On a Desert Island with Unit Sticks, Continued Fractions and Lagrange

GLY 4866, Computational Geology, provides an opportunity, welcomed by our faculty, to teach quantitative literacy to geology majors at USF. The course continues to evolve although the second author has been teaching it for some 20 years. This paper describes our experiences with a new lab activity t...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Victor J. Ricchezza, H.L. Vacher
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: National Numeracy Network 2016-07-01
Series:Numeracy
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Online Access:http://scholarcommons.usf.edu/numeracy/vol9/iss2/art8/