Antoni Chronowski (2006)
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This article is concerned with some topics of the transformationsof the graphs of functions. It is designated to serve as a text for thestudents of mathematics (prospective teachers) and the teachers of ma-thematics.In this paper we give the answer to the following problem:Given the graph of the function f:R Df
Maciej Klakla, Renata Liszka, Vladimir Mityushev (2009)
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In the paper, we describe how to introduce the trigonometric functions using their functional characteristics and the Eisenstein series.
Maria Dąbrowa (2014)
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The aims and functions of mathematics education differ depending on the level of education. Moreover, the role of mathematics itself differs depending on the domain of its application. In this paper, we focus on mathematics education in the course of economics studies. Unfortunately, while mathematical methods prove useful in building economic models and the importance is still growing, the mathematics education plays increasingly smaller role in the course of economics studies at Polish...
Antoni Chronowski, Zbigniew Powązka (2012)
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In the education of mathematicians, including teachers of mathematics, the measure theory plays an important role. From the experience in and research on teaching the measure theory it follows that on of the important reasons why students encounter difficulties in the subject is their insufficient ability to apply their knowledge of other branches of mathematics, especially of the set theory and topology. In this article we propose a series of problem analyses and exercises aimed at...
Izabela Jóźwik, Małgorzata Terepeta (2016)
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Mathematical texts are characterised by the occurrence of specificsymbols. They may be letters (as applied, for example, by Euclid), numbersymbols or graphic signs with context-independent meaning. Mathematicalsymbols store knowledge of previous generations that provides frameworkswith which to examine history of mathematical problems. In this paper, wedeal with symbols related to the concept of function and related concepts likelimit, and some other set theoretical or logical concepts....
Jan Górowski, Adam Łomnicki (2013)
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In the paper a set of strategy games is presented. It is shown how the “manipulative” developing of the winning strategy of a known and simple game can lead to conceptual reasoning based on reduction; then it is suggested how to formalise and generalise such a game, similar games and the procedure of finding the winning strategy.
Antoni Chronowski, Joanna Major, Zbigniew Powązka (2009)
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In this article we present some didactic ideas of introducing theabsolute value of a real number by means of functional equations and aninequality. The basic properties of the absolute value of a real number arewritten as functional equations and an inequality. The function "absolutevalue" is a solution of a suitable functional equation or an inequality.
Jan Górowski, Adam Łomnicki (2016)
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The purpose of this paper is to show how the process of provinga theorem in different ways or proving generalized versions of the theorem,after learning one its proofs, influences the development of the skills of provingtheorems and analysing proofs by the students of mathematics. Toillustrate this process we use an elementary theorem about numbers and itsgeneralizations, giving fourteen proofs. Proving theorems we use methodsand facts which are available to high school students. ...
Barbara Pieronkiewicz, James Tanton (2019)
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In this paper we explore different ways of solving quadratic equations. Our main goal is to review traditional textbooks methods and offer an alternative, often side-stepped method based on the area model. We conclude that whereas traditional methods offer effective algorithms that quickly lead to the desired results, alternative methods may enhance meaningful and joyful learning.
Gagrat, M., Naimpally, S. A.
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Tadeusz Rams (2012)
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Asking questions is one of the most common activities of mathematics teachers at various levels of education. Moreover, the way the teachers formulate questions has profound impact on the results of teaching, especially on their pupils' reasoning process. Erotetic logic is frequently presented in a very formal manner. In this paper, we restrict our attention to these aspects of erotetic logic that can turn it into a useful framework to describe various didactic situations. In particular,...
Neeb, Karl-Hermann
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Jan Górowski, Adam Łomnicki (2006)
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The paper contains some theorems (with proofs) from numbers divisibility theory, and suggestions how to use them in the process of teacher training, which provide good opportunities for developing students’ creative attitude in the process of discovering new facts in elementary mathematics.
Jan Górowski, Adam Łomnicki (2015)
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The formulas for the m-th iterate of an arbitrary homographicfunction H are determined and the necessary and sufficient conditions for a solution ofthe equation , to be an infinite n-periodic sequence are given. Based on the results from this paper one can easily determine some particular solutionsof the Babbage functional equation
Владимир В. Афанасьев (2012)
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In the paper, the author presents the basic concepts and theorems concerning methods of mathematical statistics and its application in the domain of empirical research. Several examples presented in the paper can be useful as patterns of using statistical tool in didactic research.
Zbigniew Powązka (2013)
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This paper is a reflection on the process of forming the basic concepts of mathematical analysis in students. These studies were conducted in the years 2002-2011 and they coincided with the period of major educational reforms in our country. These reforms had an impact on the level of Mathematics teaching in various schools and on anticipatory preparing of young people to study this subject. Thus, this work is an attempt to summarize the results of the already described various stages...
Antoni Pardała (2012)
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The subject matter of this paper relates to one of the modern research trends in teaching mathematics: the problems of quality of mathematical education of pupils and students in the twenty-first century in different countries and cultural traditions. This analysis throws light on the literature, research results, and observations from the Polish perspective of practice, and outlines the intentions of the range. The work also discusses some theoretical bases for the concept of improving...
