Environmental mathematics in the classroom / edited by B.A. Fusaro, P.C. Kenschaft.
Material type: TextSeries: Classroom resource materialsPublication details: Washington, D.C. : Mathematical Association of America, c2003.Description: viii, 255 p. : ill., maps ; 26 cm. ; pbkISBN:- 0883857146
- 9780883857144:
- 577.0724
Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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General Lending | Carlow Campus Library General Lending | 577.0724 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 62512 |
Includes bibliographical references.
1. Environmental news teaches mathematics Barry Schiller; 2. Using real-world data to understand environmental challenges I. B. Fetta; 3. The price of power C. Schaufele and N. Zumoff; 4. Environmental detective work Charles Hadlock; 5. Modeling ground-level ozone trends J. V. Rauff; 6. The case of the white buffalo J. Fleron and D. Hoagland; 7. Populations, invasions and infections M. E. Walter; 8. Boom M. Moazzam; 9. Age-structured population models W. D. Stone; 10. Environmental economics and water G. H. Rowell; 11. Mathematics of oil spills D. E. Miller and J. E. Snow; 12. Geometry measures tank capacity Y. Nievergelt; 13. Lead poisoning in humans R. S. Cole; 14. Predicting weather for coastal mountains M. Folkoff, D. C. Cathcart and S. M. Hetzler.
Environmental Mathematics in the Classroom includes several chapters accessible enough to be a text in a general education course, or to enrich an elementary algebra course. Ground-level ozone, pollution and water use, preservation of whales, mathematical economics, the movement of clouds over a mountain range, at least one population model and a smorgasbord of 'newspaper mathematics' can be studied at this level and would form a stimulating course. It would prepare future teachers not only to learn basic mathematics, but to understand how they can integrate it into other topics that will intrigue students.
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