index
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