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Labelle, Gilbert – 2000
This set of transparencies shows how the manipulation of combinatorial structures in the context of modern combinatorics can easily lead to interesting teaching and learning activities at every level of education from elementary school to university. The transparencies describe: (1) the importance and relations of combinatorics to science and…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Higher Education, Interdisciplinary Approach, Mathematical Applications
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de Villiers, Michael D. – Physics Teacher, 1991
Presents a simple mathematical model in which resultant speed is the sum or difference between wind speed and runner speed and a more complex model that assumes that only a proportion of the wind's speed affects one's running speed to describe the time difference between running with and without wind. (MDH)
Descriptors: Algebra, High Schools, Integrated Activities, Interdisciplinary Approach