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