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• Models of impulsive phenomena: experiences with writing an interactive textbook

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  János Karsai

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  "Take the textbook to computer" – is said quite often. Would it be so easy? If we start such a work, we meet a lot of trouble very soon. A book stored on a CD, read on the screen of computer and containing some hyperlinks does not become automatically electronic textbook. There are difficulties also in writing merely an electronic attachment to a classical book. In this paper, we deal with some important features (actually important from our point of view) of interactive mathematics textbooks, arising mathematical, didactical and technical problems. The "principles" are illustrated with examples taken from the book-CD "Models of Impulsive Phenomena".

• The first clear distinction between the heuristic conjecture and the deductive proof in the ancient mathematics

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  Lajos Klukovits

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  The mathematics of the ancient river-valley cultures was purely empirical, while the classical Greek mathematics was entirely deductive without any written sign of the heuristic arguments. In the forthcoming Hellenistic period there were significant changes. One of them is that in spite of the rigorous (deductive) proofs some heuristic arguments appeared in separate treatises. We show a nice example due to Archimedes.
  "We have learned from the very pioneers of this science not to have regard to mere plausible imaginings when it is a question of the reasonings to be included in our geometrical doctrine." – Proclus

• Heads or Tails gambling — what can be learned about probability?

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  Attila Máder

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  During the teaching of probability theory, a problem may appear whose solution requires the use of methods that are unfamiliar to secondary school students. In this paper, examples of methods that can resolve this difficulties are demonstrated, which could in future allow school students to tackle and solve a wide variety of problems involving probability.

• Square root in secondary school

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  Zoltán Matos

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  Although in Hungary, for decades, the calculation method of the square root of a real number is not in the mathematics curriculum, many of the taught concepts and procedures can be carried out using different square root finding methods. These provide an opportunity for students in secondary school to practice and deepen understand the compulsory curriculum. This article presents seven square-root- nding methods, currently teachable in secondary schools.

  Subject Classification: A33, A34, F53, F54