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Problem Posing as an Integral Part for the Support of Mathematically Highly Gifted Teenagers Within the PriSMa Math Circles
The support of mathematically gifted children and teenagers has a long tradition in Hamburg. More than 20 years ago, a concept for identifying and...
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Questions About Fostering and Identifying of Mathematically Promising Students in Times of Covid-19 Pandemic
This article gives an impression of questions on aspects of fostering high mathematical talent. It describes considerations about our talent search...
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Using Maths Competition Problems at Camps
In this paper, I propose that problems from maths competitions are well suited to teaching mathematically gifted learners reasoning and to be active...
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The Roles of Intelligence and Creativity for Learning Mathematics
Learning mathematics is a long-term process that is influenced by a variety of psychological factors including various cognitive abilities. In this...
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The Roles of Intelligence and Creativity for Learning Mathematics
Learning mathematics is a long-term process that is influenced by a variety of psychological factors including various cognitive abilities. In this...
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Teaching Units for Mathematical Enrichment Activities
This chapter contains three teaching units for enrichment activities with mathematically interested children, “Discoveries in a 10-adic Number...
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The Later Years
In this chapter we see old Fibonacci turning his attention to a new project, stimulated by his many experiences throughout the years. He is now...
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Meritocratism, Errors, and The Community of Inquiry
Charles Sanders Peirce was brought up in a family with two other mathematicians: his older brother James Mills and his father Benjamin. Benjamin...
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Individual Differences in Mathematical Abilities and Competencies
Mathematics is one of the core subjects in education and a critical factor in driving future life success. Thus, understanding how children learn to...
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Individual Differences in Mathematical Abilities and Competencies
Mathematics is one of the core subjects in education and a critical factor in driving future life success. Thus, understanding how children learn to...
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Outcast
I have already related something of my childhood, of the few happy childhood years passed in the bosom of a family still secure—until overtaken by...
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“That Which a Minority Construct”: Abelian Mathematics in Abel, Galois, Noether, and Grothendieck
This chapter considers the nature of radical transformations of mathematics, enabled by minority mathematics. It will be particularly concerned with...
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Mathematical Tools for Political Decision-Making
This chapter describes the political experience, as ministers or prime ministers with at least master’s degrees in mathematics, of Johanna Wanka...
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The Intimate Interplay Between Experimentation and Deduction: Some Classroom Implications
We understand experimental mathematics as the systematic experimental investigation of concrete examples of a mathematical structure in the search...
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Thomas Archer Hirst: Mathematician Xtravagant
The extensive diaries of Thomas Archer Hirst, Victorian mathematician and educator, tell us much about the scientific and social circles in which he...
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“That Which a Minority Construct”: Abelian Mathematics in Abel, Galois, Noether, and Grothendieck
This chapter considers the nature of radical transformations of mathematics, enabled by minority mathematics. It will be particularly concerned with...