Osmosis Mom Posted April 29, 2009 Share Posted April 29, 2009 It is obvious there is a real interest there, but how to take him to the next level? He is a freshman, btw. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
In The Great White North Posted April 29, 2009 Share Posted April 29, 2009 Art of Problem Solving http://www.artofproblemsolving.com/Books/AoPS_B_Item.php?item_id=206 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Osmosis Mom Posted April 29, 2009 Author Share Posted April 29, 2009 Wow, nice book albeit very pricey. Ds would love this! Thanks! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jane in NC Posted April 29, 2009 Share Posted April 29, 2009 Wow, nice book albeit very pricey. Ds would love this! Thanks! You also might want to look at some of the books in the online bookstore of the Mathematical Association of America. Their Anneli Lax series may have some appropriate titles. Here is an idea: a good university library will have some of the MAA titles. Perhaps you can borrow a few? (Our nearest university only charges $15 per year for library privileges.) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Osmosis Mom Posted April 29, 2009 Author Share Posted April 29, 2009 Hmm, it has never occurred to me (in all my years as a homeschooler) to get a university card. Guess I just assumed it would be off-limits. Perhaps I should take advantage of MIT being relatively nearby. Hmmm. Thanks, Jane! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kathy in Richmond Posted April 29, 2009 Share Posted April 29, 2009 Agreeing with the posters who recommended AoPS and MAA books! A nice book to start with is From Zero To Infinity by Constance Reid, available in the MAA bookstore. Has he read The Number Devil? - easy reading, but full of big ideas. How about The Joy of Mathematics or other books by Theoni Pappas? Someone gave me this little gem, Fun with Mathematics, when I was in the fourth grade, and I never looked back... hth, ~Kathy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Janice H Posted April 29, 2009 Share Posted April 29, 2009 Good links and explorations here http://mathforum.org/workshops/usi/pascal/index.html Lots of ways to use or relate mathematical situations to Pascal's triangle. See for example binomial theorem, probability, sequences, series, volume of a cube, options theory, and more. You could spend a long time just playing with the Pascal triangle pattern. There's a lot more free stuff like this on the internet. Math geeks seem to be generous that way. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corraleno Posted April 30, 2009 Share Posted April 30, 2009 The Fractal Foundation website has all kinds of cool stuff, including a free download of the Xaos fractal-generating software: http://fractalfoundation.org/ Jackie Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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