Math Mistakes That Make the News

• Autores: Heather A. Lewis
• Localización: Primus: problems, resources, and issues in mathematics undergraduate studies, ISSN 1051-1970, Vol. 25, Nº. 2, 2015, págs. 181-192
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • Teachers often promote care in doing calculations, but for most students a single mistake rarely has major consequences. This article presents several real-life events in which relatively minor mathematical errors led to situations that ranged from public embarrassment to the loss of millions of dollars� worth of equipment. The stories here are appropriate to share in middle school through undergraduate classrooms