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A student in class asks the math teacher: "Shouldn't minus times minus make minus?" Teachers soon convince most students that it does not. Yet the innocent question brings with it a germ of mathematical creativity. What happens if we encourage that thought, odd and ungrounded though it may seem? Few books in the field of mathematics encourage such

Negative Math How Mathematical Rules Can Be Positively Bent

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A student in class asks the math teacher: "Shouldn't minus times minus make minus?" Teachers soon convince most students that... Read more

    Publisher: Princeton University Press
    Publication Date: 2/4/2014 12:00:00 AM
    ISBN13: 9780691133911, 978-0691133911
    ISBN10: 0691133913

    Number of Pages: 288

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    A student in class asks the math teacher: "Shouldn't minus times minus make minus?" Teachers soon convince most students that it does not. Yet the innocent question brings with it a germ of mathematical creativity. What happens if we encourage that thought, odd and ungrounded though it may seem? Few books in the field of mathematics encourage such

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