Piotr Błaszczyk (2012)
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In this paper, we present some basic facts concerning ordered fields. We review definitions of an ordered field, give an example of a field that admits many orderings, and present equivalent definitions of the axiom of Archimedes and the continuity axiom. We show how to extend an ordered field by means of an ultrapower construction and formal power series.
Zbigniew Powązka (2006)
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This article presents the author’s research results concerning the teaching of introductory notions and theorems of mathematical analysis. The research was carried out among the first-year students of mathematics. The main objects of the research were: – the observation of the degree of assimilation of the basic notions and theorems by the students; – the investigation of the students’ progress in proving theorems and constructing suitable examples and counterexamples. The final part...
Joanna Major, Zbigniew Powązka (2006)
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This paper deals with some studies of understanding the absolute value of real numbers. This article is divided into two parts. The first one contains the conclusions drawn from the analysis of the solutions of the mathematical problems with the absolute value which were solved by the secondary school pupils. The second part of the article contains the didactic proposition of teaching the concept of absolute value at various levels of mathematical education.
Jan Górowski, Adam Łomnicki (2014)
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In this paper, we give formulas determining the Fibonacci polynomials of order k using the so-called generalized Newton symbols, i.e., the coefficients in the expansion of (1+z +z^2 +. . .+z^{k−1})n with respect to the powers of z.
Joanna Major, Zbigniew Powązka (2012)
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In this paper, we understand the term ''creative attitude'' to denote an action of the learner which consists in undertaking creative activity. This activity can take different forms, such as: discovery, invention, a creative act, etc. We understand ''discovery'' to denote a fact which already exists but was unknown to the discoverer. While teaching mathematics, we deal with such an understanding of ''discovery'' e.g. when we use the problem method. Thence, subjectively new theorems...
Hudzik, Henryk
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Monika Czajkowska (2016)
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Practice proves that students tend to face difficulties in learninggeometry. This observation is partially confirmed by the results of educationalresearch as well as external exams. It happens repeatedly that studentsget lower marks in arithmetic or algebra tasks. The causes of such situationare complex. One of the reasons is that teaching geometry requires specialteaching skills characteristic for this specific teaching branch as well as theneed for “specific vision”. Therefore, I decided...
Katarzyna Słomczyńska (2017)
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In this paper we survey, also in historical perspective, the results connected with the notion of the commutativity degree of a finite group, i.e., the probability that two randomly selected elements of the group commute.
Mirosława Sajka (2006)
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This article presents the author’s reflections, comments and problems that arise in relation to the issue of defining the subject matter knowledge a teacher should have in the context of Even’s theoretical framework. They incline to start working on a considerable modification of this conception in order to explore its adaptability in other contexts. This paper also includes initial results of this modification.
Damian Wiśniewski, Krzysztof Żyjewski (2016)
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The article is a comprehensive research paper which provides theoreticalas well as practical aspects of the Ferdinand George Frobenius method.This method is based on seeking infinite series solutions for certainclass of differential equations. It is a generalization of the power series methodand allows us to solve the differential equations at least near somesingular points.
Zbigniew Powązka (2009)
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In this paper we present the results of our research carried out among the students of the first, second and third years of mathematical studies in the years 2003-2006. The research was focused on the difficulties these students faced in understanding the fundamental notions of the mathematical analysis such as: a limit, continuity, differentiability and integrability. These special problems, described in this paper, are called ”false beliefs”.
Mariola Tracz (2014)
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The educational reform in 1999 introduced external examinations into the Polish system of education. The examinations are carried out on the basis of educational standards for individual subjects and subject groups. External examinations, especially new Matura examination, changed diametrically previous solutions which is a challenge to teachers, students and parents. Being frequently chosen by students out of the group of optional subjects, geography has a large contribution to Matura...
Małgorzata Bajgier-Kowalska, Renata Rettinger (2014)
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The dynamic development of tourism in many regions of the world causes competition boost which, in turn, leads to a variety of changes in tourist offers. Tourism is an alternative for other types of economic activity, this relates to spatial units of diverse area, including cities. The tourist function can become the mechanism of local development for cities and the protection of the cultural and natural heritage. The main goal of the article is to present the tourist potential of a...
Jan Górowski, Adam Łomnicki (2013)
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The aim of this paper is to derive new explicit formulas for thefunction π, where π(x) denotes the number of primes not exceeding x. Some justifications and generalisations of the formulas obtained by Willans (1964),Minac (1991) and Kaddoura and Abdul-Nabi (2012) are also obtained.
Maciej Major, Barbara Nawolska (2006)
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This paper proposes a way to adapt theories of countable probabilistic spaces in order to use them to educate mathematical students trained to be teachers. It presents many examples of how to develop students’ mathematical activities using stochastic games called Penney games. Introducing chance games delivers the opportunity of creating and examining probabilistic spaces. The fairness of games is a problem that inspires and motivates mathematicians to formulate problems and tasks of...