Math 607:Algebraic Structures for Teachers

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General Information

Credit hours: 3

Description: Expands on customary operations on integers and rationals to discuss systems that mimic these operations. Emphasizes multiplicative and additive inverses and their corresponding identities as they occur in other systems. Topics might include permutation groups, rigid transformations, groups of symmetry of the plane and connection to geometry, and matrices treated as linear transformations and connections to solutions of systems of equations.

Prerequisites
Open to in-service teachers of mathematics at middle school level. Others may enroll with permission of instructor.

Notes
Background in mathematics desirable but not necessary. Thorough understanding of high school algebra assumed.

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