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Griffiths, Martin; MacHale, Des – International Journal of Mathematical Education in Science and Technology, 2017
We study here an aspect of an infinite set "P" of multivariate polynomials, the elements of which are associated with the arithmetic-geometric-mean inequality. In particular, we show in this article that there exist infinite subsets of probability "P" for which every element may be expressed as a finite sum of squares of real…
Descriptors: Arithmetic, Geometry, Geometric Concepts, Algebra
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Perkins, Karen – Australian Mathematics Teacher, 2016
The topics of decimals and polygons were taught to two classes by using challenging tasks, rather than the more conventional textbook approach. Students were given a pre-test and a post-test. A comparison between the two classes on the pre- and post-test was made. Prior to teaching through challenging tasks, students were surveyed about their…
Descriptors: Pretests Posttests, Geometric Concepts, Plane Geometry, Comparative Analysis
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de Alwis, Amal – International Journal of Mathematical Education in Science and Technology, 2012
The article begins with a well-known property regarding tangent lines to a cubic polynomial that has distinct, real zeros. We were then able to generalize this property to any polynomial with distinct, real zeros. We also considered a certain family of cubics with two fixed zeros and one variable zero, and explored the loci of centroids of…
Descriptors: Arithmetic, Algebra, Mathematical Formulas, Geometric Concepts
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Ovchinnikov, Sergei – College Mathematics Journal, 2011
Finding the sum of a series in the form of a closed expression has always been a challenging problem in analysis. The paper presents an elementary method for summation of series with terms generated by functions satisfying subtraction identities.
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, College Mathematics, Subtraction, Arithmetic
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Skurnick, Ronald – Mathematics and Computer Education, 2007
The Pythagorean Theorem, arguably one of the best-known results in mathematics, states that a triangle is a right triangle if and only if the sum of the squares of the lengths of two of its sides equals the square of the length of its third side. Closely associated with the Pythagorean Theorem is the concept of Pythagorean triples. A "Pythagorean…
Descriptors: Geometric Concepts, Arithmetic, Number Concepts, Mathematical Formulas