Teaching undergraduate mathematics – a problem solving course for first year

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  • who: C Subject Classification and colleagues from the To illustrate this point, we give an example of a problem called the Groundhog Problem which was suggested by a Simon Fraser University professor, Peter Liljedahl in This problem has since been used in our Problem Solving course and has proven to be effective for teaching first year students the concept of countability. Groundhog Problem A groundhog has made an infinite number of holes roughly a metre apart in a straight line in both directions on an infinite plane. Every day it travels a fixed number of holes in . . .

     

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