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288 pages • first pub 2005 (editions)
ISBN/UID: 9780691133911
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Publication date: 05 January 2014
Description
A student in class asks the math teacher: Shouldn't minus times minus make minus? Teachers soon convince most students that it does not. Yet the innocent question brings with it a germ of mathematical creativity. What happens if we encourage that ...
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288 pages • first pub 2005 (editions)
ISBN/UID: 9780691133911
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Publication date: 05 January 2014
Description
A student in class asks the math teacher: Shouldn't minus times minus make minus? Teachers soon convince most students that it does not. Yet the innocent question brings with it a germ of mathematical creativity. What happens if we encourage that ...