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- From: sdunbar@nde.unl.edu (steven dunbar)
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- Subject: Re: group theory for HS students
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- Date: 11 Nov 92 02:29:30 GMT
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- sdunbar@nde.unl.edu (steven dunbar) writes:
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- >Here's a data point. My daughter is in the eighth week of 7th grade. She
- >is in an "honors" math class of about 30 kids. They all know the basic
- >concepts of operation, inverse, and identity in general and with specific
- >application to the cyclic groups and at least the permutation group on 3
- >elements, along with a couple of other examples. They have not yet called
- >these a group or in the case of two operation on Z mod n, a ring, but they
- >do recognize when they have what the book calls a uni-fold system ( a
- >group) and a bi-fold system, ( a ring). I am waiting for the introduction
- >of these names. Right now, the book they are in is explicitly titled
- >"Intuitive Ideas". It's part of a comprehensive series designed for grades
- >7-10. I don't have the series title or the authors handy, but it was
- >developed at Southern Illinois University, at least in part.
-
- >- Steve Dunbar
-
- I have had a couple of requests for the textbook mentioned above, so here's
- the detailed information:
- Comprehensive School Mathematics Program: Elements of Mathematics
- There is a team of authors. Some are bona fide mathematicians.
- The publisher's address and phone:
- Comprehensive School Mathematics Program
- 12500 E. Iliff Ave. Suite 201
- Aurora, Colorado 80014
- (303) 337-0990
-
- In Volume 0, Intutive Background, are the Chapters
- 1. Operational Systems, 2. The Integers, 3. Sets, Subsets, Operations with
- Sets, 4. Ordered n-tuples, 5. Mappings, 6. The Rational Numbers, 7.
- Decimals and an Application of the Rational Numbers. 8. Introduction to
- Probability, 9. Introduction to Number Theory, 10. Algebra in Operational
- Systems, 11, Algebra of Real Functions, 12, Geometry, Incidence and
- Isometries, 13, Geometry, Similitudes, Coordinates and Trigonometry, 14,
- Topics in Probability and Statistics, 15, Topics in Number Theory, 16,
- Introduction to Computer Programming.
-
- The 7th grade will cover Chapters, 1,2,3,4,7,8,9,13,14.
-