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Teachers will find that many of the proofs in this collection are well suited for classroom discussion and for helping students to think visually in mathematics. Pwws have been regular features of the maa journals mathematics magazine and the college mathematics journal for many years, and the maa published the collections of pwws proofs without words. The difference of consecutive integer cubes is congruent to 1 modulo 6 with c. Pictures and diagrams help high school geometry students develop reasoning and proofwriting skills. Exercises in visual thinking in 1993 and proofs without words ii. Click to read more about proofs without words, vol. The sum of squares find, read and cite all the research you need on researchgate. About a year after the publication ofproofs without words. Pwws are not new, many date back to classical greece, ancient china, and medieval europe and the middle east. Proofs without words have been transformed into dynamic presentations. Here we will generalize from the given gure, which depicts the case n 7. Various proofs without words related to the sum and difference formulas. An invitation to proofs without words labjor unicamp.
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Since the 1970s, the mathematical association of americas maa journals mathematics magazine and college mathematics journal have published proofs without words pwws nelsen 1993. Available formats pdf please select a format to send. Even ancient mathematicians expressed mathematical ideas with pictures. Pwws are pictures or diagrams that help the reader see why a particular mathematical statement may be true and how one might begin to go about proving. Proofs without words in geometry national council of teachers of. Pullman wa 99164 summary we demonstrate graphically the result that the alte rnating harmonic series sums to the natural logarithm of two. Some examples of dynamic proofs without words in powerpoint kuochung huang, yuanfeng peng, and wenlung hsu.
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