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Giving meaning to mathematics

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 November 2016

A. G. Howson
A. G. Howson*
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, The University, Southampton SO9 5NH
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Extract

This article is based on students’ remarks about the introduction of matrices and linear transformations; remarks which provide interesting support to those recorded by M. L. Cornelius [1] in a recent Gazette. However, the purpose of the article is not merely to record students’ opinions, but to consider what implications such responses have for us as teachers.

Type
Research Article
Information
The Mathematical Gazette , Volume 58 , Issue 406 , December 1974 , pp. 246 - 250
Copyright
Copyright © Mathematical Association 1974

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