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Teaching

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 August 2016

A. Orton*
Affiliation:
Centre for Studies in Science and Mathematics Education, University of Leeds, Leeds LS2 9JT

Extract

In teaching a sixth form class recently it occurred to me that there must be a more gentle, perhaps more intuitive, approach to this result than is normally found in textbooks and that some Advanced level mathematics candidates really need a simpler approach. What follows is an account of one lesson. I make no claim to originality, for I find it hard to believe that others have not previously thought of such a simple introduction. However, other teachers did indicate that they had not seen this approach before.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © The Mathematical Association 1988

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