Vol. 20 No. 2 (2022)
Articles
Consequences of a virtual encounter with George Pólya
Published
December 7, 2022
https://doi.org/10.5485/TMCS.2022.0531View
Keywords
problem solving mathematical powers specializing and generalizing conjecturing and convincing Moessner's process looking back and reflection Pólya
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Mason, J. (2022). Consequences of a virtual encounter with George Pólya. Teaching Mathematics and Computer Science, 20(2), 173–182. https://doi.org/10.5485/TMCS.2022.0531
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Abstract
The consequences of a virtual encounter with George Pólya as a teacher are recorded. An instance of his influence on my mathematical thinking is recounted through work on one of the problems in one of his books.
Subject Classification: 01A99, 11A05, 97-03, 97D50