Global Math Project - Seeing Algebra in a Different Light

摘要

Global Math Project is based on James Tanton’s Exploding Dots idea of understanding numbers by visually representing them with dots and boxes. After understanding the concept, the idea can be extended to basic operations with integer numbers or decimals, but also polynomials, infinite sums and even modern unsolved problems. There is an official “Exploding dots” website, with guiding videos, examples and tasks to be completed. There are 9 “islands” to discover, depending on the user’s level of mathematical knowledge. But the author wanted not only to publish a math website and have teachers and students log in and use it, he wanted to make it global, so he organized “Global Math Week” in October 2017, with an estimated target of 1000000 people involved and with an almost double declared audience. For this year, James Tanton’s team is working to raise the number of scholars learning about Exploding dots to ten million.