A CLASSROOM NOTE ON A FORMULA MADE FAMOUS BY A GIFTED ELEMENTARY SCHOOL STUDENT (CARL FRIEDRICH GAUSS)

Skurnick presents a classroom note which involves an elementary application of binomials coefficients and factorials that may provide an instructive extra credit assignment for students in first-semester calculus class. He also discusses the well-known formula for the sum of the first n positive int...

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Published in:Mathematics and computer education 2008-04, Vol.42 (2), p.153
Main Author: Skurnick, Ronald
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Calculus
Gauss, Carl Friedrich (1777-1855)
Normal distribution
Teaching methods
Theorems
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Summary:Skurnick presents a classroom note which involves an elementary application of binomials coefficients and factorials that may provide an instructive extra credit assignment for students in first-semester calculus class. He also discusses the well-known formula for the sum of the first n positive integers which will, in all likelihood, be forever associated with name Carl Friedrich Gauss.
ISSN:0730-8639