New Mexico State University Las Cruces, NM 88003 1-575-646-6237 Inna Pivkina Historical Sources as a Teaching Tool New Mexico State University Las Cruces, NM 88003 1-575-646-4600 Desh Ranjan New Mexico State University Las Cruces, NM 88003 1-575-646-2835 Jerry Lodder ipivkina@cs.nmsu.edu dranjan@cs.nmsu.edu jlodder@nmsu.edu SUMMARY The session will introduce participants to curricular modules (projects) based entirely on primary historical source material, developed by an interdisciplinary team of seven computer science and mathematical sciences faculty at New Mexico State University and Colorado State University - Pueblo. More than twenty projects have been developed and are available on the Internet at: http://www.cs.nmsu.edu/historical-projects/ . The projects are intended for courses in discrete mathematics, algorithm design, automata, graph theory, and logic. original sources may show step by step research processes of the author. Reading the source and reproducing experiments which the author did gives students the experience of walking with the researcher, making them familiar with the research process. Often in the words of original author there will be insights into the process of the discovery presented by the discoverer him- or herself. It also gives students a realization that a human being discovered this and they can make discoveries, too. The styles in
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Historical sources as a teaching tool
Pivkina, Inna; Ranjan, Desh; Lodder, Jerry
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Association for Computing Machinery – Mar 4, 2009
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