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Heart of Mathematics

Course offered in alternate years. The course will be not offered in 2019-20.

Prerequisite:

Successful completion of two years of mathematics

Description:

This is a course for 11th and 12th grade students. A common answer given by professional mathematicians when describing their subject is that Mathematics is beautiful and that it is everywhere! But this is hardly the view taken by students. This course is designed to illustrate through projects, research and group work that Mathematics is indeed beautiful and Mathematics can be found everywhere. The topics covered in this course include fractals and chaos, recursion, Feigenbaum’s number, the golden section, Fibonacci numbers, elementary topology, prime numbers, types of infinity, the fourth dimension and the theory of special relativity, probability and large data.

Assessment:

exams/tests/quizzes/ homework/projects/ oral presentations