Review

Author(s): Philip Peak

Review by: Philip Peak
Source: The Mathematics Teacher, Vol. 65, No. 7 (NOVEMBER 1972), p. 651
Published by: National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
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matics at this level, but most of the standard determinants and vectors in space. There are
derivations are included. There is no shortage of also essays on constructible angles, affine trans
graded exercises, all with answers, and in some formations, topology, and other related topics.
cases, the entire solution is included. A well A modern text that retains the excitement of

written, teachable text for students who have classical analytic geometry.?Schaumberger.
had one and one-half years of standard high
Modern Ajyplied Mathematics, teacher's ed.
school mathematics.?Schaumberger.
(Tj, Ts), Marvin Gold and Robert E. Carl
Mathematics jor the Elementary School Teacher berg. Workbook, Programmed Practice, James
(Tt),Eugene D. Nichols and Robert L. Swain. J. Roberge. Boston: Houghton MifBin Co.,
New York: Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1971. 1972.Pp. 29 + ix+ 422, $5.40; and pp. iv +
Pp. xii+ 518. 121, $1.65.
The authors have related those aspects of The text features chapter objectives, a wealth
mathematics relevant for the elementary teacher of exercises, and many practical applications.
to the fundamental ideas in elementary school Important rules and concepts are color accented.
arithmetic programs. The emphasis is on under Examples are detailed; language is simple. Each
standing the why of the process and the rationale chapter has exercises for maintaining skills, self
of the algorithms taught to elementary school analysis tests, and chapter tests. Programmed
students. The usual content is included, as well Practice is for practice only; it could not be
as the nonmetric, metric, and coordinate geome used without the text.?Munro.
independently
try needed for the understanding of that ge

ometry introduced in the elementary Modern Mathematical Concepts (Tt, ), P. L.

typically
There is some All new terms Bhatnagar. New Delhi: Affiliated East-West
school. probability.
are set Selected Press, 1971. Pp. xiv + 332, $5.
in the end-of-chapter glossary.
answers are provided.?Peak. Dr. Marshall H. Stone in his foreword to the
text points out that the author is pointing the
Mathematics Made Difficult: A Handbook for for attacking the problem the
way concerning
the Perplexed (L, S), Carl E. Linderholm.
teacher's lack of preparation for teaching mod
New York: World Publishing, 1972. Pp. 207, ern mathematics in the secondary school. The
$6.95.
author has done just that in the 16 lessons de
As the author says, "Where there is no con
signed to introduce the uninitiated to the mod
fusion, there is no prestige." This clever book ern concepts in such a way that they can con
will cause any reader who can look in his mirror tinue to develop themselves and at the same
and see something less than perfection to think
time help their students do likewise.The topics
about those many mathematical concepts pre are
covered sets,
logic, matrices, groups, fields,
viously accepted on logic and faith. No brief are good
and Boolean
algebra. There examples
summary can reflect the impact a reader of this
and exercises with an appendix of hints and
book will experience. Questions such as, Ought answers to selected exercises.?Peak.
we to add before we count, Does anyone know
the true names of numbers, How does one num My Computer UnderstandsMe (S), DYMAX.
ber pages mathematically, What is the highest Menlo Park, Calif.: DYMAX, 1971. Pp. 59,
common factor of zero and zero, Why is the in $1.19.
side of a circle where the center is, Shouldn't a A very cute littlepamphlet, limitedbut useful
hole in a board be outside the board, are dis for supplementary reading by students learning
cussed. BASIC. I enjoyed it. It would be particularly
serious mathematical thought.?Peak. appropriate forhigh schools that includeBASIC
After reading this, the simple things in mathe in their offerings.?Dodes.
matics will provide you with motivation for
A New Table of Indefinite Integrals: Computer
Modern Analytic Geometry ( ?,Tt), William Klerer and Fred Gross
Processed (L), Melvin
Wooton, Edwin F. Beckenbach, and Frank J.
man. New York: Dover Publications,, 1971.
Boston: Mifflin Co., 1972.
Fleming. Houghton
Pp. xiii+ 198,$3.
Pp. xiii + 408 + 31, $8.95.
More than 2000 computer-processed indefinite
Designed for a one-semester course, this book who works a good deal with
integrals for anyone
has enough material to permit considerable or
indefinite integrals differential equations.?
flexibility. More emphasis is on vector methods
SCHAUMBERGER.
than is usual in a basic text, but both vector
and Cartesian methods are given thorough treat Numerical Solution of Differential Equations
ments. In addition to all the standard topics in (L), William Edmund Milne. New York:
two and three dimensions, there is material on Dover Publications, 1970.Pp. xi + 359, $4.

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