Skip to content
You are not logged in |Login  
     
Limit search to available items
Book Cover
film
FilmDVD

Title The Art and craft of mathematical problem solving / Paul Zeitz.

Publication Info. Chantilly, Va. : Teaching Company, [2010]
©2010

Copies

Location Call No. Status
 Portland Public Library - Adult Department  DVD 510 ZEI DISC 1-2    DUE 04-13-24
 Portland Public Library - Adult Department  DVD 510 ZEI DISC 3-4    Check Shelf
 Portland Public Library - Adult Department  DVD 510 ZEI COURSE BK    Check Shelf
Edition Library edition.
Description 4 videodiscs (approximately 720 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 2 course guidebooks (21 cm.).
Series The great courses. Science & mathematics
Great courses (DVD). Science & mathematics.
System Details DVD.
Bibliography Bibliographic references in guides.
Note Title from container
Performer Lectures by Paul Zeitz.
Note In 2 containers : each container with 2 DVDs and 1 course guidebook.
Summary Presents 24 lectures (each about 30 minutes long) by Paul Zeitz, Professor of Mathematics at the University of San Francisco and author of The art and craft of problem solving.
Contents Part 1. Disc 1. Lecture 1. Problems versus exercises -- Lecture 2. Strategies and tactics -- Lecture 3. The problem solver's mind-set -- Lecture 4. Searching for patterns -- Lecture 5. Closing the deal, proofs and tools -- Lecture 6. Pictures, recasting, and points of view -- Disc 2. Lecture 7. The great simplifier, parity -- Lecture 8. The great unifier, symmetry -- Lecture 9. Symmetry wins games -- Lecture 10. Contemplate extreme values -- Lecture 11. The culture of problem solving -- Lecture 12. Recasting integers geometrically.
Part 2. Disc 3. Lecture 13. Recasting integers with counting and series Lecture 14. Things in categories, the pigeonhole tactic -- Lecture 15. The greatest unifier of all, invariants -- Lecture 16. Squarer is better, optimizing 3s and 2s -- Lecture 17. Using physical intuition, and imagination -- Lecture 18. Geometry and the transformation tactic -- Disc 4. Lecture 19. Building from simple to complex with induction -- Lecture 20. Induction on a grand scale -- Lecture 21. Recasting numbers as polynomials, weird dice -- Lecture 22. A relentless tactic solves a very hard problem -- Lecture 23. Genius and Conway's infinite checkers frontier -- Lecture 24. How versus why, the final frontier.
Note GMD: videorecording.
Subject Problem solving.
Mathematics -- Problems, exercises, etc.
Genre/Form Educational films.
Added Author Zeitz, Paul, 1958-
Teaching Company.
Added Title Mathematical problem solving
ISBN 1598036211
9781598036213
159803622X paperback guidebook
9781598036220 paperback guidebook
Music No. 1483 Teaching Company
-->
Add a Review