The course is designed for the students of the Department of Mathematics and Science Education.

Topics for discussion

1. Miguel A. Padrón & Ángel Plaza (2021) A mechanically-based proof of the arithmetic mean harmonic mean inequality, International Journal of Mathematical Education in Science and Technology, 52:8, 1250-1252 [pdf]
2. Darren C. Ong (2020) Quasiperiodic music, Journal of Mathematics and the Arts, 14:4, 285-296 [pdf]
3. Lorelei Koss (2017) Visual arts, design, and differential equations, Journal of Mathematics and the Arts, 11:3, 129-158 [pdf]
4. Harun Šiljak, Soviet Street Mathematics: Landau’s License Plate Game, The Mathematical Intelligencer volume 40, pages64–66 (2018) [pdf]
5. Scott A. Annin and Kevin S. Lai, Common Errors in Counting Problems, The Mathematics Teacher , February 2010, Vol. 103, No. 6, pp. 402-409 [pdf]
6. Rebecca L. Seaberg, Ruth Dover and Corey Andreasen, Fibonacci Numbers and Bricklaying: Counting Geometrically, The Mathematics Teacher , February 2011, Vol. 104, No. 6, pp. 452-458 [pdf]
7. Charles F. Marion, Beyond 1 + 2 = 3 and 32 + 42 = 52, The Mathematics Teacher , Vol. 105, No. 1 (August 2011), pp. 72-75 [pdf]